List of Celtic tribes

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Parts of Iron Age Europe once peopled by Celts
Parts of Iron Age Europe once peopled by Celts

This is a list of Celtic tribes and associated Celtic peoples with their geographical localization.

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[edit] Gaul (Transalpine)

See also: List of peoples of Gaul
A map of Gaul in the 1st century BC, showing the relative positions of the Celtic tribes.
A map of Gaul in the 1st century BC, showing the relative positions of the Celtic tribes.
Map of Gallia (58 BC) with important Tribes, Towns, Rivers etc.
Map of Gallia (58 BC) with important Tribes, Towns, Rivers etc.

Gaul is approximately modern Belgium, France,and Switzerland. At various times it also covered parts of Northern Italy and North central Spain. Gaul included both Celtic speaking and non-Celtic speaking tribes.

List of peoples of Gaul (with their capitals/major settlements):

[edit] Cisalpine Gaul (Northern Italy)

Main article: Cisalpine Gaul

Cisalpine Gaul, meaning literally "Gaul on this side of the Alps", was the Roman name for a region of Italy inhabited by Gauls, roughly corresponding with modern northern Italy.

[edit] Central Europe

[edit] Iberian Peninsula

Main language areas in Iberia circa 200 BC.
Main language areas in Iberia circa 200 BC.

The Celts in the Iberian peninsula were traditionally thought of as living on the edge of the Celtic world of the Hallstatt and La Tène cultures that defined Iron Age Celts. Celtic or (Indo-European) Pre-Celtic cultures and populations did exist, even if their cultures do set them somewhat apart from the rest of the Celtic world in Antiquity.

[edit] Great Britain and Ireland

See also: Celtic tribes in Britain and Ireland and Iron Age tribes in Britain
Principal sites in Roman Britain, with indication of the Celtic tribes.
Principal sites in Roman Britain, with indication of the Celtic tribes.
Tribes of Wales at the time of the Roman invasion. Exact boundaries are conjectural.
Tribes of Wales at the time of the Roman invasion. Exact boundaries are conjectural.
Celtic tribes in Ptolemy's Ireland
Celtic tribes in Ptolemy's Ireland

[edit] Asia Minor/Anatolia

In the third century BC, Gauls immigrated from Thrace into the highlands of central Anatolia (modern Turkey). These people, called Galatians, later merged with the local population but retained many of their own traditions.

[edit] See also

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Myths of British ancestry

[edit] References


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