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List of ancient Celtic peoples and tribes#Gaul

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[[File:Celts in Europe.png|400px|thumb|Map1: Diachronic distribution of Celtic peoples (ancient and modern):

{{legend|#ffff43|core Hallstatt territory, by the 6th century BC}}

{{legend|#97ffb6|maximal Celtic expansion, by 275 BC}}

{{legend|#d2ffd2|Two land areas in Iberian Peninsula where Celtic presence is uncertain or disputed by some: Lusitanian and Vettonian land (Para-Celtic?), Caristii and Varduli land (Vasconic, Celtic or Para-Celtic?), in today's Basque Country.}}

{{legend|#27c600|the six Celtic nations which retained significant numbers of Celtic speakers into the Early Modern period}}

{{legend|#1a8000|areas where Celtic languages remain widely spoken today}}

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This is a list of ancient Celtic peoples and tribes.

Continental Celts

Continental Celts were the Celtic peoples that inhabited mainland Europe. In the 3rd and 2nd centuries BC, Celts inhabited a large part of mainland Western Europe and large parts of Western Southern Europe (Iberian Peninsula), southern Central Europe and some regions of the Balkans and Anatolia. They were most of the population in Gallia, today's France, Switzerland, possibly Belgica – far Northern France, Belgium and far Southern Netherlands, large parts of Hispania, i.e. Iberian Peninsula – Spain and Portugal, in the northern, central and western regions; southern Central Europe – upper Danube basin and neighbouring regions, large parts of the middle Danube basin and the inland region of Central Asia Minor or Anatolia. They lived in these many regions forming a large arc stretching across from Iberia in the west to the Balkans and Anatolia in the east.

Many of the populations from these regions were called Celts by ancient authors. They are thought to have spoken Gaulish (P-Celtic type), Lepontic (P-Celtic type), Hispano-Celtic (Celtiberian and Western Hispano-Celtic or Gallaecian) (Q-Celtic type), Eastern Celtic or Noric (unknown type). P-Celtic type languages are more innovative (*kʷ > p) while Q-Celtic type languages are more conservative. However, it is not fully known if this grouping of peoples, such as their languages, is a genealogical one (phylogenetic), based on kinship, or if it is a simple geographically based group. Classical Antiquity authors did not describe the peoples and tribes of the British Islands as “Celts” or “Galli” but by the name “Britons”. They only used the name “Celts” or “Galli” for the peoples and tribes of mainland Europe.Collis, John (2003). The Celts: Origins, Myths and Inventions. Stroud: Tempus Publishing. p. 180. {{ISBN|978-0-7524-2913-7}}

=Eastern Celts=

Source:Mallory, J.P.; Douglas Q. Adams (1997). Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture. London: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers. {{ISBN|978-1-884964-98-5}}

File:Römische Provinzen im Alpenraum ca 14 n Chr.png dwelt in most areas of the shown land on the map except for the Rhaetians.]]

File:Pannonia popolazioni png.png river basin around 1st C. BCE]]

File:Roman_period_tribes_in_Illyria_and_Lower_Pannonia.png

They lived in Southern Central Europe (in the Upper Danube basin and neighbouring regions) which is hypothesized as the original area of the Celts (Proto-Celts), corresponding to the Hallstatt Culture. Later they expanded towards the Middle Danube valley and to parts of the Balkans and towards inland central Asia Minor or Anatolia (Galatians). Hercynian Forest (Hercynia Silva), north of the Danube and east of the Rhine was in their lands. Celts, especially those from Western and Central Europe, were generally called by the Romans “Galli” i.e. “Gauls”, this name was synonym of “Celts”, this also means that not all of the peoples and tribes called by the name “Gauls” (Galli) were specifically Gauls in a narrower more regional sense. Their language is scarcely attested and can not be classified as a P-Celtic or Q-Celtic.

Some closely fit the concept of a tribe. Others are confederations or even unions of tribes.

