Nendos or Nemitos was the name of a historic Galician territory in northwest
Galicia. Its existence is documented from the 6th century in the
Suebic Kingdom of Galicia
The Kingdom of the Suebi (), also called the Kingdom of Galicia () or Suebi Kingdom of Galicia (), was a Germanic post-Roman kingdom that was one of the first to separate from the Roman Empire. Based in the former Roman provinces of Gallaecia ...
,
but due to its etymology, -derived from the
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
*Celtic music
*Celtic nations
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name ''Nemeton'', there are insidious of its existence in pre-Roman times. Nendos is still an
ecclesiastical province
An ecclesiastical province is one of the basic forms of jurisdiction in Christian churches, including those of both Western Christianity and Eastern Christianity, that have traditional hierarchical structures. An ecclesiastical province consist ...
in Galicia.
References
Kingdom of the Suebi
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