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Monforte de Lemos
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About Monforte de Lemos
Monforte de Lemos is a city and municipality in northwestern Spain, in the province of Lugo, Galicia. It covers a place of 200 km² and lies 62 km from Lugo. As of 2005 it had a populace of 19,472. Monforte de Lemos is positioned in a valley among the rivers Minho and Sil. The river Cabe, a tributary of Sil, runs via the town. It is the middle of the place referred to as Terra de Lemos and capital of the place referred to as Ribeira Sacra or Terras de Lemos. The area around the city has been inhabited on account that lengthy earlier than the Roman career, as testified by excavations of sites dating to the Bronze Age.
The records of Monforte de Lemos is going back to the Paleolithic, and its first acknowledged inhabitants were the Oestrimnios. This length changed into called the "castrexa" or the culture of the forts, normal of the Celtic tribes. The tribe that populated Monforte became known as the Lemavi tribe, and the primary written references to them date from the Roman historians Pliny the Elder and Strabo, among 600 and 900 BC. The Lemavi have been centered on the hill of San Vicente.
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