  • Anartes/Anartoi – Areas of modern Slovakia and modern Northern Hungary, north of the river Tysia / Tibiscus (Tisza). They lived in the eastern part of the Hercynia Silva (Hercynian Forest). Areas of modern central Slovakia and modern Northern Hungary, north of the river Tysia/Tibiscus (Tisza), north of the Teuriscii. They were later assimilated by Dacians.
  • ArabiatesAndrea Faber, Körpergräber des 1.-3. Jahrhunderts in der römischen Welt: internationales Kolloquium, Frankfurt am Main, 19.-20. November 2004, {{ISBN|3-88270-501-9}}, p. 144. - areas of modern Western Hungary and eastern Austria, west of the river Danubius (Danube).
  • BelgitesGéza Alföldy, Noricum, Tome 3 of History of the Provinces of the Roman Empire, 1974, p. 69. - areas of modern Western Hungary, west of the river Danubius (Danube).
  • Boii– a tribal confederation, originally from today's Bohemia (Western Czech Republic) that dwelt in the Hercynia Silva and dispersed through migrations to other regions of Europe, to areas of modern Slovakia, Germany, Austria, Hungary and Northern Italy.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=f899xH_quaMC&q=boii+koch+encyclopedia&pg=PA225|title=Celtic culture: a historical encyclopedia|last=Koch|first=John T.|publisher=ABC-CLIO|year=2006|edition=illustrated|location=Santa Barbara, California|pages=224–225|isbn=1-85109-440-7}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0026:book=5:chapter=34|title=Titus Livius (Livy), The History of Rome, Book 5, chapter 34|website=www.perseus.tufts.edu|access-date=2018-02-12}}A. Mocsy and S. Frere, Pannonia and Upper Moesia. A History of the Middle Danube Provinces of the Roman Empire. p. 14. Another hypothesis is that they were a tribal confederation, originally from today's Southern France who migrated to Hercynia Silva under Segovesus, and dispersed through migrations to other regions of Europe, to areas of modern Slovakia, Germany, Austria, Poland and Hungary.
  • Boii tribes of unknown names in the Hercynia Silva - roughly in today's Bohemia
  • Boii (in Cisalpine Gaul)  – Central Emilia-Romagna (Bologna) and Lodi, Lombardy.
  • Boii (in Transalpine Gaul)  – Boui near Entrain - They were related to or a branch of the Boii.
  • Boii Boiates / Boviates / Boiates  – La Tête de Buch, probably around Arcachon Bay and northwest of Landes (departement), in the Pays de Buch and Pays de Born. Although they dwelt in Aquitania Proper, they seem to have been a Celtic tribe and not a tribe of the Aquitani (a people that may have been ancestor of the Basques).
  • Boii (in Pannonia) - Pannonia, today's Western Hungary (west of the Danube) and part of eastern Austria
  • Tulingi (Tylangii?)  – localization unclear, possibly Southern Germany, Switzerland, or Austria; an originally Boii Celtic tribe that migrated along the upper Danube and later allied with the Helvetii?; also, may have been a Germanic tribe.
  • BreuciPannonia. A History of the Middle Danube Provinces of the Roman Empire. p. 14.
  • Carni  – Carnic Alps, South Austria (Carinthia/Kärnten), Western Slovenia (Carniola/Kranjska) and Northern Friuli/Friûl (Carnia/Cjargna). A tribe related to the Carnutes? Also, may have been a Venetic tribe (the Veneti were a transitional people between Celts and Italics or a Celticized Italic people).
  • Catubrini  - In the Alps Southeastern slopes, close to Plavis (Piave) and near Bellunum (Belluno), to the Southwest of the Carni. They came from Central Europe and not from Gaul (Gallia). (They were not Cisalpine Gaulish Celts).
  • Celts of Tylis / Tylisian CeltsFrank W. Walbank, Polybius, Rome and the Hellenistic World: Essays and Reflections,

{{ISBN|0-521-81208-9}}, 2002, p. 116: "... in A7P 60 (1939) 452 8, is not Antigonus Doson but barbarians from the mainland (either Thracians or Gauls from Tylis) (cf. Rostovizef and Welles (1940) 207-8, Rostovizef (1941) 111, 1645), nor has that inscription anything to do with the Cavan expedition. On ..."

