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Sentence Examples Other writers, such as Ammianus Marcellinus and Tacitus, mentioned Celtic women inciting, participating in, and leading battles. Anciently, the religion of the Cornish Britons was Celtic polytheism, a pagan, animistic faith, assumed to be led by Druids in full or in part. The revival of the Cornish language encouraged a parallel revival of Celtic traditions, which by the 1970s had spurred on Cornish nationalism. Cornish is one of the Brittonic languages, which constitute a branch of the Insular Celtic section of the Celtic language family. In 1904, the Celtic language scholar and Cornish cultural activist Henry Jenner published A Handbook of the Cornish Language. As in other Celtic languages, Cornish lacks a number of verbs that are commonly found in other languages. In March 2008, a course in the language was started as part of the Celtic Studies curriculum at the University of Vienna, Austria. The north coast on the Celtic Sea, part of the Atlantic Ocean, is more exposed and therefore has a wilder nature. In addition to the political parties, there are various interest groups such as the Revived Cornish Stannary Parliament and the Celtic League. It has been argued that St Edmund's story was informed by common Celtic and Germanic notions of sacred kingship. A number of Celtic kingdoms also existed in this region, including Craven, Elmet, Rheged, and Gododdin. The church in Northumbria had traditionally used the Celtic method, and that was the date observed by King Oswiu. After the supporters of the Celtic dating had withdrawn following the Council of Whitby, Wilfrid became the most prominent Northumbrian cleric. In the next few years, while Celtic continued with their suicidal youth policy, Stein made bricks without straw at Dunfermline. During the Iron Age, Celtic polytheism was the predominant religion in the area now known as England. In 664 a synod was held at Whitby, Yorkshire, and leaders of both the Celtic and Roman Church united the church throughout England. British brewing is generally thought to have been part of a wider Celtic tradition. This introduces interlace, and also uses Celtic motifs drawn from metalwork. Yeats, in part because of Yeats's use of Ireland's Celtic heritage in poetry. The result was a more acoustic style that was strongly influenced by folk and Celtic music, and showcased the band's versatility. Show More Sentences He presented Celtic with the trophy after they won the 2015 Scottish League Cup Final. Hurst signed for Cork Celtic in January 1976, and remained in Ireland for one month. The teams announced were the 12 existing Super League teams along with National League 1 teams, Celtic Crusaders and Salford. When Julius Caesar invaded Gaul, there were nine different Celtic tribes living in Normandy. These sound changes may be due in part to the influence of Continental Celtic languages. The vast majority of the population are ethnic Faroese, of Norse and Celtic descent. The country achieved considerable prosperity between the years of 1995 and 2007, which became known as the Celtic Tiger period. To the east, the Irish Sea connects to the Atlantic Ocean via St George's Channel and the Celtic Sea to the southwest. After the Mesolithic, Neolithic and Bronze Age, migrants introduced a Celtic language and culture. Ireland's culture was for centuries predominantly Gaelic, and it remains one of the six principal Celtic nations. Manx is a Goidelic Celtic language and is one of a number of insular Celtic languages spoken in the British Isles. It was reported that the hoard weighed about three quarters of a tonne and could contain up to 50,000 Roman and Celtic coins. Thomas Davis, a prominent Protestant Irish nationalist who founded the Young Ireland movement, identified the Irish as a Celtic nation. According to older theories, the Insular Celtic languages spread throughout the islands in the course of the insular Iron Age. It is thought that by about the 6th century BCE most of the inhabitants of the isles of Ireland and Britain were speaking Celtic languages. Like other kinds of Celtic art, Irish art from about 300 BCE is part of the wider style, which developed in west central Europe. A broad intellectual movement, the Celtic Revival, grew up in the late 19th century. The Celtic Revival stimulated a new appreciation of traditional Irish literature. The team came fifth in the Celtic League in their first year of existence and topped that league in their second year. Bronze Age fishermen settled around the fertile estuary of the River Usk and later the Celtic Silures built hillforts overlooking it. Show More Sentences The Celtic Trail cycle route and National Cycle Route 4 passes through Newport. It is separated from Great Britain by the Irish Sea and from mainland Europe by the Celtic Sea. Some people speak Celtic languages in the other Celtic diaspora areas of