Celtic Europe

Michael J. Simonton

Celtic Europe is that part of the Eurasian continent under the influence of the Celtic language family, a subset of the Indo-European group of languages. In very early Classical times, this included most of the European subcontinent west of a line running roughly between the modern cities of Gdansk, Poland, and Odessa, Ukraine, and north of the Alps, then south onto the Iberian Peninsula. In later Classical times, the area east of the Rhine and north of the Danube was considered Germanic; the area west of the Rhine and north of the Alps was considered Celtic, as well as Iberia. In the most strictly technical sense, the name Celt comes from a first millennium BCE tribe, the Keltoi , which occupied a very rough triangle of ancient Gaul, stretching north from a line between Marseille (Massalia) and Bordeaux (Burdigala) along the Garonne River, north of Aquitaine (Aquitania) , and east ...

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