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Lleida is the only Catalan province which has no coast, but does have mountains, the Pyrenees. The city that currently has some 140,000 inhabitants was founded in the century saw to. d. C. by the ilergetes, a people Iberian, and it called Iltirta. Romanized finally was Ilerda; for the Visigoths Lerita; for those Arab Larida; reconquered in the 12th century was Leyda and finally in Spanish Lérida and in catalan Lleida. For the ilergetes Iltirda probably meant city fortress as she was built on the rock Queen, one of the three high terraces of the old city. For Julian Aydillo San Martin ( Towns and surnames of Spain: 41 etymological dictionary; means " on the hollow ".