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[[File:Gallaecia-Nemetati.png|thumb|Map of [[Gallaecia]]]]
The '''Nemetati''' were an ancient [[Celt]]ic tribe of [[Gallaecia]], living in the north of modern [[Portugal]] between the [[Cávado River|Cávado]] and [[Ave River]] valley, in the province of [[Minho Province|Minho]], north of the [[Douro]]. 

They are known because of a mention in [[Claudius Ptolemy]]'s Geography II, 6. 41, where they are mentioned as part of the [[Bracari|Bracarenses]] group

Their ethnic name comes from the Celtic ''[[nemeton]]'' (Νεμετατῶν, Ptol. 2,6,40. Celtic, to nemeto- ato-), a place belonging to the sacred site/grove (to ''nemeto-''), or more likely, place belonging to Nemetos.<ref>{{cite web |title=Archived copy |url=http://cadair.aber.ac.uk/dspace/bitstream/2160/282/5/ContCelticPNDictionary.pdf |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090731025816/http://cadair.aber.ac.uk/dspace/bitstream/2160/282/5/ContCelticPNDictionary.pdf |archivedate=2009-07-31 |accessdate=2009-05-02}}</ref>

The [[Citânia de Sanfins]] (in [[Paços de Ferreira]]) could be their main hill fort and the tribe may have some link with inscriptions to the war god ''[[List of Celtic deities#Iberian Celtic deities|Cosus]] Nemedecus''. 

==See also==
*[[Castro culture]]
*[[Pre-Roman peoples of the Iberian Peninsula]]


==References==
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*Coutinhas, José Manuel (2006), ''Aproximação à identidade etno-cultural dos Callaici Bracari'', Porto.
*Queiroga, Francisco (1992), ''War and Castros'', Oxford.
*Silva, Armando Coelho Ferreira da (1986), ''A Cultura Castreja'', Porto.

==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20040611215344/http://www.arqueotavira.com/Mapas/Iberia/Populi.htm Detailed map of the Pre-Roman Peoples of Iberia (around 200 BC)]
{{Pre-Roman peoples in Portugal}}

[[Category:Tribes of Gallaecia]]
[[Category:Ancient peoples of Portugal]]


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