Celtic tribes
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Diachronic distribution of Celtic peoples:      core Hallstatt territory, by the 6th century BC      maximal Celtic expansion, by the 3rd century BC      the "six Celtic nations" which retained significant numbers of Celtic speakers into the Early Modern period      areas where Celtic languages remain widely spoken today
Diachronic distribution of Celtic peoples:
     core Hallstatt territory, by the 6th century BC      maximal Celtic expansion, by the 3rd century BC      the "six Celtic nations" which retained significant numbers of Celtic speakers into the Early Modern period      areas where Celtic languages remain widely spoken today

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

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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):

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.

Central Europe

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 La Tène culture that defined classical 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.

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

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.

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Myths of British ancestry

References


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