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The Celts emerged as a recognizable culture around 900 BCE. They moved west and north into Europe above the Alps inhabiting what is now Germany, France, and the British Isles. On their way, the Celts established the kingdom of Galatia in what is now modern Turkey and is mentioned in the Christian scriptures.
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www.spelcastor.org/celts.htm
www.spelcastor.org/celts.htm
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"The peoples known as the Celts are thought to have originated in central Europe, to the east of the Rhine in the areas now part of southern Germany, Austria, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, and Hungary. ... Each nobleman had to guarantee that no harm should come to him supporters. If it did, he lost face, and fell in...
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www.joellessacredgrove.com/Celtic/history.html
www.joellessacredgrove.com/Celtic/history.html
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Even scholars cannot agree upon the origins of the peoples we have come to know as Celts. It can be agreed that the Celts were the inhabitants of Europe in in the Pre-Roman period, occupying a vast territory stretching from the Pyrenees to the Rhine and from Ireland to Romania.
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www.avalonvisions.com/celtic_article.html
www.avalonvisions.com/celtic_article.html
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Celts originated in central Europe not Ireland.They word "Celt" comes from the Greek word "keltoi"
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Where_did_the_Celts_come_from
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When one says that one wants to study and, perhaps, reconstruct the religion of the ancient Celts, it is well to be clear about whom one speaks. ... This system of clientage is documented both in myth and in the ancient laws of Ireland and Wales which have come down to us through Medieval redactors.
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www.conjure.com/whocelts.html
www.conjure.com/whocelts.html
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They originated in central Europe north of the Alps. They lived as far west as the coast of France and also inhabited areas of central Europe as far east as the Danube Valley. Some of them spread southwards into Spain. According to the Ency...
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090511110...
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An expatriate scientist thinking out loud ... As Wikipedia and my memory would have it, the old model of the Celts is one of being driven to the edge of the world by other tribes. Couldn't the current arc-like distribution of haplotypes also come to be if Celts fled their conquerors en masse?
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keatstelescope.blogspot.com/2005/04/where-did-irish-cel...
keatstelescope.blogspot.com/2005/04/where-did-irish-celts-come-from.html
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Who were the Celts? ... The first historical recorded encounter of a people displaying the cultural traits associated with the Celts comes from northern Italy around 400 BC, when a previously unkown group of barbarians came down from the Alps and displaced the Etruscans from the fertile Po valley, a displacment that helped...
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www.ibiblio.org/gaelic/celts.html
www.ibiblio.org/gaelic/celts.html
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Some claim that the Celtic peoples are of the same genetic ancestry as the Basque people, while others believe that the Celts are a distinct branch of the Indo-European family. ... What state have most U.S. Presidents come from?
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www.askipedia.com/askipedia-article-009001-1329.htm
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