Celts Celts Alcimoennis (aka Alkimoennis) was a Celtic Oppidum located on the Michelsberg hill, dominating the peninsula between the Danube and Altmühl rivers in northern Bavaria, Germany, above the modern city of Kelheim. Although the peninsula has been more or less constantly inhabited since 13,000 BCE, the city as the Celts built it was founded around 500 BCE and abandoned again some time before Roman arrival in the area during the 1st century BCE. It is only identified a single time in historical documentation, namely in the copious works of the Greek geographer Ptolomy, who left us only the name and location of the city. Who exactly inhabited the city is also unclear. It appears to have been the central city for an unknown tribe, possibly a sub-tribe of the Vindiliker centered in the nearby (and equally impressive) Oppidum of Manching. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alcimoennis"
A bard is a poet or singer, in religious or feudal contexts. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bard"
Brixia is the Latin name of the modern city of Brescia in Northern Italy. ...more on Wikipedia about "Brixia"
Castrexo ceramics were a part of the Castrexo Culture of the northwestern Iberian Peninsula, particularly in the region of Galcia, Spain. The ceramics were made mostly by hand, although in some cases a pottery wheel was used. In many cases, signs of smoothing and flattening are visible on the pots. In others, the exterior walls of the ceramics seem much more "puidas", giving an appearance of levaren un lixeiro engobe of gray or almost black color. ...more on Wikipedia about "Castrexo ceramics"
Castrexo Culture (Castrejo in Spanish) is the archaologists' descriptor for the culture of the northwestern part of the Iberian Peninsula, from the end of the Bronze Age (8th Century BC) until the 1st Century AD. The most notable and permanent characteristic of this culture is their walled villages, known as Castros (Latin castrum, campsite). The area of these villages extends as far as the Navia and Túa rivers to the east and to the Douro River in the south. ...more on Wikipedia about "Castrexo Culture"
In Galicia and Northern Portugal a castro is fortified pre- Roman Iron Age Celtic village, usually located in a hill or some natural easy defendable place. ...more on Wikipedia about "Castro (village)"
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The Celtiberians (or Celt-Iberians) were a Celtic people living in the Iberian Peninsula, chiefly in what is now north central Spain and northern Portugal, before and during the Roman Empire. The group originated when Celts migrated from what is now France and integrated with the local Iberian people. ...more on Wikipedia about "Celtiberians"
(Celtic Gallaecia) ==Introduction== ...more on Wikipedia about "Celtic Gallaecia"
Celtic polytheism (also called Druidic polytheism) is the term for the religious beliefs and practices of the ancient Celts. ...more on Wikipedia about "Celtic polytheism"
Celtic Reconstructionist Paganism (CR) is a Neopagan religious movement. It is an effort to reconstruct, in a modern context, an ancient Celtic religious framework. Neopagan reconstructionists have been around since the 1970s but little of it has been specifically Celtic. ...more on Wikipedia about "Celtic Reconstructionist Paganism"
Chariot burials are tombs in which the deceased was buried together with his chariot, usually including his horses and other possessions. ...more on Wikipedia about "Chariot burial"
Druids' Glass or Druids' egg, also known as adderstanes in the south of Scotland and Gloine nan Druidh ("Druids' glass" in Scottish Gaelic) in the north was in high esteem amongst the Druids. It was one of their distinguishing badges, and was accounted to possess the most extraordinary virtues. There is a passage in Pliny’s Natural History, book xix, minutely describing the nature and the properties of this amulet. The following is a translation of it: ...more on Wikipedia about "Druids' glass"
Emcee Lynx is an anarchist hip hop artist from San Francisco who has achieved significant popularity and name-recognition among anarchists and in the west coast hip hop and underground hip hop scenes; especially in the San Francisco Bay Area where he resides. ...more on Wikipedia about "Emcee Lynx" The text you are reading is from shortopedia Celts
Enya (born 17 May 1961), birth name Eithne Ní Bhraonáin (sometimes presented in the media as the Anglicized Enya Brennan), is Ireland's best-selling solo musician. As a musical group, Enya is really three people: Enya herself, who composes and performs the music; Nicky Ryan, who produces the albums; and Roma Ryan, who writes the lyrics in various languages. Enya is a phonetic approximation of how Eithne is pronounced in her native Irish. ...more on Wikipedia about "Enya"
