The first part " baio " refers to the name of the Celtic Boii tribe, which also resolved into the regional name Bohemia ( Germanic latinised boio-hemum = home of the Boier tribe ).

In the Middle Ages the Bavarians were considered the descendants of the Celtic Boii tribe.

Over the last half of the 20th century, historical and archaeological research has increasingly supported the theory that the remnants of the Celtic Boii were absorbed into the Roman Empire and later intermingled with other Germanic peoples who chose to stay ( or were stationed by the Romans ) in the area.

The Boii ( Latin plural, singular Boius ; Greek ) were one of the most prominent ancient Celtic tribes of the later Iron Age, attested at various times in Cisalpine Gaul ( northern Italy ), Pannonia ( Hungary and its western neighbours ), in and around Bohemia, and Transalpine Gaul.

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 " warrior " derivation was adopted by the linguist, Julius Pokorny, who presented it as being from Indo-European * bhei ( ə )-, * bhī -, " hit ;" however, not finding any Celtic names close to it ( except for the Boii ), he adduces examples somewhat more widely from originals further back in time: phohiio-s -, a Venetic personal name ; Boioi, an Illyrian tribe ; Boiōtoi, a Greek tribal name (" the Boeotians ") and a few others.

The burial rites of the Italian Boii show many similarities with contemporary Bohemia, such as inhumation, which was uncommon with the other Cisalpine Gauls, or the absence of the typically western Celtic torcs.

* Bavarii, Bajuwari, Baiwaren, Bajuwaren tribe of Bavaria, The first part " baio " refers to the name of the Celtic Boii tribe,

The name " Bohemia " derives from the Latin term for the Celtic tribe inhabiting that area, the Boii, who were called Boiohaemum in the early Middle Ages.

The variant English name " Bohemian " was used until the late 19th century, reflecting the original English name of the Czech state derived from the Celtic tribe of Boii who inhabited the area since the 4th century BC.

The known Cimbri chiefs have names that look Celtic, including Boiorix ( which may mean " King of the Boii " or, more literally, " King of Strikers "), Gaesorix ( which means " Spear King "), and Lugius ( which may be named after the Celtic god Lugus ), although this may not mean that they are Celtic as the elements could work in Germanic ( compare the name of the Vandalic king Gaiseric, which is likely identical to Gaesorix ).

After several unsuccessful battles with the Boii and other Celtic tribes, they appeared ca 113 BC in Noricum, where they invaded the lands of one of Rome's allies, the Taurisci.

This city was founded by the Celtic Boii.

Pliny lists the following Celtic tribes as living in the area: the Aedui and Carnuteni as having treaties with Rome ; the Meldi and Secusiani as having some measure of independence ; and the Boii, Senones, Aulerci ( both the Eburovices and Cenomani ), the Parisii, Tricasses, Andicavi, Viducasses, Bodiocasses, Veneti, Coriosvelites, Diablinti, Rhedones, Turones, and the Atseui.

Burebista led a policy of conquest of new territories: in 60 / 59 BC, he attacked and vanquished the Celtic tribes of Boii and Taurisci, who dwelt along the Middle Danube and in what is now Slovakia.

The pass first appears in history as the route taken by the Celtic tribes of the Boii and Lingones in the invasion of Italy of 390 BC.

Celts ( more exactly the tribe of Boii ) formed between 125 – 50 BC an important Celtic oppidum ( fortified town ) with a mint on area of castle hill and historical centre.

Several archaeological finds testify to the presence of Liguri, Boii ( Gauls of Celtic origin ), and from the fourteenth century B. C.

On its basis, Lengyel and Radan ( 1980 ), Hoddinott ( 1981 ) and Mountain ( 1998 ) consider that the Geto-Dacians inhabited both sides of the Tisza river before the rise of the Celtic Boii and again after the latter were defeated by the Dacians.

400 BC ; and a sophisticated kingdom of the Boii Celtic tribe.

Karol Pieta's discussion of the ethnicity of the Puchov people shows that opinion is divided between those who attribute the culture to a Celtic group – the Boii or Cotini are the leading candidates – and those who favour a Germanic group e. g the Buri.

With a proconsular Imperium, he had absolute authority within these provinces and had defeated through an initially unsuccessful campaign, the Celtic tribes of Northern Italy ( Insubres, Boii, Taurini, Venetii ).

180 BC, he describes them then as " similar in language and customs " to the Scordisci, a tribe of Illyria described as Celtic by Strabo ( although he adds that they had mingled with Illyrians and Thracians ).

