The region of the Saarland was settled by the Celtic tribes of Treveri and Mediomatrici.

In the second millennium BC, the area of Speyer was settled by the Celtic Mediomatrici.

Hatt considers that the Treveri, along with their neighbours the Mediomatrici, Leuci, and Triboci, " appeared as pilots in the conservation of native Celtic and pre-Celtic traditions ".

The Celtic list between those points is Lingones, Remi, Mediomatrici, Sequani and Raurici.

In historical times, around 300 BC it was the settlement of a Celtic tribe, the Bituriges Vivisci, who named the town Burdigala, probably of Aquitainian origin.

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.

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 Celtic tribe of central Europe must in that case be a final daughter population of a linguistically diversifying ancestor tribe.

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 ).

Cottius, king of the Alpine Salassi tribe and friend of Augustus, after whom were named the Alpes Cottiae Roman province and the Cotini Celtic tribe of the northern Carpathians.

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

In Civilization V: Gods & Kings, Boudicca is the leader of the Celtic 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.

Boiorix, who may have a Celtic name if not a Celticized Germanic name, was king of the Cimbri after they moved away for their ancestral home of northern Jutland ; Boiorix and his tribe lived around Celtic peoples during his era as J.

The Dumnonii or Dumnones were a British Celtic tribe who inhabited Dumnonia, the area now known as Devon and Cornwall in the farther parts of the South West peninsula of Britain, from at least the Iron Age up to the early Saxon period.

Victorian historians often referred to the tribe as the Damnonii, which is also the name of another Celtic people from lowland Scotland, although there are no known links between the two populations.

Geneva was a border town, fortified against the Celtic tribe Helvetii, when the Romans took it in 121 BC.

The Helvetii were a Celtic tribe or tribal confederation occupying most of the Swiss plateau at the time of their contact with the Roman Republic in the 1st century BC.

The Celtic tribe in what is now Luxembourg during and after the La Tène period was known as the Treveri.

The name may be of Celtic origin: Lus and Tanus, " tribe of Lusus ", connecting the name with the personal Celtic name Luso and with the god Lugh.

They, however much they were in disagreement with the late Victorians over the method by which Britain was Germanized, agreed with them that the end result was the complete extinction of the previous Celtic population and civilization.

In the traditionally Celtic lands he was most often seen as a healing and sun god.

He was often equated with Celtic gods of similar character.

By the 6th century BC, the Celtic La Tène culture was well established.

The Celtic King Caratacus assumed that she, along with Claudius, was the martial leader and bowed before her throne with the same homage and gratitude as he accorded the emperor.

This story was later retold with more detail by Geoffrey of Monmouth in his fictionalized Historia Regum Britanniae, conflating the personage of Ambrosius with the Welsh tradition of Merlin the visionary, known for oracular utterances that foretold the coming victories of the native Celtic inhabitants of Britain over the Saxons and the Normans.

Ancient art was largely, but not entirely, based on the nine great ancient civilizations: Egypt, Mesopotamia, Persia, Greece, China, Rome, India, the Celtic peoples, and Maya.

In the Anglosphere, most notably in Anglo-America, autumn is also associated with the Halloween season ( which in turn was influenced by Samhain, a Celtic autumn festival ), and with it a widespread marketing campaign that promotes it, in the U. S. A.

The resident population at this time was generally speaking Brythonic — the insular variety of continental Celtic which was influenced by occupation by the Romans.

At times, Charlton was not on speaking terms with United's other superstars George Best and Denis Law, and Best refused to play in Charlton's testimonial match against Celtic, saying that " to do so would be hypocritical ".

According to Nora Chadwick, in Celtic Ireland " Beltine ( or Beltaine ) was celebrated on 1 May, a spring-time festival of optimism.

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.

Other artists usually considered part of this movement include Hellhammer and Celtic Frost ( from Switzerland ), Kreator, Sodom and Destruction ( from Germany ), Bulldozer and Death SS ( from Italy ), whose vocalist Steve Sylvester was a member of the Ordo Templi Orientis.

Breton artist Alan Stivell was one of the earliest musicians to use the word Celtic and Keltia in his marketing materials, starting in the early 1960's as part of the worldwide folk music revival of that era with the term quickly catching on with other artists worldwide.

The term " Celtic " was first used to describe this language group by Edward Lhuyd in 1707.

Cheddar was listed in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Ceder, meaning " Shear Water ", from the Old English scear and Celtic dwr.

The word clock ( from the Celtic words clocca and clogan, both meaning " bell "), which gradually supersedes " horologe ", suggests that it was the sound of bells which also characterized the prototype mechanical clocks that appeared during the 13th century in Europe.

In some European Celtic or Germanic countries prior to the adoption of Christianity, the ruler upon his election was raised on a shield and, while standing upon it, was borne on the shoulders of several chief men of the nation ( or tribe ) in a procession around his assembled subjects.

They are found in the Celtic region ( Dumnorix: " king of the world "; Kennedy: " ugly head "), in Indo-Aryan languages ( Asvaghosa: " tamer of horses "); in Greek ( Socrates: " good ruler ", Hipparchos: " horse master "; Cleopatra: " from famous lineage ") in Slavic languages ( Vladimir: " great ruler "); in the Germanic languages ( Alfred: " elf-counsel "; Godiva: " gift of God "), and in the Anatolian languages ( Piyama-Radu: " gift of the devotee?

" The second element is manifestly Celtic rīx, " king :" " warrior-king ," which does not imply that the owner of the name is necessarily a legal ruler.