by Juergen and Angelika Gawend. The dominant view for many decades has been that the Celts lived only in the area of southern Germany and Switzerland.

This chapter outlines the history and nature of the Celts from the ancient period to the ... from the Celtic root for "people"), emigrated east and settled in territory in Germany.

... is today to a bit further south than Geneva and took in parts of modern day West Germany and Switzerland. It was an area a little bigger than the island of Ireland. The Celts then ...

Some scholars think that the Urnfield culture of northern Germany and the Netherlands represents an origin for the Celts as a distinct cultural branch of the Indo-European family.

The earliest archaeological evidence associated with the Celts places them in what is now France and western Germany in the late Bronze Age, around 1200 bc.

Celts Encyclopædia Orbis Latini. A group of Indo-European peoples first found early in the 2d millennium B.C. in South-Western Germany and Eastern France.

By 500 BC they were living in northeastern France, southwestern Germany, and Bohemia. The Celts, who were also called Gauls, continued to migrate in all directions.

In 55 and again in 53 he bridges the Rhine for brief campaigns into Germany. Twice in the same period he crosses the Channel to test the mettle of the Celts in Britain.

The Celts left their legacy behind in Britain, Ireland, Spain, France, southern Germany and the Alpine lands, Bohemia, Italy, the Balkans and even central Turkey.

Developing in the Alps of central Europe, the Celts spread their culture across modern-day Germany and France and into the Balkans as far as Turkey.