  • CornacatesVelika Dautova-Ruševljan and Miroslav Vujović, Rimska vojska u Sremu, 2006, p. 131: "extended as far as Ruma whence continued the territory of another community named after the Celtic tribe of Cornacates"- areas of modern Western Hungary, west of river Danubius (Danube).
  • Cotini  – areas of modern Slovakia, west of the Anartes, and areas of Western Hungary, west of the river Danubius (Danube), south of Lacus Pelsodis / Pelso (today's Lake Balaton).
  • Eravisci / AravisciIon Grumeza, Dacia: Land of Transylvania, Cornerstone of Ancient Eastern Europe, {{ISBN|0-7618-4465-1}}, 2009, p. 51: "In a short time the Dacians imposed their conditions on the Anerati, Boii, Eravisci, Pannoni, Scordisci,"– areas of modern Western Hungary, west of the river Danubius (Danube), Aquincum (modern Budapest) was in their territory.
  • Helvetii-Rauraci / Raurici
  • Helvetii  – original dwellers of Agri Decumates region, in the western part of Hercynia Silva, to the east and north of the Rhine; later, possibly at the end of the 3rd century BC they expanded to the South and Southwest to land later called Helvetia (modern day Switzerland). They were possibly more related to the Celtic populations of the upper Danube basin than to the Celts of Gaul.
  • Decumates may have meant "Ten Cantons". La Tène, (tribal confederation of four tribes).
  • Tigurini  – Yverdon
  • Tougeni
  • Verbigeni
  • Tribe of unknown name (Helvetii Proper?)
  • Rauraci / Raurici   – Kaiseraugst (Augusta Raurica), a tribe closely related to the Helvetii.
  • Hercuniates / HercuniataeJohn T. Koch, Celtic culture: a historical encyclopedia, {{ISBN|1-85109-440-7}}, 2006, p. 907. - areas of modern Western Hungary, west of the river Danubius (Danube).
  • Latobici / LatoviciJ. J. Wilkes, The Illyrians, 1992, {{ISBN|0-631-19807-5}}, p. 81: "In Roman Pannonia the Latobici and Varciani who dwelt east of the Venetic Catari in the upper Sava valley were Celtic but the Colapiani of ..." - not the same tribe as the Latobrigi but they could have been related, they dwelt in areas of modern Slovenia and Western Hungary, west of the river Danubius (Danube).
  • Latobrigi - uncertain location, maybe to the north or northeast of the Helvetii in the upper Danube (Danubius) and upper Rhine river basins, original dwellers of Agri Decumates region, in the western part of Hercynia Silva.
  • ScordisciJ. J. Wilkes, The Illyrians, 1992, {{ISBN|0-631-19807-5}}, p. 140: "... Autariatae at the expense of the Triballi until, as Strabo remarks, they in their turn were overcome by the Celtic Scordisci in the early third century" - areas of modern Serbia, Croatia, Austria, Romania, west of the river Danubius (Danube). According to Livy, they were related to the Bastarnae.
  • Celegeri / CelengeriJ. J. Wilkes, The Illyrians, 1992, {{ISBN|0-631-19807-5}}, p. 217.
  • Dindari or Dindarii (Greek Δινδάριοι), a tribe that was a branch of the Scordisci.Population and economy of the eastern part of the Roman province of Dalmatia, 2002, {{ISBN|1-84171-440-2}}, p. 24: "the Dindari were a branch of the Scordisci"

Image:ThracianTribes.jpg before the Roman period. Some of the tribes shown, such as the Serdi were Celts.]]

==[[Galatians (People)|Galatians]]==

File:Asia Minor in the Greco-Roman period - general map - regions and main settlements.jpg / Anatolia. Galatia were Galatians dwelt is in the centre.]]

In the middle 3rd century BC, Celts from the middle Danube valley, immigrated from Thrace into the highlands of central Anatolia (modern Turkey), which was called Galatia after that. These people, called Galatians, a generic name for “Celts”, were eventually Hellenized,William M. Ramsay, Historical Commentary on Galatians, 1997, p. 302: "... these adaptable Celts were Hellenized early. The term Gallograecia, compared with Themistius' (p. 360) Γαλατία ..."Roger D. Woodard, The Ancient Languages of Asia Minor, 2008, p. 72: "... The Phrygian elite (like the Galatian) was quickly Hellenized linguistically; the Phrygian tongue was devalued and found refuge only ..." but retained many of their own traditions. They spoke Galatian, a name derived from the generic name for “Celts”. Some closely fit the concept of a tribe. Others are confederations or even unions of tribes.

