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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 names of over two hundred Celtic deities have survived (see list of Celtic deities), although it is likely that many of these were alternative names, regional names or titles for the same deity. [188] Some deities were venerated only in one region, but others were more widely known. [188]
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.
The Celtic word *kaitos is one of the Celtic words appearing most widely in British place-names, and those names are correspondingly important to understanding the phonological history of the Brittonic languages, and how Brittonic words have been borrowed into English and Gaelic.
This is a list of Welsh people (Welsh: rhestr Cymry); an ethnic group and nation associated with Wales.. Historian John Davies argues that the origin of the Welsh nation can be traced to the late 4th and early 5th centuries, following the Roman departure from Britain, although Brythonic or other Celtic languages seem to have been spoken in Wales since much earlier.
The ancient Greeks called the people of Britain the Pretanoí or Bretanoí. [2] Pliny's Natural History (77 AD) says the older name for the island was Albion, [2] and Avienius calls it insula Albionum, "island of the Albions". [7] [8] The name could have reached Pytheas from the Gauls. [8] The Latin name for the Britons was Britanni. [2] [9]
Ffynone, near Newcastle Emlyn in Carmarthenshire, Wales [5] The Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery: Wilton House, Wiltshire, England [6] The Earl of Powis: Powis Castle, near Welshpool, Powys, Wales [7] The Earl of Snowdon: The Earl of Lisburne: Trawsgoed, near Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, Wales. [8] The Viscount St Davids: The Viscount Tredegar
Pages in category "Historical Celtic peoples" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 236 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .