The modern Brittonic languages are generally considered to all derive from a common ancestral language termed Brittonic, British, Common Brittonic, Old Brittonic or Proto-Brittonic, which is thought to have developed from Proto-Celtic or early Insular Celtic by the 6th century BC.. A major archaeogenetics study uncovered a migration into southern Britain in the middle to late …

Celtic punk is punk rock mixed with traditional Celtic music.. Celtic punk bands often play traditional Irish, Welsh or Scottish folk and political songs, as well as original compositions. Common themes in Celtic punk music include politics, Celtic culture and identity, heritage, religion, drinking and working class pride.. The genre was popularized in the 1980s by The …

Celtic music means two things mainly. First, it is the music of the people that identify themselves as Celts.Secondly, it refers to whatever qualities may be unique to the music of the Celtic nations.Many notable Celtic musicians such as Alan Stivell and Paddy Moloney claim that the different Celtic music genres have a lot in common.. These following melodic practices may …

Beltane (/ ˈ b j ɑː l. t ɪ n ə /) is the Gaelic May Day festival. Commonly observed on the first of May, the festival falls midway between the spring equinox and summer solstice in the northern hemisphere.The festival name is synonymous with the month marking the start of summer in Ireland, May being Mí na Bealtaine.Historically, it was widely observed throughout Ireland, …

This is a list of Celtic tribes, organized in order of the likely ethnolinguistic kinship of the peoples and tribes.In Classical antiquity, Celts were a large number and a significant part of the population in many regions of Western Europe, Southern Central Europe, the British Isles and parts of the Balkans, in Europe, and also Central Asia Minor or Anatolia.

Proto-Celtic, or Common Celtic, is the ancestral proto-language of all known Celtic languages, and a descendant of Proto-Indo-European.It is not attested in writing but has been partly reconstructed through the comparative method.Proto-Celtic is generally thought to have been spoken between 1300 and 800 BC, after which it began to split into different languages.

Definitions. Traditionally, the essential defining criterion of Celticity is seen as peoples and countries that do, or once did, use Celtic languages and it is asserted that an index of connectedness to the Celtic languages has to be borne in mind before branching out into other cultural domains. Another approach to defining the Celts is the contemporary inclusive and …

Celtic (disambiguation) Celtic identity; Celtic Revival, a variety of movements and trends in the 19th and 20th centuries that saw a renewed interest in aspects of Celtic culture; Gaels, an ethnolinguistic group native to Ireland, Scotland and the Isle of Man; Insular art, mostly originating from the Irish monastic movement of Celtic Christianity

After its use by Edward Lhuyd in 1707, the use of the word "Celtic" as an umbrella term for the pre-Roman peoples of the British Isles gained considerable popularity. Lhuyd was the first to recognise that the Irish, British, and Gaulish languages were related to one another, and the inclusion of the Insular Celts under the term "Celtic" from this time forward expresses this …

The Arab–Israeli conflict is an ongoing intercommunal phenomenon involving political tension, military conflicts, and other disputes between Arab countries and Israel, which escalated during the 20th century, but had mostly faded out by the early 21st century.The roots of the Arab–Israeli conflict have been attributed to the support by Arab League member countries for the …

The veneration of the dead, including one's ancestors, is based on love and respect for the deceased.In some cultures, it is related to beliefs that the dead have a continued existence, and may possess the ability to influence the fortune of the living.Some groups venerate their direct, familial ancestors. Certain sects and religions, in particular the Eastern Orthodox Church and …

Orange (French pronunciation: ; Provençal: Aurenja (classical norm) or Aurenjo (Mistralian norm)) is a commune in the Vaucluse department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France.It is about 21 km (13 mi) north of Avignon, on the departmental border with Gard, which follows the Rhône.Orange is the second-most populated city in Vaucluse, after …

The Wheel of the Year is an annual cycle of seasonal festivals, observed by many modern pagans, consisting of the year's chief solar events (solstices and equinoxes) and the midpoints between them.While names for each festival vary among diverse pagan traditions, syncretic treatments often refer to the four solar events as "quarter days", with the four midpoint events …

Wales (Welsh: Cymru ()) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is bordered by England to the east, the Irish Sea to the north and west, the Celtic Sea to the south west and the Bristol Channel to the south. It had a population in 2021 of 3,107,500 and has a total area of 20,779 km 2 (8,023 sq mi). Wales has over 1,680 miles (2,700 km) of coastline and is largely mountainous …