Lusitanic definitions of "Lusitanic" or "Lusitanian" may include medieval-to-modern Galicia, because the Portuguese people and Galician people share close linguistic and cultural ties, including pre-Roman Celtic ones. Modern Portuguese and the Galician language both derive from medieval Galician-Portuguese, and the term is a cultural classification more than a historic–geographical definition. Although, in Ancient Roman times, the Gallaeci were not part of Lusitania province, what became the Galician-Portuguese language developed from Vulgar Latin in Gallaecia, which comprised what is now Galicia, as well as north Portugal, the center of the development of post-Roman Portuguese culture. Later Portuguese use of the name "Lusitania"
RMS Lusitania 1,962 passengers and crew aboard "Lusitania" at the time of the sinking, 1,198 lost their lives. As in the sinking of "Titanic", most of the casualties were from drowning or hypothermia. In the hours after the sinking, acts of heroism amongst both the survivors of the sinking and the Irish rescuers who had heard word of "Lusitania"s distress signals brought the survivor count to 764, three of whom later died from injuries sustained during the sinking. A British cruiser , which had heard of the sinking only a short time after "Lusitania" was struck, left her anchorage in Cork Harbour