{{See also|List of ancient tribes in Illyria}}

{{See also|List of ancient tribes in Thrace and Dacia}}

=[[Gauls]] ([[Gauls|Galli]] or [[Celtae]])=

Image:Map Gallia Tribes Towns.png (58 BC) with important tribes, towns, rivers, etc. and early Roman provinces.]]

File:Peuples gaulois.jpg) on the eve of Roman conquest (Celtica, which included Armorica, Belgica and Aquitania Propria were conquered while Narbonensis was conquered earlier, already ruled by the Roman Republic). The map shows the ethnic and linguistic kinship of the tribes by different colours (the map is in French).]]

File:Droysens Hist Handatlas S16 Gallien.jpg at the end of the 1st century B.C. (Droysens Allgemeiner historischer Handatlas, 1886), with important tribes, towns, rivers, etc. and Roman provinces.]]

Gauls were the Celtic people that lived in Gaul having many tribes but with some influential tribal confederations. Galli (Gauls), for the Romans, was a name synonym of “Celts” (as Julius Caesar states in De Bello GallicoGallia est omnis divisa in partes tres, quarum unam incolunt Belgae, aliam Aquitani, tertiam qui ipsorum lingua Celtae, nostra Galli appellantur. Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico, Book I, chapter 1) which means that not all peoples and tribes called “Galli” were necessarily Gauls in a narrower regional sense.

Gaulish Celts spoke Gaulish, a Continental Celtic language of the P Celtic type, a more innovative Celtic language - *kʷ > p.

Romans initially organized Gaul in two provinces (later in three):

Transalpine Gaul, meaning literally "Gaul on the other side of the Alps" or "Gaul across the Alps", is approximately modern Belgium, France, Switzerland, Netherlands, and Western Germany in what would become the Roman provinces of Gallia Narbonensis, Gallia Celtica (later Lugdunensis and Aquitania) and Gallia Belgica.

Some closely fit the concept of a tribe. Others are confederations or even unions of tribes.

{{See also|List of peoples of Gaul}}

==[[Gauls|Cisalpine Gauls]]==

File:Gallia Cisalpina-en.svg

=[[Celts|Lepontine Celts]]=

They seem to have been an older group of Celts that lived in Cisalpine Gaul before the Gaulish Celtic migration. They spoke Lepontic (a Continental Celtic language) a Celtic language that seems to precede Cisalpine Gaulish.

=[[Celts|Celto]]-[[Ligurians]] / [[Gauls|Gallo]]-[[Ligurians]]=

May have been Celtic tribes influenced by Ligurians, heavily Celticized Ligurian tribes that shifted to a Celtic ethnolinguistic identity or mixed Celtic-Ligurian tribes. They dwelt in southeastern Transalpine Gaul and northwestern Cisalpine Gaul, mainly in the Western Alps regions, Rhodanus eastern basin and upper Po river basin.

=[[Hispano-Celts]] / [[Celts of Hispania]]=

File:Roman province of Hispania.jpg, at the end of the 1st century B.C. (Droysens Allgemeiner historischer Handatlas, 1886), with important tribes, towns, rivers, etc. and Roman provinces.]]

File:Celts in Iberia.PNG in the Iberian Peninsula, despite the name, a large part of the peninsula was celtic.]]

They lived in large parts of the Iberian Peninsula, in the Northern, Central, and Western regions (half of the Peninsula's territory).

The Celts in the Iberian peninsula were traditionally thought of as living on the edge of the Celtic world of the La Tène culture that defined classical Iron Age Celts. Earlier migrations were Hallstatt in culture and later came La Tène influenced peoples. Celtic or (Indo-European) Pre-Celtic cultures and populations existed in great numbers and Iberia experienced one of the highest levels of Celtic settlement in all of Europe. They dwelt in northern, central and western regions of the Iberian Peninsula, but also in several southern regions.

They spoke Celtic languages - Hispano-Celtic languages which were of the Q-Celtic type, more conservative Celtic languages.

Romans initially organized the Peninsula in two provinces (later in three):

Hispania Citerior ("Nearer Hispania", "Hispania that is Closer", from the perspective of the Romans), was a region of Hispania during the Roman Republic, roughly occupying the northeastern coast and the Iberus (Ebro) Valley and later the eastern, central, northern and northwestern areas of the Iberian peninsula in what would become the Tarraconensis Roman province (of what is now Spain and northern Portugal).

