[Mortality in Galicia, 1600-1850]

The author's goal is to determine the influence of the death rate on the demography of Galicia, a region located in the north-west of the Iberian peninsula, during the Ancien Régime. From this viewpoint, he examines the general characteristics of mortality as well as the chronology, intensity and nature of the different waves of mortality from 1600 to 1850. He also presents a rough outline of the fall in Galicia's death rate, by comparing the results obtained at various levels with those from other regions of Spain as well as Europe. This paper is meant to complement the efforts of all researchers interested in the "geography of death" in modern Europe.