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Territory of the Celtiberi with possible location of tribes Bronze Celtiberian fibula representing a warrior (3rd–2nd century BC) The cultural stronghold of Celtiberians was the northern area of the central meseta in the upper valleys of the Tagus and Douro east to the Iberus ( Ebro ) river, in the modern provinces of Soria , Guadalajara ...
Regni / Regnenses – Belgic tribe, in today's East Hampshire, Sussex and Surrey; Possible Belgae tribe Suessetani - Far North Western Aragon and Far South Eastern Navarra (Spain), between the rivers Gallicus and Low Aragon, and between the river Ebro and Sierra de Santo Domingo mountains.
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 ...
Most written evidence of the early Celts comes from Greco-Roman writers, who often grouped the Celts as barbarian tribes. They followed an ancient Celtic religion overseen by druids. The Celts were often in conflict with the Romans, such as in the Roman–Gallic wars, the Celtiberian Wars, the conquest of Gaul and conquest of Britain.
The Boii (Latin plural, singular Boius; Ancient Greek: Βόιοι) were a Celtic tribe of the later Iron Age, attested at various times in Cisalpine Gaul (present-day Northern Italy), Pannonia (present-day Austria and Hungary), present-day Bavaria, in and around present-day Bohemia (after whom the region is named in most languages; comprising ...
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Iberian Peninsula at about 200 BC . The Celtici (in Portuguese, Spanish, and Galician languages, Célticos) were a Celtic tribe or group of tribes of the Iberian Peninsula, inhabiting three definite areas: in what today are the regions of Alentejo and the Algarve in Portugal; in the Province of Badajoz and north of Province of Huelva in Spain, in the ancient Baeturia; and along the coastal ...
Inset: cross shows location of Alesia in Gaul (modern France). The circle shows the weakness in the north-western section of the fortifications. Alesia was the capital of the Mandubii, one of the Gallic tribes allied with the Aedui. The Celtic oppidum was conquered by Julius Caesar during the Gallic Wars and afterwards became a Gallo-Roman town.