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The Celts (/ kɛlts / kelts, see pronunciation for different usages) or Celtic peoples (/ ˈkɛltɪk / KEL-tick) were a collection of Indo-European peoples [1] in Europe and Anatolia, identified by their use of Celtic languages and other cultural similarities. [2][3][4][5] Major Celtic groups included the Gauls; the Celtiberians and Gallaeci [6 ...
An example is the Claddagh ring produced in Galway since at least 1700, but popularised in the 1840s. [104] Textile craft industries based on Celtic fisher designs such as Aran jumpers were developed in the early 1900s by enterprising island women to earn income. [105]
e. A page from the Book of Kells, made by Gaelic monastic scribes in the 9th century. Gaelic Ireland (Irish: Éire Ghaelach) was the Gaelic political and social order, and associated culture, that existed in Ireland from the late prehistoric era until the 17th century. It comprised the whole island before Anglo-Normans conquered parts of ...
The Celts were the first population in the territory of present-day Slovakia who can be identified on the basis of written sources. [1] [2] The first Celtic groups came from the West around 400 BC. [2] Settlements of the La Tène culture indicate that the Celts colonized the lowlands along the river Danube and its tributaries.
The Celts (/ ˈ k ɛ l t s /, occasionally / ˈ s ɛ l t s /, see pronunciation of Celtic) or Kelts were an ethnolinguistic group of tribal societies in Iron Age and Medieval Europe who spoke Celtic languages and had a similar culture, [236] although the relationship between the ethnic, linguistic and cultural elements remains uncertain and ...
Map 8: Gaul (58 BC) with important tribes, towns, rivers, etc. and early Roman provinces. Map 9: Gaul (Gallia) on the eve of Roman conquest (Celtica, which included Armorica, Belgica and Aquitania Propria were conquered while Narbonensis was conquered earlier, already ruled by the Roman Republic).
The Gaels (/ ɡeɪlz / GAYLZ; Irish: Na Gaeil [n̪ˠə ˈɡeːlʲ]; Scottish Gaelic: Na Gàidheil [nə ˈkɛː.al]; Manx: Ny Gaeil [nə ˈɡeːl]) are an ethnolinguistic group [6] native to Ireland, Scotland and the Isle of Man. [a][10] They are associated with the Gaelic languages: a branch of the Celtic languages comprising Irish, Manx and ...
Celtic Britons. The Britons (* Pritanī, Latin: Britanni), also known as Celtic Britons[1] or Ancient Britons, were the indigenous Celtic people [2] who inhabited Great Britain from at least the British Iron Age until the High Middle Ages, at which point they diverged into the Welsh, Cornish, and Bretons (among others). [2]