List of Galician monarchs
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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.
Kings of the Suebi (409–585)
First royal dynasty (409–456)
Rechila (438–448)
Rechiar (448–456)
Aioulf (456–457), foreigner, possibly an appointee of the Visigoths
Competing kings (457–469)
Note: the war of succession split the kingdom, and multiple kings ruled smaller regions of Galicia.
Maldras (457–460), in opposition to Framta after 457
Framta (457), in opposition to Maldras
Richimund (457–464), successor of Framta
Frumar (460–464), successor of Maldras
Remismund (464–469), succeeded Frumar, reunited the Suebi
Period of obscurity (469–550)
Hermeneric (fl. c.
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