Nendos or Nemitos was the name of a historic Galician county in northern
Galicia. Its existence is documented from the 6th century in the
Suebic Kingdom of Galicia
The Kingdom of the Suebi ( la, Regnum Suevorum), also called the Kingdom of Galicia ( la, Regnum Galicia) or Suebi Kingdom of Galicia ( la, Galicia suevorum regnum), was a Germanic post-Roman kingdom that was one of the first to separate from ...
, but due to its etymology, -derived from the
Celtic 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 with traditional hierarchical structure, including Western Christianity and Eastern Christianity. In general, an ecclesiastical province consists of seve ...
in Galicia.
Kingdom of the Suebi
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