The Callaici or callaeci were a single or various tribes living in the North of Douro River in Northern Portugal and Galicia (Spain). The Romans named the entier region north of that river, where the Castro culture existed, in honour of the Castro people that settled in the area of Calle - the Callaeci, later the Roman Portus Calle, today's Porto.[1] Thus, a Roman province, known as Callaecia, was later created. View of the river mouth from Portos Crystal Palace Gardens, facing West Douro (Latin Durius, Spanish Duero, Portuguese Douro) is one of the major rivers of Portugal and Spain, flowing from its source near Soria across central Spain and Portugal to its outlet at Oporto. ... Galicia (Spain) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Castros de Baroña, Baroña, Porto Do Son, Coruña Castro de Troña, PÃas, Ponteareas, Pontevedra Castro culture (Cultura Castreja in Portuguese, Cultura Castrexa in Galician and Cultura castreña in Spanish) is the archaeologists descriptor for the culture of the northwestern part of the Iberian Peninsula...
The names "Callaici" and "Calle" are the origin of today's: Gaia, Galicia, and the "Gal" radial in Portugal. The meaning of "Calle" is however not fully know, see Portugal naming. Vila Nova de Gaia is a city and municipality of Portugal. ... The History of Portugal is that of an ancient European nation, whose present origins go back to the Early Middle Ages, that ascended to a great world power in the Age of Discoveries with its vast Empire. ...
Sameiro (2535 ft.), crowned by a colossal statue of the Virgin Mary, and commanding a magnificent view of the mountainous country which culminates in the Serra do Gerez, on the north-
of the Callaici Bracarii, or Bracarenses, a tribe who occupied what is now Galicia and northern Portugal.
Early in the 5th century it was taken by the Suevi; but about 485 it passed into the hands of the Visigothic conquerors of Spain, whose renunciation of the Arian and Priscillianist heresies, at two synods held here in the 6th century, marks the origin of its ecclesiastical greatness.
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