Celts in Occitanie

Information Ci below, at least their presentation appears astonishing, because the southernmost populations left traces of Visigoths influences, Moorishes and it is well the first time that I read Celtic influences! " The Celtes were relatively very few in Occitanie, but they influenced it deeply. They brought to him the techniques of iron and goldsmithery. It is with them also that one owes a lifestyle which is still prolonged (ex: art of the nap of midday at the Nitiobroges /doubt susbist on this Celtic tradition which was also established in the south of Africa and the Eastern countries, in mesopotamy and in the fertile crescent. The Celts would have gone so far influencing the cultures localeshttp: /www.biblia-cerf.com/BJ/2s4.html?/, current traditions of hunting and fishing, or the use in the music of the " cabretas" and of the " boas".) In spite of their numerical inferiority, the establishment of the Celtic culture was more durable in Occitanie than in other areas of Europe (for comparison: die-celtisation in the north of France by the Germanic populations). One finds two types of settlement Celtic: protoceltes and the Gallic ones.

of 700 with 600 av. J. - C. (perhaps front in the north of Occitanie) the protoceltes of Hallstatienne civilization introduce the use of iron. It is with them that one owes the names in - bone (Seignosse, Hossegor,…). Their practices of the incineration of deaths are incorporated in the local culture.
400 av. J. - C.: the Celts are in front of Marseilles.
300 av. J. - C.: the Gallic ones of the civilization of Tène II conquer Occitanie. The Gallic ones triumph with Clusium (-299 front J. - C.), but are beaten with Sentinum (-295 front J. - C.). New people settle: the Pictons (Poitiers), the Cadurques (Quercy), the Pétrocores (Périgord), the Nitiobroges (Agen),… the Bituriges (creative of Bordeaux) belong to rare Gaulois to be in majority in a place, they do not pay a tribute with the local populations. Except in north (Poitou, Saintonge, the Limousin, Auvergne), the Gallic ones are minority almost everywhere in Occitanie. Their settlement is weak in the Languedoc where they were melted among the Ibères. It is quasi non-existent in Gascogne at theAquitanian ones, in the south of the the Garonne. They do not settle either in Provence and in South-east: populations Ligures were already established in the grounds, while Greeks are on the coast.

Thereafter, from the Celts passed on the territory occitan and will be established in the Iberian peninsula. Mixed with Ibères, they gave rise to the people Celtibère. It is supposed that incursions celtibères took place in Occitanie.

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The Celtic (also called Gallic), of the Celtic group of the languages Indo-European, were established in Occitanie towards the IV E. They knew iron, and were the diffusers of the culture of Tène to most of the Occident. They had a system of clans and resembled to the former Irishmen culturally, so that they imported as a Gaulle the culture of the fields of ballot boxes, like the Egyptians which one is certain that they traded with the cities of Adge and Marseilles!!!.

The principal tribes were:

Volques which occupied Languedoc and were divided into three groups of people:

the Arécomiques which had 24 cities, whose principal one was Nemassos (Nimes); the Tectosages which occupied the territory between the towns of Narbo (Narbonne) and Julia Carcaso (Carcassonne); finally, the Tolosates in the surrounding of Toulouse.

Al, between Isere and the Rhone, combined in Arvernes, were Masters of most of the Dauphine one.
the Cadurques occupied current Quercy and the south-west of Auvergne (departments of the Batch and the Tarn-et-Garonne). Their capital was Divona or Cadurci (Cahors).
the Arvernes, most powerful and known, occupied Puy de Dôme (where they had their sanctuary), the Cantal, Clermont and Saint-Flour. The capital was Nemossos or Gergovia, today Clermont-Ferrand.
the Lémovices occupied the Hollow one and High-Vienna, and capìtale was to them Augustoritum (Limoges).
Belends in the low valley of Ariège.
the Voconces lived as a Gaulle Narbonnaise, between Isere, the Rhone, the Durance and the Alps. The main cities were Vasio (Vaison), Lucus Augustii and Dea Augusta (Die).
the Rutènes occupied the high basins of the Batch and the Tarn. Their capital was Segodunum (Rodez).

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