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Danilo Enrique Noreña Benítez

gigurros
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It was also called Egurnion, Gigurri or Egurres. It was an ancient pre-Roman village of the Comarca de Vladeorras (Galicia, Asturias). Name of an ancient tribe of Augustan Astures.

  




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Pre-Roman Asturian people . Pliny the Elder in his Natural History calls them gigurri and Ptolemy egurros (egurnion). They lived in the region of Valdeorras east of Ourense and southwest of Bierzo. Its capital was Calúbriga. In the Middle Ages they were also called giorres, eurres, iorres, in the valley of iorres, then Valdiorres who gave Valdeorras.

  


Anónimo

Gigurros : Ancient village of the astures region.

  



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