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The five royal tribes of Wales" and "The fifteen tribes of Gwynedd" refer to a class of genealogical lists which were compiled by Welsh bards in the mid-15th century. [1] These non-identical lists were constructed on the premise that many of the leading Welsh families of their time could trace their descent to the "five royal tribes of Wales ...
The names "Wales" and "Welsh" are modern descendants of the Anglo-Saxon word wealh, a descendant of the Proto-Germanic word walhaz, which was derived from the name of the Gaulish people known to the Romans as Volcae and which came to refer indiscriminately to inhabitants of the Roman Empire. [15]
Map 18: The population groups (tribes and tribal confederations) of Ireland (Iouerníā / Hibernia) mentioned in Ptolemy's Geographia in a modern interpretation. Tribes' names on the map are in Greek (although some are in a phonetic transliteration and not in Greek spelling). They spoke Goidelic (an Insular Celtic language of the Q Celtic type.
Tribes within the map of present-day Wales at the time of the Roman invasion. Exact boundaries are conjectural. The Deceangli or Deceangi (Welsh: Tegeingl [1] [2]) were one of the Celtic tribes living in Britain, prior to the Roman invasion of the island.
Tribes of Wales at the time of the Roman invasion. The modern Welsh border is also shown, for reference purposes. The Silures fiercely resisted Roman conquest about AD 48, with the assistance of Caratacus, a military leader and prince of the Catuvellauni, who had fled from further east after his own tribe was defeated.
The Britons (*Pritanī, Latin: Britanni, Welsh: Brythoniaid), 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]
Celtic tribes inhabited land in what is now southern Germany and Austria. [69] Many scholars have associated the earliest Celtic peoples with the Hallstatt culture . [ 70 ] The Boii , the Scordisci , [ 71 ] and the Vindelici [ 72 ] are some of the tribes that inhabited Central Europe, including what is now Slovakia, Serbia, Croatia, Poland and ...
The Ordovīcēs (Common Brittonic: *Ordowīces) were one of the Celtic tribes living in Great Britain before the Roman invasion. Their tribal lands were located in present-day North Wales and England, between the Silures to the south and the Deceangli to the north-east. Unlike the latter tribes that appear to have acquiesced to Roman rule with ...