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Gaul
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):
- Aedui - Bibracte
- Allobroges - Vienne
- Ambiani - Amiens
- Andecavi - Angers
- Aquitani - Bordeaux
- Atrebates - Arras
- Arverni - Gergovia
- Baiocasses - Bayeux
- Boii - Bologna
- Bellovaci - Beauvais
- Bituriges - Bourges
- Carnutes - Chartres
- Catalauni - Châlons-en-Champagne
- Cenomani - Brescia
- Coriosilitae - Corseul
- Helvetii - La Tene
- Insubres - Milan
- Lexovii - Lisieux
- Mediomatrici - Metz
- Medulii - Medoc
- Menapii - Cassel
- Morinii - Boulogne sur Mer
- Namnetes - Nantes
- Nervii - Bavay
- Orobii - Bergamo
- Parisii - Paris
- Petrocorii - Perigueux
- Pictones - Poitiers
- Raurici - Kaiseraugst (Augusta-Raurica)
- Redones - Rennes
- Remi - Reims
- Santones - Saintes
- Senones - Sens
- Sequani - Besançon
- Suessiones - Soissons
- Tigurini - Yverdon
- Tolosates - Toulouse
- Treveri - Trier
- Tungri - Tongeren
- Turones - Tours
- Unelli - Coutances
- Vangiones - Worms
- Veliocassi - Rouen
- Vellavi - Ruessium
- Veneti - Vannes
- Viducasses - Vieux
- Viromandui - Noyon
- Vocontii - Vaison-la-Romaine
British Isles
The British Isles encompass England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland.
- Ancalites (Hampshire and Wiltshire, England)
- Attacotti (Scotland or Ireland)
- Atrebates (Hampshire and Berkshire, England)
- Autini (Ireland)
- Belgae (Wiltshire and Hampshire)
- Bibroci (Berkshire, England)
- Brigantes (Most of Northern England) and in (Ireland)
- Burnett (Scotland)
- Caereni (Sutherland?)
- Caledonii (Great Glen)
- Cantiaci (Kent)
- Carnonacae (Western Highlands of Scotland)
- Carvetii (Cumberland)
- Cassi (England)
- Cateni (North and West Sutherland)
- Catuvellauni(Hertfordshire)
- Cauci (Ireland)
- Corieltauvi (Leicestershire)
- Coriondi (Ireland)
- Corionototae (Northumberland)
- Cornavii (Caithness)
- Cornovii (Midlands)
- Cornovii (Cornwall)
- Creones (Argyll)
- Damnonii (Strathclyde)
- Darini (Ireland)
- Deceangli (Flintshire)
- Decantae (Easter Ross?)
- Demetae (Dyfed)
- Dobunni (Gloucestershire)
- Dumnonii (Cornwall, Devon and Somerset)
- Durotriges (Dorset)
- Eblani (Ireland)
- Epidii (Kintyre)
- Gangani (Ireland)
- Gangani (Llŷn Peninsula)
- Herpeditani (Ireland)
- Iberni (Ireland)
- Iceni (East Anglia)
- Lugi (Southern Sutherland)
- Magnate (Ireland)
- Manapii (Ireland)
- Novantae (Galloway)
- Ordovices (Gwynedd)
- Parisii (East Riding)
- Regini (Sussex)
- Robogdii (Ireland)
- Segontiaci (England)
- Selgovae (upper Tweed basin)
- Setantii (Lancashire)
- Silures (Gwent)
- Smertae (Central Sutherland?)
- Taxali (Grampian)
- Trinovantes (Essex)
- Vacomagi (Cairngorms)
- Velabri (Ireland)
- Venicones (Fife, Tayside)
- Vennicnii (Ireland)
- Vodie (Ireland)
- Votadini (Lothian)
Cisalpine Gaul (Northern Italy)
Main article: Cisalpine GaulCisalpine 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.
- Salaxes or Cisalpine Allobroges - Aosta Valley and Canavese, a little region in Northern Piedmont (Ivrea)
- Graioceles - Northwestern Piedmont in the Graian Alps
- Seguses or Cotties Western Piedmont on Cottian Alps (Susa, Italy)
- Taurines - Piedmont (Turin)
- Insubres - Western Lombardy (Milan)
- Orobes - Central Lombardy (Bergamo)
- Cœnomanes - Eastern Lombardy (Brixia Cremona) and Marseille
- Lingones - Northern Romagna (Ferrara), Po Valley
- Senones - Southern Romagna (Rimini) and Northern Marche (Senigallia)
Central Europe
- Boii - Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Germany
- Cotini - Slovakia
- Osii - Slovakia
- Lugii - Poland
- Eravisci - Hungary
- Scordisci - Serbia, Croatia, Austria
- Vindelici - Germany
Iberian Peninsula
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 Proto-Celtic cultures and populations did exist, even if their cultures do set them somewhat apart from the rest of the Celtic world in Antiquity.