the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. In all these areas, the Celtic languages are now only spoken by minorities though there are continuing efforts at revitalisation. Scholarly handling of the Celtic languages has been rather argumentative owing to scarceness of primary source data. Although there are many differences between the individual Celtic languages, they do show many family resemblances. Some Presbyterian church buildings are often decorated with a cross that has a circle around the center, or Celtic cross. Major shallow water bodies submerging parts of the northern plains are the Celtic Sea, the North Sea, the Baltic Sea complex and Barents Sea. Scott served as chairman of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and was also a member of the Royal Celtic Society. He moved towards abstraction, attempting to utilise aspects of landscape, poetry and Celtic art. Like Celtic law, it was based on cultural tradition, without any perceivable debt to the Roman occupation of Britain. Flamenco grew in popularity through the 20th century, as did northern styles such as the Celtic music of Galicia. Wales has a history of folk music related to the Celtic music of countries such as Ireland and Scotland. Though perhaps not as popular as some of their Celtic fusion counterparts, traditional Scottish artists are still making music. The Celtic harp, seen on Irish coinage and used in Guinness advertising, was played as long ago as the 10th century. La Tene was developed between the 5th and 4th century BCE, and is more popularly known as early Celtic art. The Celtic League has further expanded and is now known as the Pro14 and consists of Scottish, Welsh, Irish, Italian and South African sides. This soon became four when the Celtic Warriors were liquidated after just one season. McDowell also won the crucial match in the 2010 Ryder Cup at Celtic Manor in Wales. With The Clash of the Nations tournament over, the Celtic nations were to play each other once over October and November in a new competition. Show More Sentences The Celtic cross and Brigid's cross are other crosses which have been used as symbols of Ireland. My 'nearcation' was in Brittany, France's very own Celtic fringe where you're most likely to feel at home if you're from Ireland. From 800 BC onwards, the Iron Age Celtic Hallstatt culture became influential, replacing the Hilversum culture. As one of the Celtic nations, Scotland is represented at interceltic events at home and around the world. The Celtic nations are territories in western Europe where Celtic languages or cultural traits have survived. Unlike the others, however, no Celtic language has been spoken there in modern times. However, no Celtic language has been spoken in northern Iberia since probably the Early Middle Ages. The chart below shows the population of each Celtic nation and the number of people in each nation who can speak Celtic languages. Having defined the languages of those areas as Celtic, the people living in them and speaking those languages became known as Celtic too. However, the language had clear affinities with the Gallaecian Celtic language. The Northern League autonomist party often exalts what it claims are the Celtic roots of all Northern Italy or Padania. Many scholars have associated the earliest Celtic peoples with the Hallstatt culture. In other regions, people with a heritage from one of the Celtic nations also associate with the Celtic identity. In these areas, Celtic traditions and languages are significant components of local culture. Large swathes of the United States of America were subject to migration from Celtic peoples, or people from Celtic nations. The traditional theory is that the Ninth was destroyed in a war on Britain's northern frontier against the indigenous Celtic tribes. The oldest church is the Old High Church, on St Michael's Mount by the riverside, a site perhaps used for worship since Celtic times. However, it is more likely that the boundary between Roman and Celtic Britain fluctuated markedly during this period. Only a few forts like Segontium on the northwest coast remained occupied to keep the Celtic tribes living there under control. David assumed a principal place in the alleged destruction of the Celtic Kingdom of Scotland. Show More Sentences Other areas not generally recognised as Celtic Nations, such as Galicia in Spain, also have communities of revivalist interest and activity. In France, sublime descriptions of Celtic landscape were found in the works of Jacques Cambry. Galicia also started to experience a Celtic revival during the 20th century. Some have seen the revival of Celtic identity and culture as a threat to English hegemony within the British state. The versatile Glasgow designer Charles Rennie Mackintosh also made jewellery, using traditional Celtic symbols. They were proclaimed as a Celtic equivalent of the Classical writers such