from the castle Durbeds. Gallaeci tribes us Bracarenses Abobrigenses Aquaflavienses / Aquiflavienses Bracari Bibali Caladuni Coelerni Equaesi Gallaeci Proper / Callaeci Proper Grovii / Grovi Helleni Interamici / Interamnici Leuni Luanqui Lubaeni Limici Narbasi Nemetati Quaquerni / Quarquerni / Querquerni Seurbi Tamagani Turodi / Turodes Lucenses Adovi / Iadovi Albiones Arroni Arrotrebae / Artabri Baedi Capori / Copori Celtici Praestamarici Celtici Supertamarici Cibarci / Cabarci Cileni / Celeni Egi / Egovarri / Varri Namarini Lemavi Nerii / Neri Seurri Other minor groups Aebocosi Amphilochi Artodii Aunonenses Banienses Barhantes Brassii Brigantes (Gallaecian tribe) Cuci Iadones Lapatianci Louguei Naebisoci / Aebisoci Namarii Poemani Segodii Tongobrigenses Pomponius Mela, who described the Galician seashore and their dwellers around 40 AD, divided the coastal Gallaeci in non-Celtic Grovii along the southern areas; the Celtic peoples who lived along the Rías Baixas and Costa da Morte regions in northern Galicia; and the also Celtic Artabri who dwelled all along the northern coast in between the latter and the Astures. Origin of the name The Romans named the entire region north of the Douro, where the Castro culture existed, in honour of the castro people that settled in the area of Calle — the Callaeci. The Romans established a port in the south of the region which they called Portus Calle, today's Porto, in northern Portugal. When the Romans first conquered the Callaeci they ruled them as part of the province of Lusitania but later created a new province of Callaecia () or Gallaecia. The names "Callaici" and "Calle" are the origin of today's Gaia, Galicia, and the "Gal" root in "Portugal", among many other placenames in the region. Gallaecian language Gallaecian was a Q-Celtic language or group of languages or dialects, closely related to Celtiberian, spoken at the beginning of our era in the north-western quarter of the Iberian Peninsula, more specifically between the west and north Atlantic coasts and an imaginary line running north–south and linking Oviedo and Mérida. Just like it is the case for Illyrian or Ligurian languages, its corpus is composed by isolated words and short sentences contained in local Latin inscriptions, or glossed by classic authors, together with a considerable number of names – anthroponyms, ethnonyms, theonyms, toponyms – contained in inscriptions, or surviving up to date as place, river or mountain names. Besides, many of the isolated words of Celtic origin preserved in the local Romance languages could have been