Breton is a Brythonic language, descended from the Celtic British language brought from Great Britain to Armorica by migrating Britons during the Early Middle Ages.

Early modern scholars derived the name from Lucis, an ancient people mentioned in Avienus ' Ora Maritima and Tan, from Celtic Tan ( Stan ), or Tain, meaning a region or implying a country of waters, a root word that formerly meant a prince or sovereign governor of a region.

The Picts were a group of Late Iron Age and Early Mediaeval Celtic people living in ancient eastern and northern Scotland.

Early Pictish religion is presumed to have resembled Celtic polytheism in general, although only place names remain from the pre-Christian era.

It uses a distinctive form of the general Celtic Early Medieval development of La Tène style with increasing influences from the Insular art of 7th and 8th century Ireland and Northumbria, and then Anglo-Saxon and Irish art as the Early Medieval period continues.

Early Celtic and Saxon cathedrals tended to be of diminutive size, as is the Byzantine so-called Little Metropole Cathedral of Athens.

Early in the 1st century BCE, they adopted the Greek and Roman practice of issuing coinage, adapting the widely imitated gold staters of Philip II of Macedon, in the characteristic Celtic coin metal alloy called billion.

Deforestation continued to the more remote areas as a warmer climate allowed the cultivation even of upland areas. alt = Map of Wales showing the names of Celtic British tribes in their territoriesBy 4000 BP people had begun to bury, or cremate their dead in individual cists, beneath a mound of earth known as a round barrow ; sometimes with a distinctive style of finely decorated pottery – like those at Llanharry ( discovered 1929 ) and at Llandaff ( 1991 ) – that gave rise to the Early Bronze Age being described as Beaker culture.

Myths and Symbols in Pagan Europe: Early Scandinavian and Celtic Religions.

Celtic Christianity or Insular Christianity refers broadly to certain features of Christianity that were common, or held to be common, across the Celtic-speaking world during the Early Middle Ages.

" The Myth of the Celtic Church ", in The Early Church in Wales and the West, Oxbow Monograph, no.

Myths and Symbols in Pagan Europe: Early Scandinavian and Celtic Religions.

The Celtic Poets: Songs and Tales from Early Ireland and Wales Ford and Bailie: Belmont, Mass.

Early Celtic coins were often inspired by the coinage of Greeks in pre-Roman Gaul.

Hill forts developed in the Late Bronze and Early Iron Age, roughly the start of the first millennium BC, and were in use in many Celtic areas of central and western Europe until the Roman conquest.

A Celtic stone carved with cup and rings / channels, known as the Runic Cross ( although there are neither runes on it, nor any evidence that it was a cross shaft ) was found on the slopes of the Leithen valley suggesting that a church existed during the Early Middle Ages.

In the Early Medieval period, the Celtic Christianity of Wales participated in the Insular art of the British Isles and a number of illuminated manuscripts possibly of Welsh origin survive, of which the 8th century Hereford Gospels and Lichfield Gospels are the most notable.

* Hughes, Kathleen, 1974 ' The Welsh Latin chronicles: Annales Cambriae and related texts ', in ( 1980 ) Celtic Britain in the Early Middle Ages, Boydell, pp. 67 – 85.

* Hughes, Kathleen, 1980 ' The A-text of Annales Cambriae, in Celtic Britain in the Early Middle Ages, Boydell, pp. 86 – 100

Bone pipes dating from the Early Bronze Age ( about 3000 BC ) have been found in the Nitra region, testifying to the early role of music in the Celtic ' Nitra Culture '.

The torc first appears in Scythian art from the Early Iron Age, introduced to Celtic Europe around 500 BC ( see also Thraco-Cimmerian ).

Cumbric was a variety of the British language, in the Celtic language group, spoken during the Early Middle Ages in the Hen Ogledd or " Old North ", or what is now northern England and southern Lowland Scotland, the area anciently known as Cumbria.

It is possible that Celtic scholars had similar views of Rome, but Celtic scholarship was much infused with mysticism and poetics, and was in many ways the dominant influence of monastic culture that arose during the Early Middle Ages, spreading from Ireland where Celtic tradition met Christian mysticism and Greek and Latin writings, back to Europe in the form of the many monasteries founded by the Irish monks.

