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Endemic warfare appears to have been a regular feature of Celtic societies. While epic literature depicts this as more of a sport focused on raids and hunting rather than an organized territorial conquest, the historical record is more of different groups using warfare to exert political control and harass rivals, for economic advantage, and in some instances to conquer territory.
Gaelic warfare was anything but static, as Gaelic soldiers frequently looted or bought the newest and most effective weaponry. Although hit-and-run raiding was the preferred Gaelic tactic in the Middle Ages , there were also pitched battles to settle larger disputes.
After the death of Alexander the Great, Celtic armies began to bear down on the southern regions, threatening the Greek kingdom of Macedonia and the rest of Greece. In 310 BC, the Celtic general Molistomos attacked deep into Illyrian territory, trying to subdue Dardanians, Paeonians and Triballi. However Molistomos was defeated by the Dardanians.
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An individual member is a ceithernach. [1] The word may derive from a conjectural proto-Celtic word * ketern ā, ultimately from an Indo-European root meaning a chain. [ 2 ] Kern was adopted into English as a term for a Gaelic soldier in medieval Ireland and as cateran , meaning 'Highland marauder', 'bandit'.
The term Celtiberi appears in accounts by Diodorus Siculus, [5] Appian [6] and Martial [7] who recognized intermarriage between Celts and Iberians after a period of continuous warfare, though Barry Cunliffe says "this has the ring of guesswork about it." [8] Strabo just saw the Celtiberians as a branch of the Celti. [1]
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