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The Romans knew the Celts then living in present-day France as Gauls. The territory of these peoples probably included the Low Countries, the Alps and present-day northern Italy. Julius Caesar in his Gallic Wars described the 1st-century BC descendants of those Gauls. [citation needed] Eastern Gaul became the centre of the western La Tène culture.
The Urnfield culture (c. 1300 –750 BC) represents the Celts as a distinct cultural branch of the Indo-European-speaking people. [6] 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.
These areas of Europe are sometimes referred to as the "Celt belt" or "Celtic fringe" because of their location generally on the western edges of the continent, and of the states they inhabit (e.g. Brittany is in the northwest of France, Cornwall is in the south west of Great Britain, Wales in western Great Britain and the Gaelic-speaking parts ...
Galli , for the Romans, was a name synonym of “Celts” (as Julius Caesar states in De Bello Gallico [25]) which means that not all peoples and tribes called “Galli” were necessarily Gauls in a narrower regional sense. Gaulish Celts spoke Gaulish, a Continental Celtic language of the P Celtic type, a more innovative Celtic language - *kĘ· ...
Location of the Parisii. A map of Gaul in the 1st century BC, showing the relative positions of the Celtic tribes. Gold coins of the Parisii, 1st century BC (Cabinet des Médailles, Paris).
The Gallic Wars [a] were waged between 58 and 50 BC by the Roman general Julius Caesar against the peoples of Gaul (present-day France, Belgium, and Switzerland). Gallic, Germanic, and Brittonic tribes fought to defend their homelands against an aggressive Roman campaign.
France, Switzerland, Luxembourg and Germany Gallia Celtica , meaning "Celtic Gaul" in Latin , was a cultural region of Gaul inhabited by Celts , located in what is now France , Switzerland , Luxembourg and the west bank of the Rhine River in Germany .
The Irish word gall did originally mean "a Gaul", i.e. an inhabitant of Gaul, but its meaning was later widened to "foreigner", to describe the Vikings, and later still the Normans. [15] The dichotomic words gael and gall are sometimes used together for contrast, for instance in the 12th-century book Cogad Gáedel re Gallaib.