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Ribeira receives city status

Ribeira, Barbanza, A Coruña

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Ribeira receives city status

Historical milestone · Ribeira, Barbanza, A Coruña

Image of Ribeira, not of the place itself.

Alfonso XIII granted the title of city to Santa Uxía de Ribeira, municipal capital since 1836 and by then already a great fishing port of the comarca; in 1820 separate concellos had come to exist at Carreira, Olveira, Palmeira and Ribeira.

23 de marzo de 1906

Photo: Luis Miguel Bugallo Sánchez (Lmbuga) (CC BY-SA 3.0)

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