Name as many celtic tribes/clans you can think of

Rhonda Tharp

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I recall reading that the Celts never called themselves the Celts. As the Romans advanced farther north, the tribes and clans they encountered were all lumped in together called the "Keltoi." Just wondering who some of those tribes and clans were. Would the Gauls, Anglos, Saxons, etc be around this time period of the Roman invasion? I know the Iceni were, that was Boudica's tribe.
Thanks!
 

Talaria

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I wish I knew the answer to this. My family history in Ireland is traced back to 1193 we are in the Annals of the four masters. Our family was first written in as Anglo Normans. Im sure they were there long before then. Maybe this will help place the Normans a bit?
 

Alejandro

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I recall reading that the Celts never called themselves the Celts. As the Romans advanced farther north, the tribes and clans they encountered were all lumped in together called the "Keltoi." Just wondering who some of those tribes and clans were. Would the Gauls, Anglos, Saxons, etc be around this time period of the Roman invasion? I know the Iceni were, that was Boudica's tribe.
The Gauls are actually one of the most prominent of the "Celti/ Keltoi" encountered by the Romans during their aggressive expansion project. So much so that today we have the French comicbook series Asterix, which you may well have encountered, in which Julius Caesar, notwithstanding his conquest of most of "the known world," cannot defeat one Gaulish village on account of the magical strength-potion effectively manufactured by their old Druid Getafix.

Neither the Angles nor the Saxons were around during the waxing days of the Roman Empire; both groups came on the tail-ends of the waves of Germanic tribes that gradually demolished the Empire, which event is supposed to mark the beginning of Europe's Middle Ages. The Angles and Saxons are considered to have been Germanic rather than Keltic.

Wikipedia.org>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celts << has a few truckloads of names of Keltic tribes, especially as the Romans (from whom we get most of our ancient information regarding these groups) called them. Check out these maps:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Celts_in_Illyria_&_Pannonia.png
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Römische_Provinzen_im_Alpenraum_ca_14_n_Chr.png
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Iberia_300BC.svg
 

LegendofJoe

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I recall reading that the Celts never called themselves the Celts. As the Romans advanced farther north, the tribes and clans they encountered were all lumped in together called the "Keltoi." Just wondering who some of those tribes and clans were. Would the Gauls, Anglos, Saxons, etc be around this time period of the Roman invasion? I know the Iceni were, that was Boudica's tribe.
Thanks!
Hi Rhonda
There were many Celtic tribes in the ancient world.
The country of Belgium gets its name from one tribe called the Belgae.
The Suetoni is another that comes to mind, as well as the Galatians: the Celts of Asia Minor.
The Gauls were a general name that the Romans gave to the Celts.
The Angles and Saxons are Germanic tribes that came to the fore in the waning days of bothe the
Celts and the Romans. They invaded G. Britain around the 6th C. C.E.
The early English they spoke would rename the land England.
 
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