Ancient Celts before Modern Celts

The Ancient Celts occupied areas from Ireland to Turkey. The first records about the Celts were given by Roman historians and place the first contact between these two groups back to 400 BC. This beginning of “relationship” between Celts and Romans is remarkable by the military superiority of the Celts. They took lands from the Etruscans (who were already subordinate to the Romans at that time) and imposed a siege against Rome itself, demanding a ransom of a thousand pounds of gold. After that, though, History started to take a quite different direction. The Celts were conquered and assimilated by the Romans coming from south and by the Germanic tribes coming from the north. That is when a popular Celtic image was built: one of the Celts as a people always in fight against a conquering nation.

This is a flag that the Modern Celts still wave, as we will show next.

Celtic warrior clothes. (Source: Wikimedia Commons).