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  2. Gallia Celtica - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. Celts - Wikipedia

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    She says some Roman and Greek writers wanted to show that the barbarian Celts lived in "an upside-down world ... and a standard ingredient in such a world was the manly warrior woman". [ 164 ] The Greek philosopher Aristotle wrote in his Politics that the Celts of southeastern Europe approved of male homosexuality.

  4. Ancient Celtic women - Wikipedia

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    On the one hand, great female Celts are known from mythology and history; on the other hand, their real status in the male-dominated Celtic tribal society was socially and legally constrained. Yet Celtic women were somewhat better placed in inheritance and marriage law than their Greek and Roman contemporaries.

  5. Gauls - Wikipedia

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    Some deities were venerated only in one region, but others were more widely known. [30] The Gauls 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 [32] (Matrona probably

  6. Names of the Celts - Wikipedia

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    Lhuyd was the first to recognise that the Irish, British, and Gaulish languages were related to one another, and the inclusion of the Insular Celts under the term "Celtic" from this time forward expresses this linguistic relationship. By the late 18th century, the Celtic languages were recognised as one branch within the larger Indo-European ...

  7. Galatia - Wikipedia

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    Celts in Europe. The terms "Galatians" came to be used by the Greeks for the three Celtic peoples of Anatolia: the Tectosages, the Trocmii, and the Tolistobogii. [2] [3] By the 1st century BC, the Celts had become so Hellenized that some Greek writers called them Hellenogalatai (Ἑλληνογαλάται). [4] [5] The Romans called them ...

  8. Celtic deities - Wikipedia

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    The ancient Celts appear to have had a pantheon of deities comparable to others in Indo-European religion, each linked to aspects of life and the natural world. By a process of syncretism , after the Roman conquest of Celtic areas, most of these became associated with their Roman equivalents, and their worship continued until Christianization .

  9. Cisalpine Gaul - Wikipedia

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    Cisalpine Gaul around 100 BC [1]. Cisalpine Gaul (Latin: Gallia Cisalpina, also called Gallia Citerior or Gallia Togata [2]) was the name given, especially during the 4th and 3rd centuries BC, to a region of land inhabited by Celts (), corresponding to what is now most of northern Italy.