According to Strabo, writing two centuries after the events, rather than being destroyed by the Romans like their Celtic neighbours, " the Boii were merely driven out of the regions they occupied ; and after migrating to the regions round about the Ister, lived with the Taurisci, and carried on war against the Daci until they perished, tribe and all — and thus they left their country, which was a part of Illyria, to their neighbours as a pasture-ground for sheep.

The name has been explained as derived from a Celtic term for " far islands ", but in popular etymology it has long been understood as based on Old Norse fár " livestock ", thus fær-øer " sheep islands ".

* November 1 is called November Day ( Lá Samhna ) in Celtic tradition and is thus named in the Irish Calendar, where the month is called Mí na Samhna.

Gallia Aquitania was far larger than the original Aquitania, as it extended north of the Garonne River, in fact all the way north to the Loire River, thus including the Celtic Gauls that inhabited the regions between the Garonne and the Loire rivers.

It has also been suggested that the gemination nn is typical to a Belgae language, being different from Celtic and thus impelling a Nordwestblock etymology that is also assumed to be closer to Germanic.

Irish nationalists see him as the most important Celtic Irish hero, and thus he is important to their whole culture.

It can thus be difficult to tell from a simple dedication to Apollo whether the classical deity is meant or whether a particular Celtic deity is being referred to under a classical name.

Nonetheless, following the Protestant Reformation, the events of the synod have been symbolically interpreted as a “ Celtic Church ” opposing a “ Roman Church ”, and the decision of Oswiu was thus interpreted as the “ subjugation ” of the “ British Church ” to Rome.

The principal substrate of British place names is thus Celtic in origin, and more specifically Brythonic (' British '), to distinguish it from the related Gaelic languages of Ireland.

Gaul might be a derivation from Galatia, thus suggesting a Celtic origin.

In the battle of Telamon, the Romans defeated the joint forces of the Celtic tribes, thus achieving a hegemony over the new Roman Province of Cisalpine Gaul centred at Mutina ( Modena ).

Despite being located midway between Celtic and Rangers, Queen's Park's long resistance to professionalism has resulted in not having competed in the same division as them for long periods of time, and thus turning to rivals in lower divisions, such as Partick Thistle, Clyde and Albion Rovers.

While some recent scholarship ( e. g. Eska 1998 ) has tended to consider it simply as an early form of Cisalpine Gaulish ( or Cisalpine Celtic ), thus a dialect of the Gaulish language, the majority opinion since Lejeune 1971 continues to view it as a distinct Continental Celtic language, thus not a Gaulish dialect.

A minority opinion considers it as simply an early form of Cisalpine Gaulish ( or Cisalpine Celtic ) and thus a dialect of the Gaulish language ( e. g. Eska 1998 ).

The name may be related to personal names such as Welsh Gwrgi, Breton Gurki, and Irish Ferchu, meaning " Man-hound " or " Werewolf ", which in ancient Common Celtic would have had a nominative singular * Wiro-kū ( oblique * Wiro-kon -); Viroconium could thus be derived from such a personal name and mean "( the place belonging to ) * Wirokū ".

The first syllable is shown long and stressed ( Trēverī ) in Latin dictionaries, according to its Celtic etymology, thus giving the Classical Latin pronunciation.

The Romans built a new road from Trier to Reims via Mamer, to the north, and Arlon, thus by-passing by 25 kilometres the Titelberg and the older Celtic route, and the capital was displaced to Augusta Treverorum ( Trier ) with no signs of conflict.

When we thus review the circumstances of the Saxon conquest, and especially when we remember the immense influx of Celtic blood which we have received in later centuries from the Gael and the Erse folk, we may perhaps conclude that we should accept and glory in the term Anglo-Celt, rather than Anglo-Saxon, as the fitting designation of our race.

Although they originally occurred on holy days, corresponding roughly to the old Celtic quarter days, they were fixed by the Term and Quarter Days ( Scotland ) Act 1990 as falling on the 28th day every three months, thus:

On this occasion, the goal was immediately disallowed after the linesman, not having seen Rooney's taking of the corner, raised his flag, thus prompting the referee to stop play ; the routine, however, has been considered legal on previous occasions, such as by Mladen Petrić and Ivan Rakitić at Basel, as well as United manager Alex Ferguson saying he first saw it performed by Celtic 42 years previously, and even himself tried it at Aberdeen.