as Homer. Remains from the iron age are no less present, with the imposing Dun Skeig, a Celtic hillfort, located at the northern edge of Kintyre. In Celtic mythology, the wildcat was associated with rites of divination and Otherworldly encounters. The bitter rivalry between Celtic and Rangers in Glasgow, known as the Old Firm, is known worldwide for its sectarian divide. A number of law codes have in the past been in use in the various Celtic nations since the Middle Ages. Kinship without a doubt played a very important role in Celtic societies in late prehistory. Another principle that seems to have been pretty widespread in early Celtic laws is that of the importance of social rank. The regulation of contractual relationships therefore most likely formed the single most essential element of all early Celtic laws. We have no direct evidence for how early Celtic laws treated foreigners for most of the late prehistoric Celtic world. The Celtic harp is a triangular harp traditional to Brittany, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. The number of Celtic river names in England generally increases from east to west, a map showing these being given by Jackson. Tolkien have argued that Celtic has acted as a substrate to English for both the lexicon and syntax. The film features Joe McKinney as a man dealing with testicular cancer in post Celtic tiger Ireland. The Celtic Connections festival started in 1994 in Glasgow, Scotland, and has since been held every January. In the past, Celtic Connections events have taken place in The Barrowlands, The Arches, Tramway and Glasgow Cathedral. Show More Sentences The Celtic Connections festival has been broadcast on community radio station Celtic Music Radio 1530am in Glasgow. The Hebridean Celtic Festival, now in its 18th year, continues to attract a range of visitors. It is bordered by the English Channel to the north, the Celtic Sea and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and the Bay of Biscay to the south. Only a small number of statues depicting Roman gods were found in Brittany, and most of the time they combine Celtic elements. Breton is a Celtic language derived from the historical Common Brittonic language, and is most closely related to Cornish and Welsh. Among them, Alan Stivell highly contributed to popularise the Celtic harp and Breton music in the world. The Manau Hip hop group from Paris has strong Breton and Celtic inspirations. The Festival Interceltique de Lorient welcomes each year participants all the Celtic nations and their diasporas. The first Pan Celtic Festival took place in Killarney, County Kerry, Ireland. The most successful Celtic nation is Wales, with fourteen wins, with Cornwall close behind, having won ten times. At the Eisteddfod, O'Connaill met members from other Celtic nations, and formed a committee for the Pan Celtic Festival. These principles of the event are to promote the languages, musical talents and cultures within the six territories recognised as Celtic nations. The event also acts as a national selection process to determine the Breton representative for the annual Pan Celtic Festival. The winner of the contest represents Wales at the annual Pan Celtic Festival held in Ireland and is also awarded a cash prize. The event as in other Celtic nations has been moving to July 1, which in Galicia is taken as a reference on the first Saturday of the same month. The Borders was resurrected in 2002 and joined the second season of the Celtic League. Between 1905 and 1910, Celtic won the Scottish League Championship six times in a row. In both 1907 and 1908 Celtic also won the Scottish Cup, this was the first time a Scottish club had ever won the Double. The years that followed, however, saw Celtic struggle and the club won no more trophies under McGrory. He won the Scottish Cup with Celtic in his first few months at the club, and then led them to the League title the following season. Show More Sentences The following season Celtic lost to Racing Club of Argentina in the Intercontinental Cup. In 2003, around 80,000 Celtic fans travelled to watch the club compete in the UEFA Cup Final in Seville. He went on to lead Celtic to two consecutive league titles and a League Cup, but the team's performances in European competition were poor. The cup final win saw Celtic go through the entire domestic season unbeaten. The top also featured the Marist Brothers' badge on the right hand side, consisting of a green Celtic cross inside a red circle. However, it was not until 1977 that Celtic finally adopted the club crest on their shirts. For their centenary year in 1988, a commemorative crest was worn, featuring the Celtic cross that appeared on their first shirts. By this time Celtic were the last club in Britain to adopt the use of numbers on the team strip to identify players. A special crest was introduced with a Celtic knot design embroidered round the traditional