WebThis list of ancient peoples living in Italy summarises groupings existing before and during the Roman expansion and conquest of Italy.Many of the names are either scholarly inventions or exonyms assigned by the ancient writers of works in ancient Greek and Latin.In regard to the specific names of particular ancient Italian tribes and peoples, the …

WebFrom the 4th century BC, Celtic groups pushed into the Carpathian region and the Danube basin, coinciding with their movement into Italy.The Boii and Volcae were two large Celtic confederacies who generally cooperated in their campaigns. Splinter groups moved south via two major routes: one following the Danube, another eastward from Italy.According to …

WebLanguage and ethnicity. pertaining to Celts, a collection of Indo-European peoples in Europe and Anatolia . Celts (modern) Celtic languages. Proto-Celtic language; Celtic music; Celtic nations; Sports Football clubs. Celtic F.C., a Scottish professional football club based in Glasgow Celtic F.C. Women

WebGalatia (/ ɡ ə ˈ l eɪ ʃ ə /; Ancient Greek: Γαλατία, Galatía, "Gaul") was an ancient area in the highlands of central Anatolia, roughly corresponding to the provinces of Ankara and Eskişehir, in modern Turkey.Galatia was named after the Gauls from Thrace (cf. Tylis), who settled here and became a small transient foreign tribe in the 3rd century BC, following …

WebList of trees Oak. The oak tree features prominently in many Celtic cultures. The ancient geographer Strabo (1st century AD) reported that the important sacred grove and meeting-place of the Galatian Celts of Asia Minor, Drunemeton, was filled with oaks.In an often-cited passage from Historia Naturalis (1st century AD), Pliny the Elder describes a festival on …

WebThe Holy Grail (French: Saint Graal, Breton: Graal Santel, Welsh: Greal Sanctaidd, Cornish: Gral) is a treasure that serves as an important motif in Arthurian literature.Various traditions describe the Holy Grail as a cup, dish, or stone with miraculous healing powers, sometimes providing eternal youth or sustenance in infinite abundance, often guarded in the custody …

WebContinental Celtic calendar. The Gaulish Coligny calendar is the oldest known Celtic solar-lunar ritual calendar. It was discovered in Coligny, France, and is now on display in the Palais des Arts Gallo-Roman museum, Lyon. It dates from the end of the second century CE, when the Roman Empire imposed the use of the Julian Calendar in Roman Gaul.The …

WebEnya Patricia Brennan (/ ˈ ɛ n j ə /; Irish: Eithne Pádraigín Ní Bhraonáin; born 17 May 1961), known professionally by the mononym Enya, is an Irish singer, songwriter, and musician known for modern Celtic music.She is the best-selling Irish solo artist in history, and the second-best-selling overall in Ireland after U2.Born into a musical family and raised in the …

WebThe Celtic cross is a form of Christian cross featuring a nimbus or ring that emerged in Ireland, France and Great Britain in the Early Middle Ages.A type of ringed cross, it became widespread through its use in the stone high crosses erected across the islands, especially in regions evangelized by Irish missionaries, from the ninth through the 12th centuries.

WebCeltic Warfare was the type of warfare practiced by the various Celtic peoples and tribes, from Classical antiquity through the Migration period.. No Celtic group employed a regular military as we would understand it today. Organization was varied from group to group and was usually structured according to clan groupings and social class.. Endemic warfare …

WebA famous selkie story from the Faroe Islands is The Legend of Kópakonan, Kópakonan literally meaning 'seal woman.' The story tells of a young farmer from the village of Mikladalur who, after learning about the local legend that seals could come ashore and shed their skins once a year on the Thirteenth Night, goes to see for himself. While laying in …

WebHistory. The short-hemmed, short-sleeved hauberk may have originated from the medieval Islamic world, although its European form is a descendant of the Carolingian byrnie.The word hauberk is derived from the Old Frankish word halsberg (c. 1300), which originally described a small piece of mail that protects ("bergen", literally "to give protection, to …

WebThe Roman-Gallic Wars were a series of conflicts between the forces of ancient Rome and various Celtic groups identified as Gauls.Among these were the Senones, Insubres, Boii and Gaesatae.. Broadly, the Gauls, who crossed the Alps from Transalpine Gaul (France) into Cisalpine Gaul (Italy), tried to expand south through Etruria toward Rome.. After …

WebIn geography and geology, a cliff is an area of rock which has a general angle defined by the vertical, or nearly vertical. Cliffs are formed by the processes of weathering and erosion, with the effect of gravity.Cliffs are common on coasts, in mountainous areas, escarpments and along rivers. Cliffs are usually composed of rock that is resistant to weathering and …