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Gaulish culture developed over the first millennium BC. The Urnfield culture (c. 1300 –750 BC) represents the Celts as a distinct cultural branch of the Indo-European-speaking people. [5] The spread of iron working led to the Hallstatt culture in the 8th century BC; the Proto-Celtic language is often thought to have been spoken around this time.
The inhabitants of the Celtica region called themselves Celts [1] in their own language, and were later called Galli by Julius Caesar: All Gaul is divided into three parts, one of which the Belgae inhabit, the Aquitani another, those who in their own language are called Celts, in ours Galli, the third.
However, it is not fully known if this grouping of peoples, such as their languages, is a genealogical one (phylogenetic), based on kinship, or if it is a simple geographically based group. Classical Antiquity authors did not describe the peoples and tribes of the British Islands as “Celts” or “Galli” but by the name “Britons”. They ...
The Celts seem to have had a father god, who was often a god of the tribe and of the dead (Toutatis probably being one name for him); and a mother goddess who was associated with the land, earth and fertility [192] (Dea Matrona probably being one name for her).
The various names used since classical times for the people known today as the Celts are of disparate origins. The names Κελτοί ( Keltoí ) and Celtae are used in Greek and Latin , respectively, to denote a people of the La Tène horizon in the region of the upper Rhine and Danube during the 6th to 1st centuries BC in Graeco-Roman ...
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The Romans divided Gaul broadly into Provincia (the conquered area around the Mediterranean), and the northern Gallia Comata ("free Gaul" or "long-haired Gaul"). Caesar divided the people of Gallia Comata into three broad groups: the Aquitani; Galli (who in their own language were called Celtae); and Belgae.