#3 Santiago de Compostela (also Saint James of Compostela) is the capital of the autonomous community of Galicia. The city's Cathedral is the destination today, as it has been throughout history, of the important 9th century medieval pilgrimage route, the Way of St. James (Galician: Camiño de Santiago, Spanish: Camino de Santiago). Folk etymology for the name "Compostela" is that it comes from the Latin "Campus Stellae" (i.e. Stars Field), but it is unlikely such a phonetic evolution takes account of normal evolution from Latin to Galician-Portuguese. A more probable etymology relates the word with Latin "compositum", and local Vulgar Latin "Composita Tella", meaning "burial ground" as a euphemism.
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[Sun Star] The body of a New People's Army militant who had been left behind by his comrades was discovered in a remote village in Compostela Valley. The corpse was discovered by villagers amid thick vegetation Wednesday at Sitio Totoy, Monkayo. Lieutenant General Aurelio Baladad said the NPA guerilla was left behind after a clash with troops from the 25th Infantry Battalion.