The term Caledones may derive from the Brythonic elements caled " hard, tough " plus the Celtic ' great ' suffix, thus * caledonos " great, hard / tough person ", * caledoni " great, hard / tough people ".

Alternatively, Latin C-represents an attempt to render the unfamiliar Proto-Germanic h =, perhaps due to Celtic-speaking interpreters ( a Celtic intermediary would also explain why Germanic * Þeuðanōz became Latin Teutones ).

Instead, the migration led to the establishment of a long-lived Celtic territory in central Anatolia, which included the eastern part of ancient Phrygia, a territory that became known as Galatia.

Some scholars argue that Arthur was originally a fictional hero of folklore — or even a half-forgotten Celtic deity — who became credited with real deeds in the distant past.

There is clear evidence for a knowledge of Arthur and Arthurian tales on the Continent before Geoffrey's work became widely known ( see for example, the Modena Archivolt ), as well as for the use of " Celtic " names and stories not found in Geoffrey's Historia in the Arthurian romances.

By the following year Dalglish was a full professional and a regular member of the highly-rated Celtic reserve team that became known as the Quality Street Gang, due to its having a large number of future Scottish internationals, including Danny McGrain, George Connelly, Lou Macari, and David Hay.

Celtic revival took hold here, and motifs such as the Glasgow rose became popularised.

With the expansion of the Irish economy in the 1990s, during the " Celtic Tiger " years, Drogheda became one of the main secondary locations for people who work in Dublin to buy a house, as property prices in the capital became prohibitive for many first-time home buyers.

Others claim that the name comes from the Roman settlement of Celtic name Vindobona ( Celtic " windo-bona "), probably meaning " white base / bottom ," which became Vindovina, Vídeň ( Czech ) and Wien.

As the Celtic world established renewed contact with the Continent it became aware of the divergence ; the first clash over the matter came in Gaul in 602, when Columbanus resisted pressure from the local bishops to conform.

Among these early groups, the Irish band Cruachan and the German band Subway to Sally each spearheaded a different regional variation that over time became known as Celtic metal and medieval metal respectively.

It became a bishopric in the fourth century, and the hill fort of the Celtic Cavares was renamed for Saint Eutrope, the first bishop of Saintes.

Nechtan or Nectan became a common Celtic name and a number of historical or legendary figures bear it.

First signs of settlement in this region have been dated to about 3500 BC, but the hill site of Carsac – a Celtic place-name that has been retained at other sites in the south – became an important trading place in the 6th century BC.

Born in Spain he became a Legionary commander in Britain, assembled a Celtic army and assumed the title of Emperor of the Western Roman Empire in AD 383.

The most popular theory states that the historical name of the town, Sarabrucca, derived from the Celtic word briga ( hill, or rock, big stone ), which became Brocken ( can mean rock or boulder ) in High German.

The capital city was an ancient Celtic settlement named in honour of the god Lugh ( see Lyon ), later Latinised as Lucus Augusti, and which became one of the three main important Galician-Roman centres alongside Braccara Augusta and Asturica Augusta ( modern Braga and Astorga respectively ).

After the supporters of the " Celtic churches " had withdrawn following the Council of Whitby, Wilfrid became the most prominent Northumbrian cleric.

Few remains have been found from the period 500-0 BC, but Celtic culture became an influence.

This piece of land later became an Anglo-Saxon burial ground, and most likely was previously the location of a Celtic Temple site, in far off times, pre-Roman Conquest.

The first single, " The Celtic Soul Brothers ", reached number 45 on the UK charts but the follow-up, " Come On Eileen ", became a Number One hit not only in the UK, but also in the United States, where it became the biggest-selling single of 1982.

Even if their Etruscan origin be accepted, at the time when the land became known to the Romans, Celtic tribes were already in possession of it and had amalgamated so completely with the original inhabitants that, generally speaking, the Raetians of later times may be regarded as a Celtic people, although non-Celtic tribes ( es.