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The mountain is regarded as mythical place. Several legends are related to celts which occupied the area in ancient times. It is said the mountain was their Mount
Olympos where they made sacrifices. The lush nature connects the place to fertility, which has encouraged pilgrimage of couples wishing to
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The particular geomorphology of Mount Pindo, full of reliefs in granite bowls, inspired many stories and legends of deities, carvings, or mythical monsters and giants, including some on the river Xallas, because the waterfall Ézaro fall by its waters directly on the salt water of the sea. It found
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may arise from the dialect of Gaelic Celtic spoken in the area before the
Romanization of Gallaecia: Binn (Irish Gaelic) or beinn (Gaelic) (literally tip or apex) and dubh (adjective to describe something dark). Binn Dubh (pindub) amount after Pindo. The Romans gave, however, the name of Celtic
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Stanford University in the US: James J. Duran, Ph. D. (Séamas Direáin O), or licensed in Geography and History from the University of Santiago de Compostela: Alberto Villaverde Lake and more than Henrique Egea Lapina, graduated in Classical
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In Irish Gaelic, however, the sound represented by the letter b retains its voicing. Thus, the sound is quite similar to a
Galician b /b/ in word-initial position. This, however, can be deceptive in the written languages, since the Galician b lenites to a soft sound like /v/ in word-medial or
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In the tenth century
Sisnando (bishop of Iria Flavia) ordered the construction of the Castle of St. George on the shores of the mountain as protection against pirate attacks medieval. Several noble families of Galicia inhabited until the castle was destroyed in 1467 in Irmandiñas Revolutions.
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In this environment would be other two castles, but one that does not retain material remains determinants or documentation parsable more than a Latin inscription on a stone isolated: Kings, bishops, priests, by all powers received from God, this castle here excomungaron
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ordered a castle to be built on slopes of the mountain to protect the area from attacks from the sea. The castle was occupied by several noble families of
Galicia until it was destroyed in the 1467 war. After that treasure hunters have destroyed the remaining walls.
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Galicia has always been considered a land occupied by the ancestors of the local inhabitants over countless generations, without massive immigration of outsiders, a large number of Galician place-names should reflect similar descriptive toponyms.
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Place-names often reflect the topographic features characteristic of a given area, and such descriptive place-names are common in the indigenous languages of the different areas of the world.
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The authors also provide several examples of physically similar to the hills of Carnot and called exactly that way in both
Ireland (Monte Binn Dubh), as in Scotland (Beinn Dubh Monte).
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Another fort on the mountain was called Peñafiel: there have also been hermitages, wells and paths. During the
Spanish Civil War mountain was used as a refuge to escape from the enemy.
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This inscription refers to excommunication that in 1130 launched the archbishop GelmĂrez against Earl Lock, to have prisoner in his castle to the
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special area of conservation of Monte Pindo and Carnota. The area covers 4674 hectares. A number or rare animals live in the area, including
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