Hispania Ulterior ("Further Hispania", "Hispania that is Beyond", from the perspective of the Romans) was a region of Hispania during the Roman Republic, roughly located in what would become the provinces of Baetica (that included the Baetis, Guadalquivir, valley of modern Spain) and extending to all of Lusitania (modern south and central Portugal, Extremadura and a small part of Salamanca province).

The Roman province of Hispania included both Celtic speaking and non-Celtic speaking tribes. Some closely fit the concept of a tribe. Others are confederations or even unions of tribes.

==[[Western Hispano-Celts]] ([[Celts of Western Hispania]])==

Western Hispano-Celts were Celtic peoples and tribes that inhabited most of north and western Iberian Peninsula regions. They are often confused or taken as synonym of Celtiberians but, in fact, they were a distinct Celtic population that was most part of Iberian Peninsula Celtic populations. They spoke Gallaecian (a Continental Celtic language of the Q Celtic type, a more conservative Celtic language) which was not Celtiberian (Celtic languages of Iberian Peninsula are often lumped as Hispano-Celtic).

==[[Celtiberians|Eastern Hispano-Celts]] ([[Celtiberians]])==

File:Mapa celtiberos.jpg, mixed Celtic and Iberian tribes or Celtic tribes influenced by Iberians, with the possible location of the tribes. The names of the tribes are in Castillian or Spanish (whose plural grammatical number descends from the Latin plural accusative declension).]]

Eastern Iberian meseta (Spain), mountains of the headwaters of the rivers Douro, Tagus, Guadiana (Anas), Júcar, Jalón, Jiloca and Turia, (tribal confederation). Mixed Celtic and Iberian tribes or Celtic tribes influenced by Iberians. Not synonymous of all the Celts that lived in the Iberian Peninsula but to a narrower group (the majority of Celtic tribes in the Iberian Peninsula) were not Celtiberians. They spoke Celtiberian (a Continental Celtic language of the Q Celtic type, a more conservative Celtic language).

{{See also|Pre-Roman peoples of the Iberian Peninsula}}

[[Insular Celts]]

Insular Celts were the Celtic peoples and tribes that inhabited the British Islands, Britannia (Great Britain), the main largest island to the east, and Hibernia (Ireland), the main smaller island to the west. There were three or four distinct Celtic populations in these islands, in Britannia inhabited the Britons, the Caledonians or Picts, the Belgae (not surely known if they were a Celtic people or a distinct but closely related one); in Hibernia inhabited the Hibernians or Goidels or Gaels. Britons and Caledonians or Picts spoke the P-Celtic type languages, a more innovative Celtic language (*kʷ > p) while Hibernians or Goidels or Gaels spoke Q-Celtic type languages, a more conservative Celtic language.

Classical Antiquity authors did not call the British islands peoples and tribes as Celts or Galli but by the name Britons (in Britannia). They only used the name Celts or Gauls for the peoples and tribes of mainland Europe.

=[[Britons (ancient)|Britons (Celts)]]=

File:Britain.south.peoples.Ptolemy.jpg

File:Wales.pre-Roman.jpg

They spoke Brittonic (an Insular Celtic language of the P Celtic type).

They lived in Britannia, it was the name Romans gave, based on the name of the people: the Britanni.

Some closely fit the concept of a tribe but others are confederations or even unions of tribes.

=[[Picts]] / [[Caledonians]]=

File:Britain.north.peoples.Ptolemy.jpg

They were a different people from the Britons,{{citation needed|date=September 2020}} but may have shared common ancestry. They lived as a tribal confederation in Caledonia (today's Northern Scotland); the Caledonian Forest (Caledonia Silva) was in their land.

{{See also|Iron Age tribes in Britain}}

=[[Gaels|Goidels]] / [[Gaels]] / [[Gaels|Hibernians]]=

File:Ptolemy's Ireland.png's Geographia in a modern interpretation. Tribes' names on the map are in Greek (although some are in a phonetic transliteration and not in Greek spelling).]]

They spoke Goidelic (an Insular Celtic language of the Q Celtic type.

