The Nerii were an ancient
Gallaecia
Gallaecia, also known as Hispania Gallaecia, was the name of a Roman province in the north-west of Hispania, approximately present-day Galicia, northern Portugal, Asturias and Leon and the later Kingdom of Gallaecia. The Roman cities included ...
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Celtic
Celtic, Celtics or Keltic may refer to:
Language and ethnicity
*pertaining to Celts, a collection of Indo-European peoples in Europe and Anatolia
**Celts (modern)
*Celtic languages
**Proto-Celtic language
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tribe, living in the north of modern
Galicia, in the
Costa da Morte
Costa da Morte (; es, Costa de la Muerte; "Death Coast") is part of the Galician coast. The Costa da Morte extends from the villages of Muros and Malpica.
The Costa da Morte received its name because there have been so many shipwrecks along it ...
region. Celtici Nerii are mentioned for the first time on a tombstone on the grave of a Galician nerio called Tássionos, in a Tartessian inscription from the Bronze Age.
.1.1‘Fonte Velha 6’ lokooboo niiraboo too araiai kaaltee lokoo, n
ane narkee kaakiisiin, koolobo, o ii te’-e.ro-baar, e(be)e tea, siioonii
‘invoking the Lugoues of the Neri people, for a nobleman of the
Celtae/Galtai
Galicia: he rests still within; invoking every hero, the grave of
Tasiioonos has received him.’ See John T. Koch A Case For Tartessian as a Celtic Language. ActPal X = PalHisp 9, 344.
See also
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Pre-Roman peoples of the Iberian Peninsula
This is a list of the pre-Roman people of the Iberian Peninsula (the Roman Hispania, i. e., modern Portugal, Spain and Andorra). Some closely fit the concept of a people, ethnic group or tribe. Others are confederations or even unions of tri ...
External links
Detailed map of the Pre-Roman Peoples of Iberia (around 200 BC)
Tribes of Gallaecia
Galician Celtic tribes
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