When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Celtiberians - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celtiberians

    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 river, in the modern provinces of Soria, Guadalajara, Zaragoza and Teruel. There, when Greek and Roman geographers and historians encountered them, the established Celtiberians were controlled by a ...

  3. List of ancient Celtic peoples and tribes - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ancient_Celtic...

    Western Hispano-Celts were Celtic peoples and tribes that inhabited most of north and western Iberian Peninsula regions. They are often confused or taken as synonym of Celtiberians but, in fact, they were a distinct Celtic population that was most part of Iberian Peninsula Celtic populations.

  4. Celts - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celts

    Like other European Iron Age societies, the Celts practised a polytheistic religion and believed in an afterlife. [ 188 ] [ 189 ] [ unreliable source ] Celtic religion varied by region and over time, but had "broad structural similarities", [ 188 ] and there was "a basic religious homogeneity" among the Celtic peoples. [ 190 ]

  5. List of the Pre-Roman peoples of the Iberian Peninsula

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_Pre-Roman...

    This article has an unclear citation style. The references used may be made clearer with a different or consistent style of citation and footnoting. (September 2020) (Learn how and when to remove this message) Ethnographic and Linguistic Map of the Iberian Peninsula at about 300 BCE. This is a list of the pre- Roman people of the Iberian Peninsula (the Roman Hispania, i.e., modern Portugal ...

  6. Gauls - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauls

    The Silures have swarthy features and are usually born with curly black hair, but the inhabitants of Caledonia have reddish hair and large loose-jointed bodies. They [the Britons] are like the Gauls and the Spaniards, according as they are opposite either nation. Hence some have supposed that from these lands the island received its inhabitants.

  7. Gallaeci - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallaeci

    Archaeologically, the Gallaeci evolved from the local Atlantic Bronze Age culture (1300–700 BC). During the Iron Age they received additional influences, including from Southern Iberian and Celtiberian cultures, and from central-western Europe (Hallstatt and, to a lesser extent, La Tène culture), and from the Mediterranean (Phoenicians and Carthaginians).

  8. Cimbri - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cimbri

    Noosemarks and skin piercing were evident and she had been thrown into a bog rather than buried or cremated. Furthermore, the Gundestrup cauldron, found in Himmerland, may be a sacrificial vessel like the one described in Strabo's text. In style, the work looks like Thracian silver work, while many of the engravings are Celtic objects. [19]

  9. Celtiberian Wars - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celtiberian_Wars

    The First Celtiberian War (181–179 BC) and Second Celtiberian War (154–151 BC) were two of the three major rebellions by the Celtiberians (a loose alliance of Celtic tribes living in east central Hispania, among which we can name the Pellendones, the Arevaci, the Lusones, the Titti and the Belli) against the presence of the Romans in Hispania.