Ribadumia

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Ribadumia is a municipality in Galicia, Spain in the province of Pontevedra.

Concello de Ribadumia
Coat of arms of Concello de Ribadumia
Situation of Ribadumia within Galicia
Situation of Ribadumia within Galicia
Population
 (2018)[1]
 • Total5,069
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CET)

In 1151, in the parroquia of Barrantes now in Ribadumia, a group tried to found a monastery with the help of the local magnate Gómez Núñez, but their efforts came to nothing.[2]

Notes edit

  1. ^ Municipal Register of Spain 2018. National Statistics Institute.
  2. ^ Simon Barton (1997), The Aristocracy in Twelfth-century León and Castile (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), 136.

42°31′N 8°45′W / 42.517°N 8.750°W / 42.517; -8.750