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Where it ruled
Prehistoric Europe · 5 known sites
The civilization
The Celts ( KELTS, see pronunciation for different usages) or Celtic peoples ( KEL-tik) were a collection of Indo-European peoples in Europe and Anatolia, identified by their use of Celtic languages and other cultural similarities. Major Celtic groups included the Gauls; the Celtiberians and Gallaeci of Iberia; the Britons, Picts, and Gaels of Britain and Ireland; the Boii; and the Galatians. The interrelationships of ethnicity, language and culture in the Celtic world are unclear and debated; for example over the ways in which the Iron Age people of Britain and Ireland should be called Celts. In current scholarship, "Celt" primarily refers to speakers of Celtic languages, not to a single ethnic group. The history of pre-Celtic Europe and Celtic origins is debated.
Field notes
- period
- 800 BCE — 43 CE
- region
- Prehistoric Europe
- known sites
- 5
