Edit: After WWII, Russia took polish lands east of the Curzon Line for itself, effectively keeping what it was promised through the Ribbenthrop-Molotov pact. Part of those lands was East Galicia.
Thanks, I did google it to make sure, after writing the funny comment. Apparently it’s a coincidence that the names are the same, the Polish name is the Latin version of its capital city, Halych, which is derived from the Easter Slavic word for a bird. In Spanish the region is Galitzia, to distinguish the names and to imitate how a polish would pronounce it I guess.
Spanish name is its evolution from the Latin Gallaeicia, the specific celtic people in the region.
I should have edited the comment after the research so that it’s a funny without being misinformation, though.
Fun fact: there is a similarly named region in Turkey, Galatia, that has a similar etymology as spanish Galicia. Galatia is called Galatia for the Gauls that lived there. Also celts but other celts.
What has Galicia, the Spaniard coastal autonomous community have anything to do with this?
There is another.
Edit: After WWII, Russia took polish lands east of the Curzon Line for itself, effectively keeping what it was promised through the Ribbenthrop-Molotov pact. Part of those lands was East Galicia.
Thanks, I did google it to make sure, after writing the funny comment. Apparently it’s a coincidence that the names are the same, the Polish name is the Latin version of its capital city, Halych, which is derived from the Easter Slavic word for a bird. In Spanish the region is Galitzia, to distinguish the names and to imitate how a polish would pronounce it I guess.
Spanish name is its evolution from the Latin Gallaeicia, the specific celtic people in the region.
I should have edited the comment after the research so that it’s a funny without being misinformation, though.
Fun fact: there is a similarly named region in Turkey, Galatia, that has a similar etymology as spanish Galicia. Galatia is called Galatia for the Gauls that lived there. Also celts but other celts.