badge. In 2003 Celtic were estimated to have a fan base of nine million people, including one million in the USA and Canada. In March 2008, UEFA investigated Celtic fans for alleged sectarian singing at a match against Barcelona. In 1965, Celtic began publishing The Celtic View, the oldest club magazine in football. Due to the collapse of Setanta in the UK in June 2009, Celtic TV stopped broadcasting, although the club hoped to find a new broadcast partner. As the club has a large following, especially in Northern Ireland, several clubs have been founded there by local Celtic fans. Their home from the same year was Celtic Park on Donegall Road in west Belfast, known to the fans as Paradise. They are nicknamed The Wee Hoops and play at Donegal Celtic Park on Suffolk Road in Belfast. On 9 August 2011 Celtic held a testimonial match in honour of former player John Kennedy. McNeill moved on to manage Manchester City, stating that to remain at Celtic would have been humiliating. McNeill's successor, Davie Hay, had his difficulties with the Celtic board too. By the end of the 1980s the Celtic board consisted of Chairman Jack McGinn and directors Kevin Kelly, Chris White, Tom Grant and Jimmy Farrell. Show More Sentences In May 1990 former Lord Provost of Glasgow, Michael Kelly, and property developer Brian Dempsey were invited to join the Celtic board. Throughout the 1960s and 70s Celtic had been one of the strongest clubs in Europe. Building a youth academy was important for Celtic to surpass both Hearts and Rangers who had superior youth facilities at the time. In May 2012, Celtic were rated 37th in Brand Finance's annual valuation of the world's biggest football clubs. For Celtic's development and youth squads, see Celtic Development and Youth squads. Advocaat's third season saw Rangers fail to compete domestically against Celtic under new manager Martin O'Neill. The season started with an early exit from the League Cup whilst Celtic built a commanding lead at the top of the table. The first Old Firm match was won by Celtic and there have been over four hundred matches played to date. These judging boards had probably derived from ancient Celtic bardic traditions. There are some Celtic language specific cultural festivals similar to eisteddfodau. The population of this territory was Celtic with a Germanic influence which was stronger in the north than in the south of the province. Archaeology has shown some evidence of continuity with Roman education, trade with the Mediterranean and with Celtic art. There are scattered Celtic place names throughout, increasing towards the west. Ethnically, along with the Cornish and Welsh, the Bretons are Celtic Britons. Several similar legends exist in Celtic mythology which refer to a lost land beneath the waves. The Ordovices were one of the Celtic tribes living in Great Britain before the Roman invasion. While the Aquitani were probably Vascons, the Belgae would thus probably be a mixture of Celtic and Germanic elements. It arose as a fusion of the imported Roman culture with that of the indigenous Britons, a people of Celtic language and custom. The Welsh church, on the Celtic plan, closely connected with clan loyalties, brooked little authoritarian influence. The Ordovices, a Celtic tribe, lived in the region during the period known as Roman Britain. Show More Sentences The salmon is an important creature in several strands of Celtic mythology and poetry, which often associated them with wisdom and venerability. Today, Breton is the only living Celtic language that is not recognized by national government as an official or regional language. See Celtic Swadesh lists for the complete list in all the Celtic languages. Continental Celtic is a geographic, not a linguistic, grouping of the ancient Celtic languages. The Continental Celtic languages were spoken by the people known to Roman and Greek writers as Keltoi, Celtae, Galli and Galatae. This has allowed the Library to collect modern Welsh, Irish and Gaelic language books for its Celtic collection. Other centres such as Brittany are also in areas that remain defined as Celtic today. The trumpet shaped terminations of various types of Bronze Age Irish jewellery are also reminiscent of motifs popular in later Celtic decoration. There is evidence that the human head had a special importance in Celtic religious beliefs. The revival of interest in Celtic visual art came sometime later than the revived interest in Celtic literature. By the 1990s the number of new artists, craftsmen, designers and retailers specializing in Celtic jewelry and crafts was rapidly increasing. June 9 was designated International Day of Celtic Art in 2017 by a groups of contemporary Celtic artists and enthusiasts. The Dublin region is the economic centre of Ireland, and was at the forefront of the country's economic expansion during the Celtic Tiger period. The Celtic Tiger also led to a temporary boom