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Pol is a municipality in the province of Lugo,
Galicia, Spain Galicia (; gl, Galicia or ; es, Galicia}; pt, Galiza) is an autonomous community of Spain and historic nationality under Spanish law. Located in the northwest Iberian Peninsula, it includes the provinces of A Coruña, Lugo, Ourense, and P ...
. Its capital is Mosteiro. It has been historically linked to the arrival in Galicia of Briton immigrants in the Dark Ages period (see Bishop
Maeloc __NOTOC__ Mailoc or Maeloc was a 6th-century bishop of Britonia, a settlement founded by expatriate Britons (historical), Britons in Galicia (Spain), Galicia, Spain.Koch, John T. (2006). "Britonia". In John T. Koch, ''Celtic Culture: A Historical ...
and
Britonia Britonia (which became Bretoña in Galician and Spanish) is the historical, apparently Latinized name of a Celtic settlement by Romano-Britons on the Iberian peninsula following the Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain. The area is roughly analogous ...
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Municipalities in the Province of Lugo {{Galicia-geo-stub