The names of the Celtic Iron Age tribes in Britain were recorded by Roman and Greek historians and geographers, especially Ptolemy. Information from the...
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Romanised culture is termed Roman Britain and is considered to supplant the British Iron Age. The tribes living in Britain during this time are often popularly...
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of this sub-tribe, clan or sept, is not mentioned in Ptolemy's 2nd-century Geography, as are many of the other Iron Age tribes in Britain. It has been...
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Corieltauvi (section Late Iron Age)
Corieltavi) were a Celtic tribe living in Britain prior to the Roman conquest, and thereafter a civitas of Roman Britain. Their territory was in what is now the...
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British Celtic tribe located somewhere within the present-day East Riding of Yorkshire, in England, known from a single brief reference by Ptolemy in...
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The Durotriges were one of the Celtic tribes living in Britain prior to the Roman invasion. The tribe lived in modern Dorset, south Wiltshire, south Somerset...
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Cantiaci (category Tribes involved in Julius Caesar's invasions of Britain)
disposed of his realm in favour of Hengist, whose daughter Vortigern wished to marry". Iron Age tribes in Britain List of Celtic tribes Caesar, Gaius Julius...
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Brittonic: *Carwetī) were a Brittonic Celtic tribe living in what is now Cumbria, in North-West England during the Iron Age, and were subsequently identified as...
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Iron Age Scandinavia (or Nordic Iron Age) was the Iron Age, as it unfolded in Scandinavia. It was preceded by the Nordic Bronze Age. The 6th and 5th centuries...
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became a usurper in the West Roman client kingdoms in Britain Iron Age tribes in Britain Dux Britanniarum Comes Britanniarum Count of the Saxon Shore RIB...
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In Europe, the Iron Age is the last stage of the prehistoric period and the first of the protohistoric periods, which initially meant descriptions of...
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*Ordowīces) were one of the Celtic tribes living in Great Britain before the Roman invasion. Their tribal lands were located in present-day North Wales and England...
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peninsula of Britain, from at least the Iron Age up to the early Saxon period. They were bordered to the east by the Durotriges tribe. William Camden, in his 1607...
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Archaeology of Northern Europe (redirect from Roman Iron Age in northern Europe)
Germanic tribes, from which many Scandinavians returned with gold and silver. A new Iron Age had begun in Northern Europe, the Germanic Iron Age. Roman...
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Dobunni (section Iron Age period)
one of the Iron Age tribes living in the British Isles prior to the Roman conquest of Britain. There are seven known references to the tribe in Roman histories...
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a Celtic people of Iron Age and Roman period, who inhabited modern Pembrokeshire and Carmarthenshire in south-west Wales. The tribe also gave their name...
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Caledonians (category Tribes of ancient Scotland)
administering most of Great Britain as the Roman province of Britannia. The Caledonians, like many Celtic tribes in Britain, were hillfort builders and...
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Regni (category Roman client kingdoms in Britain)
Celtic tribe or group of tribes living in Britain prior to the Roman Conquest, and later a civitas or canton of Roman Britain. They lived in what is...
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western Europe". As its name suggests, the British Iron Age is also characterised by the adoption of iron, a metal which was used to produce a variety...
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Belgae (redirect from Belgic tribes)
important of these tribes in relation to Caesar's campaigns were the Eburones. The other way he used the term was to refer to those related tribes east of the...
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Cornovii (Midlands) (section Dark Age period)
Brittonic: *Cornowī) were a Celtic people of the Iron Age and Roman Britain, who lived principally in the modern English counties of Cheshire, Shropshire...
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Celtic Britons (redirect from British tribes)
Britons is from Greco-Roman writers and dates to the Iron Age. Ancient Britain was made up of many tribes and kingdoms, associated with various hillforts....
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Atrebates (category Tribes of ancient Britain)
tribe of the Iron Age and the Roman period, originally dwelling in the Artois region. After the tribes of Gallia Belgica were defeated by Caesar in 57...
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'rich in grain'. Of the Iron Age tribes who settled in Wales, the tribe best known today were the Welsh pre-Celtic (Goidelic) Silures tribe. From 800...
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The Roman client kingdoms in Britain were native tribes which chose to align themselves with the Roman Empire because they saw it as the best option for...
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British people who apparently lived in the western and southern littoral of Lancashire in England. It is thought likely they were a sept or sub-tribe...
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Cenimagni (category Tribes involved in Julius Caesar's invasions of Britain)
Caesar left Britain he took hostages from the Britons, although which tribes were compelled to give any is not specified. Iron Age tribes in Britain Iceni Cantiaci...
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Votadini (category Tribes of ancient Scotland)
Votādīni, or Otadini were a Brittonic people of the Iron Age in Great Britain. Their territory was in what is now south-east Scotland and north-east England...
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Tegeingl) were one of the Celtic tribes living in Britain, prior to the Roman invasion of the island. The tribe lived in the region near the modern city...
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Catuvellauni (category Tribes conquered by Rome)
Brittonic: *Catu-wellaunī, "war-chiefs") were a Celtic tribe or state of southeastern Britain before the Roman conquest, attested by inscriptions into...
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