Grovii

Pomponius Mela stated that all the people living along the coast of Gallaecia were Celtic, with the exception of the Grovii, while Pliny wrote that they had a Greek origin. Anyhow, E.R. Luján, studying their onomastics, couldn't conclude on their non-Celtiness, since their anthroponyms and toponyms could be Celtic.{{cite journal |last1=Luján |first1=E. R. |title=PUEBLOS CELTAS Y NO CELTAS DE LA GALICIA ANTIGUA: FUENTES LITERARIAS FRENTE A FUENTES EPIGRÁFICAS |journal=Xxii seminario de lenguas y epigrafía antigua |date=2006 |url=http://www.racv.es/files/07_Lujan.pdf |access-date=16 July 2021}}

Their main settlement was Tude, present day Tui, Pontevedra, by the border with Portugal along the Minho river.{{cite book|author=Manuel Albaladejo Vivero|title=Léxico de topónimos y etnónimos del Noroeste de la Península Ibérica en la Antigüedad|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ck2RtwAACAAJ|year=2012|publisher=Polifemo Ediciones|isbn=978-84-96813-63-2|pages=86–87}} The non-localized oppidum of Avobriga and Lambriaca were located near the Grovii lands.{{cite book|author=Don José de Santiago y Gómez|title=Historia de Vigo y Su comarca |publisher=Imprenta y Lotografía Del Asilo De Huérfanos Del Sagrado Corázon de Jesús|year=1896}}

• Pre-Roman peoples of the Iberian Peninsula
• Castro of Santa Trega

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• [https://web.archive.org/web/20081006160601/http://www.arqueotavira.com/Mapas/Iberia/Populi.htm Detailed map of the Pre-Roman Peoples of Iberia (around 200 BC)]

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