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Ancient Celts

Indo-European ethnolinguistic group of tribal societies in Iron Age Europe

Also known as Celts · Kelt

Instance of: historical ethnic group
Subclass of: Indo-European people

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The Celts or Celtic peoples were a collection of Indo-European peoples in Europe and Anatolia, identified by their use of Celtic languages and other cultural similarities. Major Celtic groups included the Gauls; the Celtiberians and Gallaeci of Iberia; the Britons, Picts, and Gaels of Britain and Ireland; the Boii; and the Galatians. The interrelationships of ethnicity, language and culture in the Celtic world are unclear and debated; for example over the ways in which the Iron Age people of Britain and Ireland should be called Celts. In current scholarship, "Celt" primarily refers to speakers of Celtic languages, not to a single ethnic group.

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Permanent duplicated item: Q23013900 language: Sursilvan
Different from: Kelten
Celtic people
OpenStreetMap tag: historic:civilization=celtic
Followed by: Celtic people
Has works in the collection: National Museum in Prague
Language: Celtic languages
Culture: Celtic culture
Location: Europe
Started: 12th century BCE

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