Is there any relationship between the 2 Galicias?

Ana M. Kurland

<< Is there any relationship between the 2 Galicias? >>

==Actually, in 1966 when the Israeli novelist Shai Agnon (Disclosure--a loose
appendage to my family tree) received the Nobel Price for Literature, the
Swedes reporting correctly that he had been born, as S.J. Czchazchkes in
Galitzia, the New York Times published a dispatch >from its reporter in Madrid
stating categorically that no one in Galicia had ever heard of him <g>.


Michael Bernet, New York

seeking:
BERNET, BERNAT, BAERNET, BERNERTH etc >from Frensdorf, Bamberg, Nurnberg
KONIGSHOFER: Welbhausen, Konigshofen, Furth
ALTMANN: Kattowitz, Breslau, Poznan, Beuthen--Upper Silesia/Poland
WOLF: Frankfurt (Aron Wolf m. Babette Goldschmidt ca 1855) also in Wurzburg,
also Sali WOLF, Rotterdam

Actually, there's another theory...There are other Galicias, also in
Eurasia - it's quite possible that the common name indicates a calling card
of the Goths/Visigoths of the so-called dark ages, i.e., after the final
fall of Rome and the Carolingian period.
Lewis Baratz
Simon Barak wrote:

None whatsoever. Galicia in Poland-Austria-Ukraine is a mispronuntation
of Haliz, the first prince and founder of the county. Galicia in Spain
is derived >from latin (Gallia, Gaul = France)

Ana Kurland wrote:

Is there any relationship between the 2 Galicias?

Ana M. Kurland

Simon Barak

Actually, the Goths/Visigoths/Ostrogoths are not good candidates. These
names were present in Europe before Goths (in their various flavors, but
all Germanic) descended south. Since Gauls are Celts, Celts (which
inhabited most of Europe before Germanic peoples arrived and displaced
them) are a much better bet for the origin of Gaul, Gallipoli, Galicia, and
other such names.

The ascription of Polish "Galicia" to the name of an ancient noblemen is
apocryphal, and in the same class as the association of "Krakow" with a
dragon legend.

-> Actually, there's another theory...There are other Galicias, also in
-> Eurasia - it's quite possible that the common name indicates a calling card
-> of the Goths/Visigoths of the so-called dark ages, i.e., after the final
-> fall of Rome and the Carolingian period.

-> Simon Barak wrote:
-> >None whatsoever. Galicia in Poland-Austria-Ukraine is a mispronuntation
-> >of Haliz, the first prince and founder of the county. Galicia in Spain
-> >is derived >from latin (Gallia, Gaul = France)
-> >
-> >Ana Kurland wrote:
-> >> Is there any relationship between the 2 Galicias?


Stan Goodman
Qiryat Tiv'on, Israel

MODERATOR NOTE: End of thread, please continue privately.