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

Gaul

A map of Gaul in the 1st century BC, showing the relative positions of the Celtic tribes.

Gaulish tribes (Gaul is approximately modern Belgium, France,and Switzerland. At various times it also covered parts of Northern Italy and North central Spain) List of peoples of Gaul (with their capitals/major settlements):

British Isles

The British Isles encompass England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland.

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

The people in the Iberian peninsula lived on the edge of the Celtic world. Although The Celtic influence did penetrate, especially into the North, creating a culture we know as the Celtiberians, the culture of the Iberian peninsula remained distinctly separate to that of celtic culture.

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

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