List of ancient Celtic peoples and tribes


This is a list of Celtic tribes, listed in order of the Roman province or the general area in which they lived. This geographical distribution of Celtic tribes does not imply that tribes that lived in the same general geographical area were more related. Some tribes' or tribal confederation's names are listed under more than one region because they dwelt in several of the regions.

High Danube-Hercynia

Southern Central Europe, roughly upper Danube river basin and neighboring regions, is hypothesized as the original area of the Celts, corresponding to the Hallstatt Culture.
Some closely fit the concept of a tribe. Others are confederations or even unions of tribes.

Hercynia

Cisalpine Gaul (Gallia Cisalpina)

Cisalpine Gaul, also called Gallia Citerior or Gallia Togata, was the part of Italy continually inhabited by Celts since the 13th century BC. Conquered by the Roman Republic in the 220s BC, it was a Roman province from c. 81 BC until 42 BC, when it was merged into Roman Italy. Until that time, it was considered part of Gaul, precisely that part of Gaul on the "hither side of the Alps", as opposed to Transalpine Gaul.
, meaning literally "Gaul on the other side of the Alps" or "Gaul across the Alps", is approximately modern Belgium, France, Switzerland, Netherlands, and Western Germany. in what would become the Roman provinces of Gallia Narbonensis, Gallia Celtica and Gallia Belgica. Some closely fit the concept of a tribe. Others are confederations or even unions of tribes.
List of peoples of Gaul :

Aquitania Propria (Aquitania Proper)

was the name Romans gave, based on the name of the people: the Britanni. Some closely fit the concept of a tribe but others are confederations or even unions of tribes.

Britain Proper (Britannia Propria)

According to Ptolemy's Geography :
The Celts in the Iberian peninsula were traditionally thought of as living on the edge of the Celtic world of the La Tène culture that defined classical Iron Age Celts. Earlier migrations were Hallstatt in culture and later came La Tène influenced peoples. Celtic or Pre-Celtic cultures and populations existed in great numbers and Iberia experienced one of the highest levels of Celtic settlement in all of Europe. They dwelt in northern, central and western regions of Iberian Peninsula, but also in several southern regions. The Roman province of Hispania included both Celtic speaking and non-Celtic speaking tribes. Some closely fit the concept of a tribe. Others are confederations or even unions of tribes.

Citerior Iberia (Hispania Citerior)

, was a region of Hispania during the Roman Republic, roughly occupying the northeastern coast and the Iberus Valley and later the eastern, central, northern and northwestern areas of the Iberian peninsula in what would become the Tarraconensis Roman province.

Tarraconensis

Hispania Ulterior was a region of Hispania during the Roman Republic, roughly located in what would become the provinces of Baetica and extending to all of Lusitania.

Baetica

Dacia

Some closely fit the concept of a tribe. Others are confederations or even unions of tribes.

Pannonia

Some closely fit the concept of a tribe. Others are confederations or even unions of tribes.
This list includes tribes parts of which migrated to Illyria.
Some closely fit the concept of a tribe. Others are confederations or even unions of tribes.
Some closely fit the concept of a tribe. Others are confederations or even unions of tribes.
In the 3rd century BC, Gauls immigrated from Thrace into the highlands of central Anatolia, that was called Galatia after that. These people, called Galatians, were eventually Hellenized, but retained many of their own traditions. Some closely fit the concept of a tribe. Others are confederations or even unions of tribes.

Bithynia