The Celtic Scordisci tribe conquered most of Serbia in 279 BC, building many forts throughout the region.

In parts of Moesia ( northeast Serbia ) the Celtic Scordisci and Thracians lived beside each other, evident in the archaeological findings of pits and treasures, spanning from the 3rd century BC to 1st century BC.

The first Celtic settlements in Taurunum area originate from the 3rd century BC when the Scordisci occupied several Thracian and Dacian areas of the Danube.

Those agricultural settlements were replaced by the emerging Thracians and then the invading Celtic Scordisci in 279 BC.

First known inhabitants of this area were various peoples of Illyrian and Celtic origin, such as the Amantini, Breuci, Scordisci, etc.

The Paleo-Balkan tribes of Dacians and Thracians emerged in the area in the 2nd millennia BC, with the Celtic Scordisci raiding the Balkans in the 3rd century BC.

An example is the Scordisci tribe of Moesia Superior, reported by the ancient historian Livy to be Celtic-speaking and whose culture displays Celtic features.

In parts of Moesia ( northeast Central Serbia ) the Celtic Scordisci and Thracians lived besides each other, which is evident in the archeological findings of pits and treasures, spanning from 3rd century BC to 1st century BC.

The city was firstly mentioned in the 4th century BC and was originally inhabited by the Illyrians and Celts ( i. e. by the Pannonian-Illyrian Amantini and the Celtic Scordisci ).

the Celtic tribe of Scordisci who had defeated Thracian and Dacian tribes that previously lived at the fort and around.

Following 279 BC, the Scordisci ( a Celtic tribe ), who had been defeated at Delphi, settled at the confluence of the rivers Sava and Danube and they extended their rule over the southern parts of Transdanubia.

It was recorded that a Celtic tribe, the Scordisci, settled the area in the 3rd century BC following the Gallic invasion of the Balkans.

For singi-there are several theories, the two most widely circulated being that it is a Celtic word for circle, hence " round fort ", or it could be named after the Sings, a Thracian tribe that occupied the area prior to the arrival of the Scordisci .. Another possibility is that it is a composite name the first part of which ( Sin-gi ) means " Old prayer " (" sean gui " in Gaelic ), implying that this was originally site of Celtic religious significance, in addition to becoming a fortress ( dun ).

The Celtic Invasions of Greece in 279 BC formed the sub-Celtic group of Scordisci who would according to Strabo, defeat and push the powerful Triballians towards the Getae, the Scordisci self-rule in different regions of Serbia gradually ended with the Roman conquest of the Balkans in the 1st century AD.

The tribes of Autariatae and the Celtic Scordisci are thought to have merged into one in the Lower Morava valley, after 313 BC, since excavations show that the two groups made burials at the same exact grave field in Pecine, near Kostolac.

Before the coming of the Romans ( c. 200 BC ), the Taurisci dwelt in the north of Carniola, the Pannonians in the southeast, the Iapodes or Carni, a Celtic tribe, in the southwest.

The Roman history of Styria is as part of Noricum and Pannonia, with the romanized Celtic population of the Taurisci.

* The Cimbri and Teutones cross the Danube and enter the lands of the Celtic tribe, the Taurisci.

Archeological evidence of typical Celtic culture is documented only in the marginal contact zone of the Iapydes and the Celtic Taurisci along the Kupa river valley ( now the Slovenian-Croatian border ).

Significant Celtic elements survived there into the 2nd century AD: Ptolemy ( III. 8. 3 ) lists two Celtic peoples, the Taurisci and Anartes, as resident in the northernmost part of Dacia, in the northern Carpathians.

Around that time, the northern parts of Transdanubia were ruled by the Taurisci ( also a Celtic tribe ) and by 230 BC, Celtic peoples ( the peoples of the La Tène culture ) had occupied gradually the whole territory of the Great Hungarian Plain.

Burebista subjugated the Taurisci and the Anarti ; in the process, he confronted the Celtic tribal alliance led by the Boii.

An affiliation with the Celtic Taurisci people or the Roman city of Teurnia is uncertain.

The unoccupied sections of Decebal's kingdom are likely to have been inhabited predominantly by ethnic Dacians, although according to Ptolemy, the northernmost part of the kingdom ( northern Carpathians / Bukovina ) was shared by non-Dacian tribes: the Anartes and the Taurisci, who were probably Celtic, and the Germanic Bastarnae are also attested in this region.