According to Ptolemy's Geography (2nd century AD) (in brackets the names are in Greek as on the map):

  • Autini (Aouteinoi - Auteinoi on the map, not the Greek spelling)
  • Brigantes (Britons? A tribe of the same name lived in northern Britannia or they could have been two different tribes that shared the same name)
  • Cauci (Καῦκοι, Kaukoi on the map) A tribe of the same name (Chauci) lived in Northern Germany or they could have been two different tribes that shared the same name.
  • Coriondi (or Koriondoi) A tribe of a similar name (Corionototae) lived in Northern Britannia.
  • Darini (Darinoi)
  • Eblani (Eblanioi)
  • Erdini (Erdinoi)
  • Gangani (Ganganoi) (Britons? A tribe of the same name lived in western Britannia (today's northwestern Wales) they could have been two branches of the same tribe, two related tribes with common ancestors or two different tribes that shared similar names.
  • Iverni (Iouernoi - Iwernoi on the map, not the Greek spelling)
  • Manapii (Manapioi) (Belgae? A tribe of similar name, the Menapii, lived in the coast of Belgica province or they could have been two different tribes that shared similar names)
  • Nagnatae or Magnatae (Nagnatai or Magnatai)
  • Robogdii (Rhobogdioi)
  • Usdiae (Ousdiai - Usdiai on the map, not the Greek spelling)
  • Uterni (Outernoi - Uternoi on the map, not the Greek spelling)
  • Velabri or Vellabori (Ouellaboroi - Wellabrioi on the map, not the Greek spelling)
  • Vennicnii (Ouenniknioi - Wenniknioi on the map, not the Greek spelling)
  • Volunti (Ouolountioi - Woluntioi on the map, not the Greek spelling) – identifiable with the Ulaidh/UlutiThe Encyclopedia of Ireland, B. Lalor and F. McCourt editors, © 2003 New Haven: Yale University Press, p. 1089 {{ISBN|0-300-09442-6}}, noting that Ulaidh was the original tribal designation of the Uluti, who are identifiable as the Voluntii of the Ptolomey map and who occupied, at start, all of the historic province of Ulster.
  • Later peoples
  • Scotti (western portion of Scotland, later they expanded for most part of the country) - a later people from late Classical antiquity and early Middle Ages, descendant from ancient North Ireland tribes (mostly from the Darini, Robogdii and Volunti / Uluti) that crossed the North Channel, they formed the kingdoms of Ulaid and Dál Riata.

{{See also|List of Irish kingdoms|Túath}}

Possible Para-Celts

Para-Celtic has the meaning that these peoples had common ancestors with the Celts but were not Celts themselves (although they were later Celticized and belong to a Celtic culture sphere of influence), they were not direct descendants from the Proto-Celts.

They may in fact have been Proto-Celto-Italic, predating the Celtic or Italic languages and originated earlier from either Proto-Celtic or Proto-Italic populations who spread from Central Europe into Western Europe after new Yamnaya migrations into the Danube Valley.Indoeuropeos y no Indoeuropeos en la Hispania Prerromana, Salamanca: Universidad, 2000 Alternatively, a European branch of Indo-European dialects, termed "North-west Indo-European" and associated with the Beaker culture, may have been ancestral to not only Celtic and Italic, but also to Germanic and Balto-Slavic.

=[[Belgae]]=

Source:{{cite book|pages=198–200|title=Celtic culture: a historical encyclopedia|first=John T. |last=Koch|edition= illustrated|publisher=ABC-CLIO|year=2006|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=f899xH_quaMC&q=koch+encyclopedia+belgae&pg=PA198|location=Santa Barbara, California|isbn=1-85109-440-7}}

File:Peuples gaulois.jpg, the Belgian tribes (in orange) (the map is in French).]]

File:England Celtic tribes - South.svg (Belgae Proper tribe, the Atrebates and possibly the Regni or Regnenses and Catuvellauni) and neighbouring tribes (Britons Proper) in Britannia (Britain).]]

A people or a group of related tribes that dwelt in Belgica, parts of Britannia, and may have dwelt in parts of Hibernia and also parts of Hispania (large tribal confederation).