in construction, with large redevelopment projects in the Dublin Docklands and Spencer Dock. The Celtic Warriors, formed in 2003, are a now defunct regional rugby union team that was mainly based at the Brewery Field in Bridgend. This led to the winding up of the Celtic Warriors region by the WRU, as there was not enough money to keep the region afloat. The team finished a respectable 4th out of 12 in the Celtic League in their only season of existence. Bridgend became part of this region following the demise of the Celtic Warriors. Cardiff Blues finished the season as the lowest ranked Welsh club in the Celtic League having only managed one win against another Welsh side. Cardiff Blues finished the Celtic League 9th place, and recorded only one win in the Heineken Cup. Show More Sentences The signing of Jonah Lomu helped attendances rise to an average of 8,173 in Celtic League and Heineken Cup home games. However, this was expanded upon the demise of the Celtic Warriors region after one season. Gareth Cooper, Kevin Morgan and Ceri Sweeney were amongst a handful of players who joined the region when the Celtic Warriors were disbanded. Another credible Celtic League campaign followed, finishing fourth, the second highest Welsh region. Domestically though, the region's European exploits appeared to take their toll, finishing ninth in the Celtic League. Defeat also brought about the end of the Dragons bid to qualify for the inaugural Celtic League play offs. The Ospreys are the most successful Welsh team in the history of the Celtic League or Pro12 tournament, having won the competition four times. Winning the Celtic League for a second time meant the Ospreys were the first team to have won the Celtic League twice. London Welsh expressed interest in 2006 in joining the Celtic League if promotion and relegation were to be removed from the English Premiership. With the Welsh regions partly embedded, the signs were that the Celtic League would be a competition that could continue. The league was played until April, and then the Celtic Cup was contested amongst the top eight teams. However, despite this approach, Munster finished second and Leinster third, with Munster winning the Celtic Cup. The Welsh clubs' inclusion initially caused them to be expelled from the Celtic League. The idea of a second professional side in Wales was discussed before the Celtic Crusaders had even played a game. The new Celtic Crusaders were argued to be a continuation of the old Celtic Warriors side and were based at Bridgend's Brewery Field. Other Celtic words for violin also have meanings referring to rounded appearances. As such, the original tale has become mixed with elements of folktales and Celtic stories, and so there are a number variations on the tale. The first meeting of the international Celtic Congress also took place at the Birkenhead Eisteddfod. On 26 February 2014 it was announced that Stena Line would acquire the Celtic Link ferry service from Rosslare to Cherbourg, France. Before the time of the Romans, the Wirral was inhabited by a Celtic tribe, the Cornovii. Show More Sentences According to the definitions of the International Hydrographic Organization the island lies outside the English Channel and is in the Celtic Sea. Istrumpa's wrestlers participate annually at the championships for Celtic wrestling stiles. During the Iron Age, what is now metropolitan France was inhabited by the Gauls, a Celtic people. The borders of modern France are roughly the same as those of ancient Gaul, which was inhabited by Celtic Gauls. As a result, the Armorican peninsula was renamed Brittany, Celtic culture was revived and independent petty kingdoms arose in this region. Yell's placenames reveal the presence of the Celtic Church, whose hermits were known to the Norse as papar. Roman towns began to appear along the road, initially founded near the site of Celtic oppida. Attempts were made to link their distinctive cultures to those of the Ancient Celtic people. There were also significant Welsh, Scottish and Breton nationalist movements, giving rise to the concept of Celtic nations. The Celtic revival also led to the emergence of musical and artistic styles identified as Celtic. Since the Enlightenment, the term Celtic has been applied to a wide variety of peoples and cultural traits present and past. Some of the most vibrant aspects of modern Celtic culture are music, song and festivals. The disease, hereditary Haemochromatosis, has by far its highest prevalence rate among people of Celtic ancestry. Nevertheless, Gaelic styles were adopted as typically Celtic even by Breton revivalists such as Paul Ladmirault. The Celtic Media Festival is an annual 3 day event that promotes the languages and cultures of the Celtic Nations and Regions in media. The name Kent is believed to be of British Celtic origin and was known in Old English as Cent, Cent lond, Centrice. Other ancient Celtic