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The Iberian Peninsula, where Galicia is located, has been inhabited for at least 500,000 years, first by Neanderthals and then by modern humans. From about 4500 BC, it (like much of the north and west of the peninsula) was inhabited by a megalithic culture, which entered the Bronze Age about 1500 BC.
The first written references about the ruins can be found in the archaeological notes of Ramón López García (1864) and also in Manuel Murguía’s work History of Galicia (1888), in which he draws a link between the ruins and the Celtic Gaul tribes. In 1912, the Pro-Monte Society of Santa Tecla was created in A Guarda.
Category: Archaeological sites in Galicia (Spain) 8 languages. Català ...
Ruins of the houses of the Castro of Coaña, next to Coaña . Castro of Fazouro, Foz, . View of the northern side of the Castro of Santa Tegra, in the Mount of Santa Tegra, (municipality of A Guarda, Galicia). A castro is a fortified settlement, usually pre-Roman, some from late Bronze Age and Iron Age, associated with Celtic culture.
Celtic naked warrior of the Braganza Brooch or fibula, gold (Norte Region, Portugal) Gold torc from Burela (Galicia, Spain). Castro culture (Galician: cultura castrexa, Portuguese: cultura castreja, Asturian: cultura castriega, Spanish: cultura castreña, meaning "culture of the hillforts") is the archaeological term for the material culture of the northwestern regions of the Iberian Peninsula ...
Ancient (bracketed) and modern places in the Iberian Peninsula which have names containing the Celtic elements -brigā or -bris < -brixs 'hill, hillfort'. The Celtic toponymy of Galicia is the whole of the ancient or modern place, river, or mountain names which were originated inside a Celtic language, and thus have Celtic etymology, and which are or were located inside the limits of modern ...
The name Galicia derives from the Latin toponym Callaecia, later Gallaecia, related to the name of an ancient Celtic tribe that resided north of the Douro river, the Gallaeci or Callaeci in Latin, or Καλλαϊκoί (Kallaïkoí) in Greek. [17] These Callaeci were the first tribe in the area to help the Lusitanians against the invading Romans.
Stater coin, of Alexander the Great (336-323 BC) from Trepcza/ n. Sanok. The region has a turbulent history. In Roman times the region was populated by various tribes of Celto-Germanic admixture, including Celtic-based tribes – like the Galice or "Gaulics" and Bolihinii or "Volhynians" – the Lugians and Cotini of Celtic, Vandals and Goths of Germanic origins (the Przeworsk and Púchov ...