New Galicia
Nueva Galicia | |
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Nuevo Reino de Galicia (in Spanish) New Kingdom of Galicia | |
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Royal Audience | Mexico City Compostela (1548–1560) Guadalajara |
Capital | Guadalajara |
Established | c. 1531 |
Dissolved | 1824 |
Nuevo Reino de Galicia (New Kingdom of Galicia; Galician: Reino de Nova Galicia) or simply Nueva Galicia (New Galicia, Nova Galicia) was an autonomous kingdom of the Viceroyalty of New Spain.[1] It was named after Galicia in Spain. Nueva Galicia's territory consisted of the present-day Mexican states of Aguascalientes, Guanajuato, Colima, Jalisco, Nayarit and Zacatecas.[2]