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Os celtas da antiga Gallaecia

By Manuel Alberro

About this book

This is an interdisciplinary study synthesising all we know about this topic and comparing the Celtic world in the Atlantic countries. A very valuable reference book with ample bibliography that will help all those interested in further studying this field. The book also includes a selection of illustrations, some of them spectacular and never seen before.

Book fragment

During the period between the 5th and 3rd century b.C., a series of large Celtic expansionist migratory movements took place from their initial settlement to the North of the Alps. Some of them went South to the Po Valley in the North of Italy and others travelled West to the Gaul and the Iberian peninsula while others travelled along the Danube to the East until Umbria, Greece and Turkey (Galatia) and Asia Minor. Later on, after a series of incursions, the Celts occupied most of the British Isles, Ireland included. In the 4th century b.C., the Celts were considered by Mediterranean cultures as one of the great peripheral nations of the known world. The fruitful archaeological works that are still underway clearly confirm the importance of the Celts at that time.

The Celtic peoples’ luck started changing by the end of the 3rd century b.C. as they started being threatened by the numerous German peoples and they were defeated in Telamon by the Romans in 225 b.C., and the Romans continued slowly occupying the former Celtic European territories.