The Celts

The Celts (/kɛlts/ or /sɛlts/) were an Indo-European and ethno-linguistically diverse group of tribal societies in Iron Age and Roman-era Europe who spoke Celtic languages. The earliest archaeological culture that may justifiably be considered as... More

The Celts (/kɛlts/ or /sɛlts/) were an Indo-European and ethno-linguistically
diverse group of tribal societies in Iron Age and Roman-era Europe who spoke
Celtic languages.

The earliest archaeological culture that may justifiably be considered as
Proto-Celtic is the Late Bronze Age Urnfield culture of central Europe from the last
quarter of the second millennium BC.
Their fully Celtic descendants in central
Europe were the people of the Iron Age Hallstatt culture (c.
800-450 BC) named for
the rich grave finds in Hallstatt, Austria.
By the later La Tène period (c.
450 BC up
to the Roman conquest), this Celtic culture had expanded over a wide range of
regions, whether by diffusion or migration: to the British Isles (Insular Celts),
France and The Low Countries (Gauls), much of Central Europe, the Iberian
Peninsula (Celtiberians, Celtici and Gallaeci) and northern Italy (Golaseccans and
Cisalpine Gauls) and following the Gallic invasion of the Balkans in 279 BC as far
east as central Less