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A Limia, a district of Ourense

People of A Limia

Women doctors, sculptors, guerrillas, writers and musicians born in A Limia or linked to it: complete biographies with sources, from the Roman world to today.

Scope
People born in or linked to the eleven municipalities
Periods
From the Civitas Limicorum to the 21st century
Entries
One per person, with sources

This section gathers the lives of people born in A Limia or closely linked to it. Each entry rewrites in full what the sources say and cites where each fact comes from [1].

Entries

Antiquity and the Middle Ages

16th to 19th centuries

20th century

Archive

Who is included

People born in one of the eleven municipalities of A Limia (Baltar, Os Blancos, Calvos de Randín, Porqueira, Rairiz de Veiga, Sandiás, Sarreaus, Trasmiras, Vilar de Barrio, Vilar de Santos and Xinzo de Limia) and people from elsewhere whose lives became bound up with the area are included. So are those known only from a trace, such as a Roman pedestal or an entry in a parish book.

Each entry tells the whole life as the sources record it: birth, studies or trade, work, difficult moments and honours. When two sources disagree, the entry gives both versions. For living people only public data of cultural interest is published.

The section grows as the crawled sources are read and rewritten; the most notable lives have their own entry, and the rest will be added with a review date and sources at the foot. Biographies of people repressed in 1936 and the post-war period are handled separately, under the sources’ privacy rule.

How they are organised

Entries are ordered by period and occupation: figures of Antiquity (the Civitas Limicorum and Bishop Hidatius), clergy, soldiers and guerrillas of the Peninsular War, writers, musicians, doctors, artists, and people of the diaspora. Some biographies come from series that are no longer accessible online, which is why they are recorded in full.

FAQ

Who was the first woman doctor in Galicia?

Olimpia Valencia López, born in Baltar on 14 December 1898, graduated in Medicine at Santiago de Compostela in 1925 [2].

Can I propose a person for the section?

Yes. Each person needs at least one citable source; without one the entry cannot be published.

Sources

  1. Edelmiro Martínez Cerredelo, Historia de Xinzo, blog. https://historiadexinzo.wordpress.com/
  2. Alexander de los Ríos Conde, «Olimpia Valencia, la primera médica de Galicia», Vía Lethes, 12/03/2017. https://vialethes.es/olimpia-valencia-medica-galicia

In this topic

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he died while… Notable personElixio Rivas Quintas, Ethnolinguist of Xunqueira de Ambía and First Pedra Alta Prize WinnerElixio Rivas Quintas (Xunqueira de Ambía, 1925) is a Vincentian brother, philologist and ethnolinguist, author of «A Limia: Val da Antela e… Notable personAntonio Rodríguez Colmenero, Archaeologist of Lucenza and Aquis QuerquennisAntonio Rodríguez Colmenero (Lucenza, Cualedro, 1936) is a professor of Ancient History and archaeologist, driving force behind the… Notable personBenito Valencia Bouza, Secretary of the Souto Peasants’ UnionBenito Valencia Bouza (Farnadeiros, Muíños, 1910 – Boado bridge, Xinzo de Limia, 1936) was secretary of the Souto Peasants' Union and a… Notable personFrancisco Sierra Rodríguez, Schoolteacher of Mosteiro de RibeiraFrancisco Sierra Rodríguez (Xinzo de Limia, 1883 – 1936) was a teacher in Mosteiro de Ribeira and vice-president of the Lamas Communist… Notable personCándido Fernández García, Socialist Deputy Mayor of XinzoCándido Fernández García (Xinzo de Limia, c. 1891 – As Maus, 1936) was a socialist, president of the Baronzás Workers' Centre and deputy…

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