peoples historically attested in Armorica include the Redones, Curiosolitae, Osismii, Esubii and Namnetes. Their Gaulish language forms the main branch of the Continental Celtic languages. The foundation of the city known to the Romans as Gesoriacum is credited to the Celtic Boii. It is the oldest building in the upper city, and currently serves as the home to a museum of Celtic remains from the Roman occupation. Show More Sentences Still, some of the Celtic lands were on the channel and were visible from it, which Pytheas should have mentioned but Strabo implies he did not. Their name is the Irish equivalent of Priteni, an ancient name for the Celtic Britons, and was sometimes used to refer to the Picts. Although some complete sentences are recorded in Gaulish and Celtiberian, the oldest Celtic literature is found in Old Irish. Columba's Feast Day, 9 June, has been designated as International Celtic Art Day. The Book of Kells and the Book of Durrow, great medieval masterpieces of Celtic art, are associated with Columba. Over the next centuries, people of Norse and Celtic origin settled in Iceland. Kelley has criticized some of Fell's work but nonetheless argued that genuine Celtic Ogham inscriptions have in fact been discovered in America. According to Celtic legend, this island lay somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean. This was part of the Celtic Connections programme of events put together by the Celtic regions as a showcase for culture in Europe. Strong evidence for old Celtic placenames, though, is found in the Ardennes and to the south of them. Historically this contained marshes and gave the name to the Durotriges, water dwellers, the Celtic tribe of Dorset. Bagpipes are traditionally played in most Celtic regions and many former parts of the British Empire. The Celtic midfielder appeared to be bowled over by Milorad Pekovic but Italian referee Luca Banti waved play on. Diouf rounded Zaluska near the byeline and crossed but Daniel Majstorovic headed away and Celtic eventually mopped up the danger. Fire worship was a cornerstone of Celtic practice and perpetual fires were kept on Druidic altars and in places of worship. The Irish Sea lies northwest of England and the Celtic Sea lies to the southwest. As one of the Celtic nations, Scotland and Scottish culture is represented at interceltic events at home and over the world. Scotland is represented at the Celtic Media Festival, which showcases film and television from the Celtic countries. Lhuyd concluded that as the languages had been of Celtic origin, the people who spoke those languages were Celts. Artists from outside Wales were also drawn to paint Welsh scenery, at first because of the Celtic Revival. Show More Sentences The Cardigan Bay Basin forms a continuation into British waters of Ireland's North Celtic Sea Basin, which has two producing gas fields. The Celtic Sea takes its name from the Celtic heritage of the bounding lands to the north and east. There are no land features to divide the Celtic Sea from the open Atlantic Ocean to the south and west. The seabed under the Celtic Sea is called the Celtic Shelf, part of the continental shelf of Europe. Oil and gas exploration in the Celtic Sea has had limited commercial success. For nearly a thousand years, the Channel also provided a link between the Modern Celtic regions and languages of Cornwall and Brittany. Diodorus Siculus and Pliny both suggest trade between the rebel Celtic tribes of Armorica and Iron Age Britain flourished. The North Channel, Irish Sea, St George's Channel and Celtic Sea separate the island from the island of Ireland to its west. Meanwhile, Celtic culture and influence in Gaul began to wane during the first century BC as a result. Roman expansion along the Rhine and Danube rivers resulted in the incorporation of many indigenous Celtic societies into the Roman Empire. Unlike their western Celtic neighbors, the use of chariots was not picked up by the early Germans. Later the Romans built villas, such as at Chedworth, settlements such as Gloucester, and paved the Celtic path later known as Fosse Way. This early Celtic heritage remains today in place names such as Carlisle, Penrith and Eccles, and many river names such as Cocker, Kent and Eden. The tribe controlled most of Northern England and more territory than any other Celtic tribe in England. In 1092, William II led an invasion of Strathclyde, a Celtic kingdom in what is now southwest Scotland and Cumbria. Eventually, Northumbria was persuaded to move to the Roman practice and the Celtic Bishop Colman of Lindisfarne returned to Iona. In the Celtic languages, the words designating English nationality derive from the Latin word Saxones. A member of the Goidelic branch of the Celtic languages, Scottish Gaelic, like Modern Irish and Manx, developed out of Middle Irish. To the west is the northern Atlantic Ocean and to the south is the Celtic Sea, which