- Astur - in the modern autonomous community of Asturias and the modern provinces León, west of Lugo, Orense, and northern Zamora (all in Spain), and west of Trás os Montes in Portugal.
- Bletonesii - around the city of Bletisa, or modern Ledesma in the province of Salamanca (Spain).
- Bracari - in the northwest of modern Portugal, in the province of Minho, between the rivers Tâmega and Cávado, around the area of the modern city of Braga (the Roman Bracara Augusta).
- Gallaecians or Callaici - North of Douro River in Northern Portugal and Galicia (Spain).
- Cantabri - in the whole modern province of Cantabria, the eastern third of Asturias and the nearby mountainous regions of modern Castile-Leon; some consider them not Celtic or Proto-Celtic .
- Carpetani - in the central part of the meseta - the high central upland plain of the Iberian peninsula.
- Celtiberians - in what is now north central Spain and northern Portugal.
- Celtici - in what today are the provinces of Alentejo and the Algarve in Portugal.
- Coelerni - around the modern Portuguese city of Braga and in what is now the southern part of the province of Ourense (in Galicia).
- Cynetes or Conii - in today's Algarve and Low Alentejo regions of southern Portugal; originally probably Tartessians or similar, later celtized by the Celtici.
- Equaesi - in the north of modern Portugal, between the provinces of Minho and Trás-os-Montes, near the border of modern Galicia (Spain).
- Grovii - in the north of modern Portugal, in the province of Minho, around the Minho river, and spreading into modern day Galicia (Spain).
- Interamici - in the north of modern Portugal, in the province of Trás-os-Montes, near the border with Galicia (Spain).
- Leuni - in the north of modern Portugal, in the province of Minho, between the rivers Lima and Minho.
- Limici - in the swamps of the river Lima, in the border region between Minho (Portugal) and Galicia (Spain).
- Luanqui - in the north of modern Portugal, in the province of Trás-os-Montes, between the rivers Tâmega and Tua.
- Lusitanians - in the western Iberian Peninsula when it became the Roman province of Lusitania (modern Portugal south of the Douro River and Extremadura in modern Spain); usually considered Proto-Celtic.
- Lusones - in the high Tajuña River, northeast of Guadalajara (Spain).
- Narbasi - in the province of Minho (north of modern Portugal) and nearby areas of modern Galicia (Spain).
- Nemetati - in the north of modern Portugal, in the province of Minho, north of the Douro, near the valley of the Ave River.
- Oretani - in La Mancha, eastern Andalusia and Múrcia (Spain); Some consider them not Celtic .
- Paesuri - between the rivers Douro and Vouga, in the modern northern central Portugal.
- Quaquerni - in the north of modern Portugal, province of Minho, in the mountains at the mouths of the rivers Tâmega and Cávado.
- Seurbi - in the north of modern Portugal, in the province of Minho, between the rivers Cávado and Lima (or even reaching the river Minho).
- Tamagani - in the north of modern Portugal, in the province of Trás-os-Montes, from the area of Chaves, near the river Tâmega.
- Tapoli - north of the river Tagus, around the border area of modern day Portugal and Spain.
- Turduli Veteres - south of the estuary of the river Douro, in the north of modern Portugal.
- Turduli - in the south of modern Portugal,in the east of the province of Alentejo, along the Guadiana valley, and Extremadura (Spain).
- Turdulorum Oppida - in the Portuguese region of Estremadura (coastal central Portugal).
- Turodi - in the north of modern Portugal, in the province of Trás-os-Montes and border areas in Galicia (Spain).
- Vaccaei - in the center of the Spanish Meseta, along both banks of the Douro River - in the province of Valladolid, parts of León, Palencia, Burgos, Segovia, Avila, Salamanca and Zamora.
- Vettones - in the modern Spanish provinces of Ávila and Salamanca, parts of Zamora, Toledo, Cáceres and also border areas of modern Portugal.
- Zoelae - in the north of modern Portugal, in the province of Trás-os-Montes, between the mountains of Serra da Nogueira and the mountains of Mogadouro.
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
References
- Alberro, Manuel and Arnold, Bettina (eds.), e-Keltoi: Journal of Interdisciplinary Celtic Studies, Volume 6: The Celts in the Iberian Peninsula, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, Center for Celtic Studies, 2005.