Early Ellington hits, such as Black and Tan Fantasy, Doin ' the Voom Voom, East Saint Louis Toodle-oo and Creole Love Call prominently feature Miley's solo work and were thematically inspired by his melodic ideas, which he, in turn, often borrowed from Baptist hymns sung in his church, such as Stephen Adams ' Holy City.

Crete is associated with the Minoan civilization from the Early Bronze Age.

In the Pauline Epistles the word Christ is so closely associated with Jesus that it is apparent that for the Early Christians there is no need to claim that Jesus is Christ, for that is considered widely accepted among them.

Early epic poetry was also accompanied by music, and pitch changes associated with the accented Greek must have highlighted the melody, though the exact mechanism is still a topic of discussion.

In the Early modern period, the term Flanders was associated with the southern part of the Low Countries: the Southern Netherlands.

Early inhabitants are often associated with the historical Dilmun Civilisation though the historical records of Dilmun are scanty.

Finglas was originally the site of an Early Christian abbey, the origin of which has been associated, from early times, with the name of St. Cainnech, or Canice, the patron of Kilkenny, said to have founded it in 560 A. D.

Early music also forbade usage of the tritone, as its dissonance was associated with the devil, and composers often went to considerable lengths, via musica ficta, to avoid using it.

Interpreting the sculpture in terms of its name, one might trace the origin: " The duty children owed their parents, termed pietas, was associated by Romans with the duty humans owed their gods " ( James S. Jeffers, The Greco-Roman World of the New and Old Testament Era: Exploring the Background of Early Christianity, Downers Grove, Ill. InterVarsity Press, 1999 ).

No inscriptions have yet been found verifying any names of kings that can be associated with the Early Dynastic I period.

Many of the attributes of Xiuhtecuhtli are found associated with Early Postclassic Toltec warriors but clear representations of the god are not common until the Late Postclassic.

In the hills north of the city, there were auxiliary facilities associated with the Distant Early Warning system that are visible from the city but are no longer in use.

Copper retoucheurs to facilitate this process were widely employed in the Early Bronze Age – and may therefore be associated with Beaker Culture in northwestern Europe.

Early in his career, Hamm was associated with Philip Kubicki's Factor basses.

Early nicknames for the university's athletic teams included the " Hawkeyes " ( which is now associated with the University of Iowa ), the " Antelopes " ( which the University of Nebraska at Kearney later adopted ), the " Old Gold Knights ", the " Bugeaters " and the " Mankilling Mastodons ".

Early in the 21st century, businessman Mark Roberts styled himself Lord Marcher of Trellick and purported to acquire the title of Lord Marcher of St. David's from the University of Wales, seeking to assert various associated economic rights including title in half the coastline of Pembrokeshire.

Early generation boogie-woogie players recognized basic boogie-woogie bass lines by geographical locations with which they associated them.

Early intervention to address mathematics difficulties and associated executive functions is crucial.

* Start-up: Early stage firms that need funding for expenses associated with marketing and product development

Early on, remakes were generally regarded as " conversions " and seldom associated with nostalgia.

Early versions of this vehicle were proposed to have taken off from the ground with significant associated nuclear fallout ; later versions were presented for use only in space.

Early media reports of the Columbine High School massacre initially associated the perpetrators ( Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold ) with members of the " Trenchcoat Mafia ," a group of outcasts who allegedly wore conspicuous black Australian oilcloth dusters.

Henges are usually associated with the Late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age, and especially with the pottery of this period: Grooved Ware, Impressed Wares ( formerly known as Peterborough Ware ) and Beakers.

Early correct anti-saccade performance was associated with rostral activation.

* Early July-Archaeologists announce the discovery of possibly the world's second-largest Buddhist stupa ( a holy domed building containing relics or artifacts associated with Buddha ) in Bihar.

Early in 1931 Baldwin resigned from the Labour Party and briefly associated with Oswald Mosley's New Party, but repudiated Mosley after one day and rejoined Labour.