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Alfonso III (Alfonso the Great) was King of Leon, Galicia and Asturias. He was born in 848 and died in 910. He was an intrepid champion of Christendom against the Moors in Spain. He succeeded his father, Ordono I in 866. In a succession of hard-fought campaigns he extended his rule over Old Castile and part of Portugal. Popular discontent, represented by his son Garcias in 888, and later by his queen, forced him to abdicate in favour of his three sons, but a Moorish invasion recalled him to power.
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Chasidim or Pietists was the name of a Jewish sect which appeared in the middle of the 18th century. Its adherents were strongly inclined to mysticism, depreciated the Old Testament and its ordinances, believed in extraordinary cures, etc. They were most numerous in Russian Poland, Romania, and some parts of Galicia and Hungary, and were regarded with great antipathy by the orthodox Jews. Chasidim is also the name given to a sect which sprang up about the 2nd century BC. This party is credited with the origin of the revolt of the Maccabees, with combating the erroneous notions bred among the Jews by the study of Grecian philosophy, and with being the parent stock of the Pharisees.
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Joseph Bern was a Polish soldier. He was born in 1795 at Tarnow, in Galicia and died at Aleppo in 1850. His first service was in the French expedition against Russia in 1812. He served in the Polish army in the revolution of 1830, after which he proceeded to Paris, where for the next sixteen years he continued to reside, occupying himself partly with political schemes and partly with scientific pursuits. In 1848 he joined the Hungarian army, and in the following year obtained several successes against the Austrians and Russians; but after the defeat at Temesvar he retired into Turkey, where he embraced Islam and was made a pasha.
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Stanislas I was king of Poland. He was born in 1677 at Lemberg, Galicia and died in 1766. The son of Raphael Leszczynski, he was made palatine of Pose by Augustus II. When Charles XI of Sweden declared war against Poland, Stanislas I was elected as a representative at the congress of Warsaw, in 1704. Charles XII supported his claims to the throne of Poland, and he was crowned on October the 7th 1705. In 1712 he was forced to flee to Bessarabia, but was recalled in 1733. By the treaty of Vienna of 1738, he renounced all claims to the throne of Poland, although he was permitted to keep the title of king. He was given the duchies of Bar and Lorraine.
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The Battle of Dunajetz occurred in April 1915, during the Great War when the Russians held a line on the Dunajetz river against a large German force assembled for an attack on Galicia. The Austrians broke the Russian line in the Gorlitz area to the south of the river in early May and although the Dunajetz sector initially held strong, they were eventually forced to fall back because of the Russian collapse in the south. The Austrians and Germans advanced along the entire front for the next two weeks until the Russians halted them at a line on the San river.
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The Battle of Maracesti was a defeat of Austro-German force by combined Russian and Romanian forces in August 1917 during the Great War. After defeating the Russians in Galicia in 1916, the German general von Mackensen advanced toward Maracesti, an important railway junction. He was stopped close to the town by a strong Russo- Romanian force and the battle continued for some days. Bolshevik agitators subverted the Russian troops who abandoned the defences and ran. However, by this time Romanian reinforcements were arriving and in spite of heavy fighting defeated Mackensen's force and prevented him from taking Moldavia.
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The Capture of Tarnopol was an Austro-German victory during the Great War in July 1917. After the fighting around Brzezany in early July 1917, which resulted in Brzezany remaining in Austro-German control, the Russian offensive in the area was held up, and on July the 19th 1917 the Austro-Germans started a counter-offensive.
The first Austro-German attacks were repulsed, but at ten o'clock on July the 19th the 6th Grenadier Division of the 11th Russian Army deserted en masse leaving a 40 km long gap in the Russian line. Brusiloff, who had arrived in Tarnopol, had ordered Korniloff on the previous day to take over the chief command of the southern Group of armies from Gutor, but time was wasted with poor communications.
The Austro-Germans attacked on July the 20th in the direction of Tarnopol and towards the south along the Strypa and were met with a disenchanted Russian force whose soldiers disobeyed orders and withdrew, resulting in a Russian withdraw from Galicia.
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The Galicia Virus is an encrypted computer virus which infects the fixed disk partition table. The virus is loaded into memory by executing an infected program and then affects the computer's runtime operation and corrupts program or overlay files.
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Tetilla is a Spanish, traditional farmhouse and creamery semi-soft cheese made from cow's milk in the Galicia region.
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Ulloa is a Spanish, traditional farmhouse semi-soft natural rind cheese made from cow's milk from the Galicia and Friesan breeds in the Galicia region.
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