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Ancient Celtic toponyms. The Roman lighthouse known as 'Torre de Hércules', and in the past as 'Faro Bregancio', in A Coruña. Doors to the 'castro' of San Cibrao de Lás, ancient Labiobriga or Lansbriga. The Miño river as seen from the oppidum of Santa Tegra, A Guarda. The Tambre river, ancient Tamaris. 'Tres Bispos' peak, in Lugo province ...
Hillfort of Otzenhausen. Coordinates: 49°37′23″N 7°00′08″E. The remains of the walls. The Celtic hill fort of Otzenhausen is one of the biggest fortifications the Celts ever constructed. It was built by Gauls of the Treveri tribe, who lived in the region north of the fort. The fort is located on top of the Dollberg, a hill near ...
The castro is a fortified village that began to be inhabited from the 6th century BC, lacking streets of right angles and full of construction almost always circular. The oldest houses were mostly of straw - mud and the latest masonry. The roof was made of branches and mud and after long poles. Basically, they were unique rooms.
The Heuneburg is a prehistoric Celtic hillfort by the river Danube in Hundersingen near Herbertingen, between Ulm and Sigmaringen, Baden-Württemberg, in the south of Germany, close to the modern borders with Switzerland and Austria. It is considered to be one of the most important early Celtic centres in Central Europe, particularly during the ...
The place type in the list for Scotland records all inhabited areas as City. According to British government definitions, there are only eight Scottish cities; [1] they are Aberdeen, Dundee, Dunfermline, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Inverness, Perth and Stirling. The other locations may be described by such terms as town, burgh, village, hamlet ...
The core territory of the La Tène culture (450 BC) is shown in solid green, the area of La Tène influence by 50 BC in light green. The territories of some major Celtic tribes are labelled. Map drawn after Atlas of the Celtic World, by John Haywood (2001: 30–37). The La Tène culture (/ ləˈtɛn /; French pronunciation: [la tɛn]) was a ...
The legendary werewolves of Ossory, a kingdom of early medieval Ireland, are the subject of a number of accounts in medieval Irish, English and Norse works. The werewolves were said to have been the descendants of a legendary figure named Laignech Fáelad whose line gave rise to the kings of Ossory. The legends may have derived from the ...
Celtic Britons. The Britons (* Pritanī, Latin: Britanni), 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]