Galicia is an autonomous community and historical nationality in modern-day northwestern Spain on the Iberian Peninsula, which was a major part of the Roman province known as Gallaecia prior to 409. It consists of the provinces of A Coruña, Lugo, Ourense and Pontevedra. It is bounded on the north by the Cantabrian Sea, to the south by Portugal, to the west by the Atlantic Ocean and to the east by principality of Asturias and the community of Castile and León. The archipelago of the Cíes Islands, the Ons archipelago, the Sálvora archipelago and other island such as Cortegada, Arousa, the Sisargas Islands and the Malveiras Islands are also part of Galicia. Galicia has about 2,795,422 inhabitants which mainly combines the coastal strip between Ferrol and A Coruña in the northwest and between Vilagarcía de Arousa and Vigo in the southwest. The medieval and modern Kingdom of Galicia derived of the kingdom of the Suebi, founded by king Hermeric in 409. By the 6th century the kingdom of the Suebi was already known as the Kingdom of Galicia, Gregory of Tours being the first chronicler to use this denomination. Suebic Kings (409–585) First Royal Dynasty (409–456) Hermeric (409–438) Rechila (438–448) Rechiar (448–456) Aioulf (456–457) Kings during a Suebic Civil War (457–469) Note: the civil war split the kingdom, and multiple kings ruled smaller regions of Galicia. Maldras (457–460) Framta (457) Richimund (457–464) Frumar (460–464) Remismund (464–469) - reunification Dark Period (469–550) Hermeneric Veremund Theodemund Final Suevic Period (550–585) Chararic (550–558) Ariamir (558–561) Theodemar (561–570) Miro or Mirón (570–583) Eboric, or Euric (583–584) Andeca (584–585) Malaric (585) Visigothic Kings (585-712) The Visigoth kings took control of Galicia in 585, which became the sixth province of the Kingdom of Toledo. Galicia maintained a distinguishable administrative and legal identity up to the collapse of the Visigothic monarchy. Liuvigild (585–586) Reccared I (586–601) Liuva II (601–603) Witteric (603–610) Gundemar (610–612) Sisebut (612–621) Reccared II (621) Suintila (621–631) Sisenand (631–636) Chintila (636–640) Tulga (640–641) Chindasuinth (641–653) Reccesuinth (649–672) Wamba (672–680) Erwig (680–687) Egica, (687–702) - secured his son Wittiza as his heir Wittiza (694-710) - associated to the throne as king in Galicia until 702; only king after his father's death Roderic (710–712) Asturian kings (740-910) In 740, Alfonso I of Asturias captured Galicia from the Muslims. Alfonso I of Asturias (740–757) Fruela I of Asturias (757–768) Aurelius of Asturias (768–774) Silo of Asturias (774–783) Mauregatus