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Galahad
Galahad, also spelled Galaad, is a knight of the Round Table in Arthurian legend, son of Lancelot, first appearing in the thirteenth-century Vulgate Cycle as the knight who achieves the Holy Grail.
Galai Patera
Galai Patera is an IAU-approved volcanic depression (patera) on Jupiter's moon Io, about 105-122 km across, centered at 10.87 degrees south, 288.11 degrees west, named for a Mongol fire god in 1979.
Galaktion Tabidze
Galaktion Tabidze, known as Galaktioni, was a Georgian poet whose work is regarded as a defining achievement of twentieth-century Georgian lyric poetry; he died in 1959.
Galal Yafai
Galal Yafai, Birmingham flyweight boxer, Tokyo 2020 Olympic gold medallist (beat Carlo Paalam 4-1), Rio 2016 Olympian, 2018 Commonwealth champion, brother of Kal and Gamal Yafai, later WBC interim flyweight champion with Matchroom.
Galanin
Galanin is a 29-amino-acid neuropeptide (30 in humans), isolated from porcine intestine at the Karolinska Institute in 1983, that modulates neurotransmission and endocrine secretion through the receptors GalR1, GalR2, and GalR3.
Galanin message associated peptide (GMAP)
Galanin message associated peptide (GMAP), also called galanin message-associated peptide, is a 59-61 amino acid neuropeptide from the C-terminus of preprogalanin, with rat spinal flexor reflex and antifungal Candida activity.
Galanin-like peptide
Galanin-like peptide (GALP) is a 60-amino-acid hypothalamic neuropeptide discovered in 1999, homologous to galanin at residues 9-21, binding GalR1-3, regulating feeding, energy expenditure, and reproduction, and encoding alarin by alternative splicing.
Galantamine
Galantamine (galanthamine), a plant-derived acetylcholinesterase inhibitor from snowdrop (Galanthus), treats mild to moderate Alzheimer's symptoms; FDA-approved 2001 as Razadyne, formerly Nivalin and Reminyl.
Galanthus
Galanthus, snowdrops, is a genus of about 19 bulbous Amaryllidaceae species native from Europe to western Asia, flowering in late winter; all species are CITES Appendix II listed, with large wild bulb exports of G. woronowii and G. elwesii.
Galanthus nivalis
Galanthus nivalis, the common snowdrop, is a bulbous perennial of the amaryllis family native to Europe from the Pyrenees to Ukraine, whose nodding white flowers appear in late winter and early spring.
Galantis
Galantis is a Swedish electronic dance music project, originally the duo of Christian Karlsson (Miike Snow, Bloodshy) and Linus Eklöw (Style of Eye), known for "Runaway (U & I)", "No Money", and "Heartbreak Anthem", and led by Karlsson since Eklöw's departure around 2020–2021.
Galápagos (novel)
Galápagos is Kurt Vonnegut's 1985 satirical novel (Delacorte Press, 295 pages) in which apocalypse survivors on the Galápagos Islands, narrated by ghost Leon Trout, become ancestors of seal-like future humans.
Galápagos fur seal
Galápagos fur seal (Arctocephalus galapagoensis, Lobo fino de Galápagos), an endangered otariid endemic to the Galápagos Islands; about 10,000 mature individuals, night-foraging, El Niño-vulnerable, protected since the 1930s.
Galápagos Islands
The Galápagos Islands, an Ecuadorian volcanic archipelago about 1,000 km offshore, also called the Enchanted Islands, host extreme endemism, a 133,000 km² marine reserve, and the wildlife that inspired Darwin's theory of evolution.
Galapagos penguin
Galapagos penguin (Spheniscus mendiculus, Pingüino de Galápagos): the smallest banded penguin and the only penguin breeding partly north of the equator, endemic to the Galapagos Islands, IUCN Endangered, dependent on the Cromwell Current and vulnerable to El Niño.
Galápagos Province
Galápagos Province (Provincia de Galápagos), Ecuador's insular province created in 1973 with capital Puerto Baquerizo Moreno, operates under a special constitutional regime and the 2015 Organic Law, governed by a Governing Council; 28,583 residents across three cantons.
Galapagos shark
Galapagos shark (Carcharhinus galapagensis), a large requiem shark of oceanic islands worldwide; described 1905, viviparous, IUCN Near Threatened (2003) with local declines from fishing.
Galápagos tortoise
Galápagos tortoise (tortuga gigante de las Galápagos), giant Chelonoidis tortoises endemic to Ecuador's Galápagos Islands; 15 species, domed and saddleback forms, 20,000–25,000 wild today after exploitation killed 100,000–200,000; Floreana hybrids reintroduced 2026.
Galata
Galata: historic Istanbul neighborhood in Beyoğlu on the north bank of the Golden Horn, also known as Genoese Pera. Known for the 1348 Galata Tower, Ottoman-era trade and diplomacy, and intense modern gentrification and Airbnb-driven tourism.
Galata Bridge
Galata Bridge (Galata Köprüsü) is a 490 m double-deck bascule bridge in Istanbul carrying road, tram, and pedestrian traffic across the Golden Horn between Eminönü and Karaköy since 1992.
Galata Tower
Galata Tower, known in Turkish as Galata Kulesi, is a medieval stone tower in Istanbul built by the Genoese in 1348 as a fortified entrance to their colony.
Galatasaray High School
Galatasaray High School (Galatasaray Lisesi, Mekteb-i Sultani) is a public Turkish-French boarding high school in Istanbul's Beyoğlu, founded in 1481, reorganized 1868, now an education unit of Galatasaray University.
Galatasaray S.K. (football)
Galatasaray S.K. (Cimbom), Istanbul football club founded 1905 by Ali Sami Yen at Galatasaray High School; 23 Turkish league titles, 18 cups, and the only Turkish winner of a major UEFA trophy (2000 UEFA Cup, Super Cup).
Galatasaray S.K. (men's basketball)
Galatasaray men's basketball section, founded 1911 at Galatasaray High School; 18 Turkish championships, 2016 EuroCup winner, 2025 BCL runner-up, playing at Basketbol Gelişim Merkezi in Istanbul.
Galatea
Galatea (S/1989 N4) is a small inner moon of Neptune, about 100 km across, discovered by Voyager 2 in July 1989. It orbits in 10 hours 18 minutes and its 43:42 resonances confine Neptune's ring arcs; JWST found clay minerals on it.
Galatea (mythological statue)
Galatea (Γαλάτεια) is the post-classical name given to Pygmalion's ivory statue, brought to life by Venus in Ovid's Metamorphoses 10.243-297. Unnamed in antiquity, the name was popularized by Rousseau's 1762 Pygmalion and is distinct from the Nereid sea-nymph Galatea.
Galateo
Galateo is a treatise on polite behavior by Giovanni Della Casa, published posthumously in Venice in 1558, whose title gave Italian the word for good manners.
Galaţi (city)
Galați (Galatz), city in eastern Romania on the left bank of the lower Danube near the Siret and Prut confluences; largest Danube river-maritime port, main steel center (ArcelorMittal), 2021 census 217,851, domicile population 288,873 in 2026.
Galaţi (district)
Galați County (județul Galați), NUTS 3 RO224, southeastern Romania at the Danube–Siret–Prut confluence; seat Galați city; 486,387 residents (2026), steel and shipbuilding economy, EU just-transition territory.
Galatia (Γαλατία)
Galatia (Γαλατία), central Anatolian region settled by Gaulish tribes 278–277 BC and Roman province created by Augustus in 25 BC after Amyntas's death, capital Ancyra, later merged with Cappadocia.