According to classical authors works, like Caesar's De Bello Gallico, they were a different people and spoke a different language (Ancient Belgic) from the Gauls and Britons; they were clearly an Indo-European people and may have spoken a Celtic language. There is also the possibility that their language may have been a different language branch of Indo-European from the Nordwestblock culture, which may have been intermediary between Germanic and Celtic, and might have been affiliated to Italic (according to a Maurits Gysseling hypothesis).

=[[Ligurians]]=

File:Gallia Cisalpina-fr.svg, part of the Mediterranean Sea) to the south of the Celts (shown in blue) and to the northwest of the Etruscans, in the left side of the map. (map names are in French)]]

Northern Mediterranean Coast straddling South-east French and North-west Italian coasts, including far Northern and Northwestern Tuscany and Corsica. Because of the strong Celtic influences on their language and culture, they were known already in antiquity as Celto-Ligurians (in Greek {{lang|grc|Κελτολίγυες}}, Keltolígues).{{cite book |first=Philip |last=Baldi |author-link=Philip Baldi |title=The Foundations of Latin |publisher=Walter de Gruyter |year=2002 |page=112|isbn = 978-3-11-080711-0}} Very little is known about this language, Ligurian (mainly place names and personal names remain) which is generally believed to have been Celtic or Para-Celtic;{{cite book|editor-last=Kruta|editor-first=Venceslas|title=The Celts|year=1991|publisher=Thames and Hudson|page=54|isbn = 978-0500015247}}{{cite book|editor-last=Kruta|editor-first=Venceslas|title=The Celts|year=1991|publisher=Thames and Hudson|page=55|isbn = 978-0500015247}} (i.e. an Indo-European language branch not Celtic but more closely related to Celtic). They spoke ancient Ligurian.

=[[Lusitanians]]-[[Vettones]]=

File:Celts in Iberia.PNG in the Iberian Peninsula, area dwelt by the Lusitani and Vettones is shown in lighter green colour.]]

=[[Turdetani]]ans=

File:Hispania Baetica.jpg Roman province, Turdetani were the inhabitants in large parts of this province before Roman conquest along the Baetis or Rherkes river plain.]]

Today's Western Andalusia (Hispania Baetica), Baetis (Guadalquivir) river valley and basin, Marianus Mons (Sierra Morena), some consider them Celtic,Koch, John T. (2006). Celtic culture: a historical encyclopedia (illustrated ed.). Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO. pp. 198–200. {{ISBN|1-85109-440-7}}, {{ISBN|978-1-85109-440-0}}. ^ Jump up to: a b Koch, John T. (2006). Celtic culture: a historical encyclopedia (illustrated ed.). Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO. pp. 224–225. {{ISBN|1-85109-440-7}}, {{ISBN|978-1-85109-440-0}}. may have been Pre-Celtic Indo-European people as the Lusitani and Vettones. If their language, called Turdetanian or Tartessian, was not Celtic it may have been Para-Celtic like Ligurian (i.e. an Indo-European language branch not Celtic but more closely related to Celtic). Also may have been a non-Indo-European people related to the Iberians, but not the same people. A tribal confederation but with much more centralized power, may have formed an early form of Kingdom or a Proto-civilisation (see Tartessos)

=[[Adriatic Veneti|Veneti]] ([[Adriatic Veneti]]) =

Transitional people between Celts and Italics? Celticized Italic people? Para-Celtic people?

Possible Celts mixed with other peoples

=[[Celts|Celto]]-[[Dacians|Dacian]]-[[Germanic peoples|Germanic]]=

  • Osi/Osii – areas of modern SlovakiaThe Osi's categorization as Celtic is disputed; see Osi; also may have been a Dacian or Germanic tribe.

=[[Celts|Celto]]-[[Germanic peoples|Germanic]]=

=[[Celts|Celtic]]-[[Germanic peoples|Germanic]]-[[Iranian peoples|Iranian]]=

  • Bastarnae,Adrian Goldsworthy, How Rome Fell: Death of a Superpower, {{ISBN|0-300-13719-2}}, 2009, p. 105: "... who had moved to the Hungarian Plain. Another tribe, the Bastarnae, may or may not have been Germanic. ..."Christopher Webber and Angus McBride, The Thracians 700 BC-AD 46 (Men-at-Arms), {{ISBN|1-84176-329-2}}, 2001, p. 12: "... never got near the main body of Roman infantry. The Bastarnae (either Celts or Germans), and `the bravest nation on earth' – Livy ..." a Celto-Germanic people, and according to Livy "the bravest nation on earth". Possibly originating in Galicia (Eastern Europe) from the interaction between Celts, Germanics and Sarmatian Iranian peoples.
  • Peucini

