Celtic Elements in Northwestern Spain 8-10-05

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www.uwm.edu/Dept/celtic/ekeltoi/volumes/vol6/6_10/garcia_quintela_6_10.html

Abstract
The aim of this article is to present a synthetic overview of the state of knowledge regarding the Celtic cultures in the northwestern Iberian Peninsula. It reviews the difficulties linked to the fact that linguists and archaeologists do not agree on this subject, and that the hegemonic view rejects the possibility that these populations can be considered Celtic. On the other hand, the examination of a range of direct sources of evidence, including literary and epigraphic texts, and the application of the method of historical anthropology to the available data, demonstrate the validity of the consideration of Celtic culture in this region, which can be described as a protohistorical society of the Late Iron Age, exhibiting a hierarchical organization based on ritually chosen chiefs whose power was based in part on economic redistribution of resources, together with a priestly elite more or less of the druidic type. However, the method applied cannot on its own answer the questions of when and how this Celtic cultural dimension of the proto-history of the northwestern Iberian Peninsula developed.

[Cerdic]

One of the earliest recorded bishops of the Gallician region was a British Celt, Mailoc by name. Some place names point to British settlements in NW Spain at around the time Brittany was being colonised.

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cerdic said:

One of the earliest recorded bishops of the Gallician region was a British Celt, Mailoc by name. Some place names point to British settlements in NW Spain at around the time Brittany was being colonised.

yea we talked about that a while ago cerdic.but not alot of people have the interest about iberia

[Educate Me]

I dont consider Galicia to be celtic as some do nowdays, for me the only celtic nations are those where people still speak to some degree a celtic language, like ireland or wales etc

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ienjoylurking said:

I dont consider Galicia to be celtic as some do nowdays, for me the only celtic nations are those where people still speak to some degree a celtic language, like ireland or wales etc

and i totally agree.