List of Celtic tribes
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This is a list of Celtic tribes and associated celtic peoples with their geographical localization.
- Gaulish tribes (Gaul is approximately modern Belgium, France,and Switzerland. At various times it also covered parts of Northern Italy and North central Spain)
List of peoples of Gaul (with their capitals):
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- Aedui - Bibracte
- Allobroges - Vienne
- Ambiani - Amiens
- Andecavi - Angers
- Aquitani - Bordeaux
- Atrebates - Arras
- Arverni - Gergovia
- Baiocasses - Bayeux
- Boii - Bologna
- Bellovaci - Beauvais
- Bituriges - Bourges
- Carnutes - Chartres
- Catalauni - Châlons-en-Champagne
- Cenomani - Brescia
- Coriosilitae - Corseul
- Helvetii - La Tene
- Insubres - Milan
- Lexovii - Lisieux
- Mediomatrici - Metz
- Medulii - Medoc
- Menapii - Cassel
- Morinii - Boulogne sur Mer
- Namnetes - Nantes
- Nervii - Bavay
- Orobii - Bergamo
- Parisii - Paris
- Petrocorii - Perigueux
- Pictones - Poitiers
- Raurici - Kaiseraugst (Augusta-Raurica)
- Redones - Rennes
- Remi - Reims
- Santones - Saintes
- Senones - Sens
- Sequani - Besançon
- Suessiones - Soissons
- Tigurini - Yverdon
- Tolosates - Toulouse
- Treveri - Trier
- Tungri - Tongeren
- Turones - Tours
- Unelli - Coutances
- Vangiones - Worms
- Veliocassi - Rouen
- Vellavi - Ruessium
- Veneti - Vannes
- Viducasses - Vieux
- Viromandui - Noyon
- Vocontii - Vaison-la-Romaine
- British Isles (England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales)
- Ancalites (Hampshire and Wiltshire, England)
- Atecotti (Scotland or Ireland)
- Atrebates (Hampshire and Berkshire, England)
- Autini (Ireland)
- Belgae (Wiltshire and Hampshire)
- Bibroci (Berkshire, England)
- Brigantes (Most of Northern England)
- Brigantes (Ireland)
- Caereni (Sutherland?)
- Caledonii (Invernessshire?)
- Cantiaci (Kent)
- Carnonacae (Western Highlands of Scotland)
- Carvetii (Cumberland)
- Cassi (England)
- Catuvellauni(Hertfordshire)
- Cauci (Ireland)
- Corieltauvi (Leicestershire)
- Coriondi (Ireland)
- Corionototae (Northumberland)
- Cornovii (Caithness)
- Cornovii (Shropshire and Cheshire)
- Cornovii (Cornwall)
- Creones (Argyllshire)
- Damnonii (Strathclyde)
- Darini (Ireland)
- Deceangli (Flintshire)
- Decantae (Easter Ross?)
- Demetae (Dyfed)
- Dobunni (Gloucestershire)
- Dumnonii (Devon)
- Durotriges (Dorset)
- Eblani (Ireland)
- Epidii (Kintyre)
- Gangani (Ireland)
- Gangani (Llŷn Peninsula)
- Herpeditani (Ireland)
- Iberni (Ireland)
- Iceni (East Anglia)
- Lugi (Eastern Sutherland?)
- Magnate (Ireland)
- Manapii (Ireland)
- Novantae (Galloway)
- Ordovices (Gwynedd)
- Parisii (East Riding)
- Regini (Sussex)
- Robogdii (Ireland)
- Segontiaci (England)
- Selgovae (upper Tweed basin)
- Setantii (Lancashire)
- Silures (Gwent)
- Smertae (Southern Sutherland?)
- Taxali (Aberdeenshire)
- Trinovantes (Essex)
- Vacomagi (Banffshire?)
- Velabri (Ireland)
- Venicones (Strathmore?)
- Vennicnii (Ireland)
- Vodie (Ireland)
- Votadini (Lothian)
[edit] Possible Celtic Forebears/Contemporaries
Not every Peoples who had a relationship to a Celtic peoples is included here, for instance, Greeks. However those listed below are listed as they are thought to have a strong cultural and/or genetic influence on the history of one or more of the Celtic peoples.
- Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal) - (The Ibero-Celts were most certainly Celts, but heavy influence, firstly from the Iberian Almerían civilisations, then Carthage means they probably should belong to a separate sub-group.
- Celtiberia - Spain and Portugal
- Lusitanians - Portugal
- Cynetes or Conii - Algarve in southernmost Portugal
- Calaicians or Gallaeci - Portugal, Spain
- Astures - Asturias, Spain
- Asia Minor (Turkey)
- Romans The Romans and Celts were different people, but it is from the Romans where most of our evidence of Celtic culture comes, and it is with the Romans that the celtic peoples attained places in government and some of the Roman leaders came from families of a Celtic origin. The original Italic peoples were not drastically different to the Celts.
