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The Celtic nations or Celtic countries [1] are a cultural area and collection of geographical regions in Northwestern Europe where the Celtic languages and cultural traits have survived. [2] The term nation is used in its original sense to mean a people who share a common identity and culture and are identified with a traditional territory.
Celtic studies; Constitutional status of Cornwall; Talk:Celtic languages/Archive 1; Talk:Celtic nations/Archive 1; Talk:Cornwall/Archive 4; User:Kilcurry1234/sandbox; User:Matt Lewis/Nationality labelling guide for the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (including England, Scotland, Wales and the ...
This image is a derivative work of the following images: File:Blank_map_of_Europe.svg licensed with Cc-by-sa-2.5 . 2011-09-19T22:57:58Z Alphathon 680x520 (603759 Bytes) Added North/Northern Cyprus
Map 15: Southern Britain about the year 150 AD Map 16: Wales about the year 40 AD. They spoke Brittonic (an Insular Celtic language of the P Celtic type). They lived in Britannia, it was the name Romans gave, based on the name of the people: the Britanni. Some closely fit the concept of a tribe but others are confederations or even unions of ...
The history of pre-Celtic Europe and Celtic origins is debated. The traditional "Celtic from the East" theory, says the proto-Celtic language arose in the late Bronze Age Urnfield culture of central Europe, named after grave sites in southern Germany, which flourished from around 1200 BC.
The reverse side of the Desborough Mirror, with spiral and trumpet motifs typical of La Tène Celtic art in Britain A 4th century BC Celtic gold ring from southern Germany, decorated with human and rams heads. Little is known of family structure among the Celts. Patterns of settlement varied from decentralised to urban.
Map of Celtic-influenced regions of Europe, in dark green 1 and 2 : regions where Celtic languages are attested from the Middle Ages until today. Celtic toponymy is the study of place names wholly or partially of Celtic origin.
English: Same as OsgoodeLawyer's Image:Celtic Nations.svg, but I am changing the colours to be more evocative of national symbols: blue matches that of the Scottish flag, green matches that of the Irish tricolour, black for Brittany, red for Wales, gold for Cornwall. For now the Isle of Man now has a different shade of yellow (evocative of the ...