==Medieval and Earlier Gaelic Clothing and Fashion== ...more on Wikipedia about "Gaelic Clothing and Fashion"
Gaelic Traditionalism is a cultural and religious movement dedicated to preserving the core of the indigenous culture and languages of Ireland, Scotland, and the Isle of Man. Gaelic Traditionalism is what is known as an Indigenous Cultural Religion, meaning that it is a combined hybrid of culture and religion that is centered around a specific cultural or ethnic group or groups, and has roots tracing back, in whole or in part, to the indigenous culture and beliefs of the nation or region of origin. Modern Gaelic Traditionalism is a movement that is around two centuries old that seeks to revive the indigenous beliefs of, and preserve and recover the extant and ancestral culture of the Gaelic peoples. ...more on Wikipedia about "Gaelic Traditionalism"
The Gaels are an ethno-linguistic group in Ireland, Scotland and the Isle of Man, whose language is one that is Gaelic ( Goidelic), an Insular Celtic language. The word in English was adopted in 1810 from Scottish Gaelic Gaidheal (compare Irish Gaoidheal) to designate a Highlander ( OED). Gael or Gaoidheal was first used as a collective term to describe people from Ireland; it is thought to have come from a Welsh word, Gwyddel meaning raiders. ...more on Wikipedia about "Gaels"
Ancient Galatia was an area in the highlands of central Anatolia (now Turkey). Galatia was bounded on the north by Bithynia and Paphlagonia, on the east by Pontus, on the south by Lycaonia and Cappadocia, and on the west by the remainder of Phrygia, the eastern part of which the Gauls had invaded. The modern capital of Turkey, Ankara lies in ancient Galatia. ...more on Wikipedia about "Galatia"
Gallaecia or Callaecia was the name of a Roman province that comprised a territory in the north-west of Hispania (approximately present-day Galicia in Spain and northern Portugal). The most important city and historical capital of Callaecia was the town of Bracara Augusta, the modern Portuguese Braga. ...more on Wikipedia about "Gallaecia"
The Hallstatt culture was the predominant Central European culture during the local Bronze Age, and introduced the Iron Age. It is named for its type site Hallstatt, a lakeside village in the Austrian Salzkammergut southeast of Salzburg. ...more on Wikipedia about "Hallstatt culture"
The hauberk is a shirt of mail or leather (weighing about 14 kg for the mail). There are slits in the front and back below the waist (so the wearer could straddle a horse and ride), and it almost always had sleeves. The sleeves would extend to mid-way down the forearm. These shirts were put on over the head. Chain mail was made of interlocking metal rings and was flexible like cloth. ...more on Wikipedia about "Hauberk"
The Iapydes (or Iapodes, Japodes) were an ancient people who dwelt north of and inland from the Liburnians, near the Adriatic coast and just south of the Istrian peninsula. ...more on Wikipedia about "Iapydes"
The La Tène culture was an Iron Age culture named after the archaeological site of La Tène on the north side of Lake Neuchatel in Switzerland, where a rich trove of artifacts was discovered by Hansli Kopp in 1857. ...more on Wikipedia about "La Tène culture"
A Latin-Celt (also Franco-Celt, not to be confused with Breton), is a member of an ethnic group in Western Europe who share both ancient Celtic and Mediterranean or Roman ethnicity. Distinct from the Bretons, Franco- or Latin-Celts often have immediate family in Scotland, Ireland, Wales or Celtic regions of the British Isles, but are more distantly related to various southern European groups. Following the conquest of far Western Europe by the Romans, there was much migration within the Empire, including a significant number of peoples from the Mediterranean coast settling in Ireland, and then again much later following expulsion of the Protestant Huganos from the predominantly Catholic areas of Southern France. As members of French population and Latinate peoples interbred with the Celtic population of Ireland, a Latin-celt or Franco-celt ethnicity was born, charecterised by black hair colour, blue eye colour and, whilst born paler than someone native to the Mediterranean, is genetically able to produce larger amounts of melanin than a "pure" Celt or Anglo-Saxon (whilst all humans are able to produce the tanning pigment melanin, with the exception of albinos, some people are genetically-able to produce more than others, but will not do so without sufficient exposure to UV light). for all information in this paragraph. ...more on Wikipedia about "Latin-celt"
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