=[[Celts|Celto]]-[[Illyrians]]?=

  • Iapydes / Iapodes / JapodesCharles Anthon, A Classical Dictionary: Containing The Principal Proper Names Mentioned In Ancient Authors, Part One, 2005, p. 539: "... Tor, " elevated," " a mountain. (Strabo, 293)"; "the Iapodes (Strabo, 313), a Gallo-Illyrian race occupying the valleys of ..."J. J. Wilkes, The Illyrians, 1992, {{ISBN|0-631-19807-5}}, p. 79: "along with the evidence of name formulae, a Venetic element among the Japodes. A group of names identified by Alföldy as of Celtic origin: Ammida, Andes, Iaritus, Matera, Maxa,"
  • Posenoi,J. J. Wilkes, Dalmatia, Tome 2 of History of the Provinces of the Roman Empire, 1969, pp. 154 and 482. a community of the Iapodes

=[[Iberians|Ibero]]-[[Celts|Celto]]-[[Ligurians]]=

Non-Celtic people, heavily Celticized

=[[Rhaetians]]=

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They lived in the Central Alps, eastern parts of present-day Switzerland, the Tyrol in Austria, and the Alpine regions of northern Italy. They spoke the Rhaetian language. There is evidence that much of the non-Celtic (and Pre-Indo-European) elements (see Tyrsenian languages) of their territory had, by the time of Augustus, been assimilated to varying degrees by the influx of Celtic tribes and had adopted Celtic speech.Géza Alföldy, Noricum, Tome 3 of History of the Provinces of the Roman Empire, 1974, p. 24-5. In addition, the abundance of Celtic toponyms leads to the conclusion that, by the time of Roman conquest, the Rhaetians were significantly Celticized.{{cite book|last1=Cowles Prichard|first1=James|title=Researches Into the Physical History of Mankind: 3, Volume 1|date=1841|publisher=Sherwood, Gilbert and Piper|page=240}}{{better source needed|date=August 2020}}

See also

Notes

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References

  • Alberro, Manuel and Arnold, Bettina (eds.), [http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/celtic/ekeltoi/ e-Keltoi: Journal of Interdisciplinary Celtic Studies], [http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/celtic/ekeltoi/volumes/vol6/index.html Volume 6: The Celts in the Iberian Peninsula], University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, Center for Celtic Studies, 2005.
  • Haywood, John. (2001). Atlas of the Celtic World. London: Thames & Hudson. {{ISBN|0500051097}} {{ISBN|978-0500051092}}
  • Kruta, Venceslas. (2000). Les Celtes, Histoire et Dictionnaire. Paris: Éditions Robert Laffont, coll. « Bouquins ». {{ISBN|2-7028-6261-6}}.
  • Mallory, J.P. and Douglas Q. Adams (1997). Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture. London: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers. {{ISBN|978-1-884964-98-5}}.

Further reading

  • Sims-Williams, Patrick. "The location of the Celts according to Hecataeus, Herodotus, and other Greek writers". In: Études Celtiques, vol. 42, 2016. pp. 7–32. [DOI:https://doi.org/10.3406/ecelt.2016.2467]; [www.persee.fr/doc/ecelt_0373-1928_2016_num_42_1_2467]

External links

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  • https://dc.uwm.edu/ekeltoi/ - electronic Journal of Interdisciplinary Celtic Studies by the Center for Celtic Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
  • http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/home.html – 51 complete works of authors from Classical Antiquity (Greek and Roman).
  • http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Caesar/Gallic_War/home.html – Julius Caesar text of De Bello Gallico (Gallic War).
  • http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Caesar/Spanish_War/home.html – Unknown author text (about Julius Caesar in Hispania) of De Bello Hispaniensi (Spanish War).
  • http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Pliny_the_Elder/home.html – Pliny the Elder text of Naturalis Historia (Natural History) – books 3–6 (Geography and Ethnography).
  • http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Strabo/home.html – Strabo's text of De Geographica (The Geography).

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