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The Illyrians were influenced by the Celts in many cultural and material aspects and some of them were Celticized, especially the tribes in Dalmatia and the Pannonians. In Slovenia, the Vače situla was discovered in 1882 and attributed to Illyrians.
Illyria, northwestern part of the Balkan Peninsula, inhabited from about the 10th century bce onward by the Illyrians, an Indo-European people. At the height of their power, the Illyrian frontiers extended from the Danube River southward to the Adriatic Sea and from there eastward to the Šar.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
- Celtic Spain?
- The Ancient Celts of Spain
- A Celtic Druid in Galicia
- Celtic-Inspired Festivals
- The Appeal of Celtic Connections
- Acknowledgments
In Galicia, a regional movement has been afoot since about 1981. It fashions itself around an assortment of ancestral people believed to have once populated this northwestern region of Iberia: Celts, matriarchs, healer witches (meigas), naturalists, and pilgrims. Galicians place a lot of nationalistic emphasis on their traditional instrument, the g...
During their expansion from somewhere in the east, a Celt-related people arrived in Spain some 2,500 years ago. How and why these people arrived in Spain is still open to debate. The most likely scenario is one of a mobile people crossing the Pyrenees and fanning out into the peninsula in several waves, not so much of invasion and conquest, but of ...
During a visit in 1997 to Santiago de Compostela, I discovered, on one of the many narrow medieval stone streets, a storefront sign that read Druida. A standard collection of New Age paraphernalia dressed the window: fragrant healing candles, oils, and incense; Galician sculptures of meigas; Celtic scroll designs on paper and carved in stone. Insi...
The people who plan and participate in Celtic revival festivals in Galicia explain that they are motivated by the desire to recover their village’s or their region’s roots before all is lost through modernization and globalization. Many of these festival planners are the young people of a village or region who establish a cultural organization to ...
Belonging has always been important to people, no matter where they hail from. In a world where belonging is not as clear, or perhaps not as tribal and community-driven as it once might have been, revival movements are emerging that reconnect people with values and traditions that appear to be more meaningful and coherent. The great appeal of Celti...
Many thanks to the druid in Santiago de Compostela who generously shared with me his philosophical perspective and low-key Galician warmth. Beebe Bahrami is Expedition’s editor and a cultural anthropologist and writer. Her research in Spain began in 1986 in the south where she studied the persistence of the Andalusian heritage and identity in Sevil...
Oct 1, 2005 · The Celts spread all over Europe including Spain. The presence of the Celts in Spain is attested by a number of Roman historians. Archaeologically, the Spanish Celts were part of the Hallstatt culture in what is now north-central Spain.
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Under Scipio Africanus, the Romans were able to secure alliances and change the allegiances of many Celtiberian tribes, using these allied warriors against the Carthaginian forces and allies in Spain. After the conflict, Rome took possession of the Punic empire in Spain, and some Celtiberians soon challenged the new dominant power that loomed ...
1200BC (or perhaps earlier), some Illyrians begin a movement to Gaul, Spain, England, northern and central Italy, Poland and even Scandinavia. 10th century BC. 1000 BC, Illyrians mining salt in Gmunden, present-day Austria; by 900 BC they had lost their silver mines in Oberzeiring to the Celts. 8th century BC
In classical and late antiquity, Illyria ( / ɪˈlɪəriə /; Ancient Greek: Ἰλλυρία, Illyría or Ἰλλυρίς, Illyrís; [1] [2] Latin: Illyria, [3] Illyricum) [4] was a region in the western part of the Balkan Peninsula inhabited by numerous tribes of people collectively known as the Illyrians . The Ancient Greeks initially used ...
