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Riobarba is renamed O Vicedo

O Vicedo, Mariña Occidental, Lugo

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Riobarba is renamed O Vicedo

Historical milestone · O Vicedo, Mariña Occidental, Lugo

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The town council of Riobarba, created in 1840, changed its name on that day and moved its capital to the coastal town of Vicedo; the official Galician form, O Vicedo, arrived with the linguistic normalisation law of 1983.

14 de julio de 1952

Photo: Enrique Pernas Rouco (CC BY-SA 2.0)

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