lies between Ireland and Brittany, in France. In broad terms, Ireland is regarded as one of the Celtic nations of Europe, alongside Scotland, Wales, Cornwall, Isle of Man and Brittany. Show More Sentences This combination of cultural influences is visible in the intricate designs termed Irish interlace or Celtic knotwork. Welsh evolved from Common Brittonic, the Celtic language spoken by the ancient Celtic Britons. However, several sites interpreted as Iron Age shrines seem to contradict this view which may derive from Victorian and later Celtic romanticism. Insular Celtic languages are attested beginning around the 4th century in Ogham inscriptions, although it was clearly being spoken much earlier. By the 6th century, however, the Continental Celtic languages were no longer in wide use. Several authors have supposed it to be Celtic in origin, while others view it as a name coined by Greeks. Several archaeological cultures are considered Celtic in nature, based on unique sets of artefacts. Celtic cultures seem to have been widely diverse, with the use of a Celtic language being the main thing they have in common. These are the regions where four Celtic languages are still spoken to some extent as mother tongues. Early Irish literature casts light on the flavour and tradition of the heroic warrior elites who dominated Celtic societies. Evidence of Insular Celtic is available only from about 400 AD, in the form of Primitive Irish Ogham inscriptions. Besides epigraphical evidence, an important source of information on early Celtic is toponymy. This territory of the Celtic tribes was bounded on the south by the Garonne and on the north by the Seine and the Marne. This would mean that Tartessian is the earliest attested trace of Celtic by a margin of more than a century. At the battle of Telamon in 225 BC, a large Celtic army was trapped between two Roman forces and crushed. Despite their geographical isolation from the rest of the Celtic world, the Galatians maintained their Celtic language for at least 700 years. For Venceslas Kruta, Galatia in central Turkey was an area of dense Celtic settlement. However, the Celtic invasions of Italy and the expedition in Greece and western Anatolia, are well documented in Greek and Latin history. This view has been challenged by the hypothesis that the Celtic languages of the British Isles form a phylogenetic Insular Celtic dialect group. Under Caesar the Romans conquered Celtic Gaul, and from Claudius onward the Roman empire absorbed parts of Britain. Show More Sentences The Romans adopted the Celtic cavalry sword, the spatha, and Epona, the Celtic horse goddess. Slavery was hereditary In the Middle Ages, slavery was especially prevalent in the Celtic countries. The myth that the Celtic monetary system consisted of wholly barter is a common one, but is in part false. As the Roman civilisation grew in importance and expanded its trade with the Celtic world, silver and bronze coinage became more common. This coincided with a major increase in gold production in Celtic areas to meet the Roman demand, due to the high value Romans put on the metal. However, despite being outdated, Celtic chariot tactics were able to repel the invasion of Britain attempted by Julius Caesar. The style was taken up with great skill and enthusiasm by Celtic artists in metalwork and illuminated manuscripts. Many Celtic gods are known from texts and inscriptions from the Roman period. Triplicity is a common theme in Celtic cosmology, and a number of deities were seen as threefold. The Roman invasion of Gaul brought a great deal of Celtic peoples into the Roman Empire. Roman culture had a profound effect on the Celtic tribes which came under the empire's control. At least the later periods of Hallstatt art from the western zone are generally agreed to form the early period of Celtic art. The spread of the Celtic languages before and during the period is also uncertain. The Britons had been overrun or culturally assimilated by other Celtic tribes during the British Iron Age and had been aiding Caesar's enemies. The Catuvellauni were a Celtic tribe or state of southeastern Britain before the Roman conquest, attested by inscriptions into the 4th century. This language has been reconstructed from Latin place names and modern Celtic languages, and has been called by scholars Common Brythonic. On encountering the Celts they adopted much Celtic equipment and again later adopted items such as the gladius from Iberian peoples. Pictish is now generally accepted to descend from Common Brittonic, rather than being a separate Celtic language. By this time Celtic styles seem to have been in decline in continental Europe, even before Roman invasions. There they set up their own small kingdoms and the Breton language developed there from Brittonic Insular Celtic rather than Gaulish or Frankish. Find more words! 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