Dne úterý 31. srpna 1999 9:00:00 UTC+2 Miguel Sanchez napsal(a):

Does anyone know whether there is a connection between the Gauls in the
area now known as Ukraine and the Western Province known as Galicia? I Galicia is right to the east, of the so called origin of the Celts, the Urnfeld or Halstatt culture in Bohemia.

Miguel Sanchez,
You know very little about Bohemia (I am from). We have quite strong Celtic-German-Slavic continuity. In archeology, local names, and even originally celtic stories of gods. As You write "in the time of Caesar the Bohemia was deserted by Celts" You are
simply using one Roman source which is in contrary with many more other Roman sources. Simply it is not true. The first german king who defeated previous celtic king was Marobud. He has celtic name and it is written that he was creating "multi-tribe
kingdom". His name "Great Victor" is connected much more to the victorious defending war with Rome 6 BC. In the 2nd century another Marcomanic (German) king Balomar was again king of "muti-tribe" and has celtic name again.
Our old czech stories are celtic. King Crocco, the coin with name Crocco was found in celtic oppidum. There is even description of samhain rites at the greatest oppidum close to Prague and the story is connected with sun positions in landscape... There
are more old mythological stories from celtic time we have. Much more You should think of changing of society during time. Nowadays czech historians are calling people of erly medieval Czech state as "Bohemians" which means the people were some sort of
language and cultural mixture.

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Dne úterý 31. srpna 1999 9:00:00 UTC+2 Miguel Sanchez napsal(a):

Does anyone know whether there is a connection between the Gauls in the
area now known as Ukraine and the Western Province known as Galicia? I Galicia is right to the east, of the so called origin of the Celts, the Urnfeld or Halstatt culture in Bohemia.

The area of southeastern Poland and western Ukraine was called Galicia. If we talk about the time of 2nd century AD (Roman map of Ptolemy) Surely there were celtic tribes in the Slovak republic - in area along the middle age area called Galicia. If You
are thinking about landscape than there is allways the atractive fertile land as Hungary for example and not atractive - not so fertile land as Slovak mountains. It is something like island or mountain "escape land". That is as well the area of northern
Slovak republic and the middle age name Galicia. The newest attitude towards sources (Ptolemy map, local names, archeology) is again thinking of Celts mixing with Slavs in this Gallicia in the early middle age. When thinking of local celtic names look
for the rivers ending with "AVA". But this can take You probably to the time of Great Celtic Expansion of 400 BC... and things changed later...

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среда, 1 сентября 1999 г. в 11:00:00 UTC+4, Sawi:

I don't know much about Galicia in Ukraine, but there is large area in south-east Poland - Galicja with Cracow in it(it's next to ukrainian border but still in Poland!) and when it comes to the celts, in this area there
were some for sure - there are still cities like Legnica(Poland),which name comes from god -LUG, and holy mountains like Sleza where they are belived to live long time ago. but it's 200km away from Galicja.
hope you'll find something
Marcin

Does anyone know whether there is a connection between the Gauls in the area now known as Ukraine and the Western Province known as Galicia? I Galicia is right to the east, of the so called origin of the Celts, the Urnfeld or Halstatt culture in Bohemia.

The north-eastern territories of La-Tene Culture ( associated with the Gauls) are now part of Western Ukraine, especially the land to the west from the Carpatian Mountains

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вторник, 31 августа 1999 г. в 11:00:00 UTC+4, Miguel Sanchez:

Does anyone know whether there is a connection between the Gauls in the
area now known as Ukraine and the Western Province known as Galicia? I Galicia is right to the east, of the so called origin of the Celts, the Urnfeld or Halstatt culture in Bohemia.

The north-eastern territories of the La Tène culture (associated with the Gauls) are now part of Western Ukraine, especially the land west of the Carpathian Mountains.

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