Nueva Galicia
New Galicia
Nueva Galicia Chimalhuacán | |
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| Nuevo Reino de Galicia (in Spanish) New Kingdom of Galicia | |
| Country | Spain |
| Viceroyalty | New Spain |
| Royal Audience | Mexico City Compostela (1548–1560) Guadalajara |
| Capital | Guadalajara |
| Established | c. 1531 |
| Dissolved | 1824 |
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Nuevo Reino de Galicia (New Kingdom of Galicia; Galician: Reino de Nova Galicia) or simply Nueva Galicia (New Galicia, Nova Galicia), known in Nahuatl as Chimalhuacán (‘the land of shield bearers’), was an autonomous kingdom of the Viceroyalty of New Spain. 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.