Possible Celtic Forebears/Contemporaries

During the Greco-Persian Wars(500 BC-448 BC) the Aleuads joined the Persians. They began with nearly the foundation of the Roman Republic. The peoples toward the north of the Roman Empire are Keltoskythai (Celtic Scythians). Herodotus gives the name of the land where the Scythians originated as Gerrhos. Assyrian records the Scythians and the Cimmerians as plundering Assyria, Anatolia, Northern Syria, Phoenicia, Damascus, and Philistia. After 625 BCE, however, the Scythians comprised part of the force that sacked Nineveh 612 BC, then left the Median Empire. It is sometimes assumed that the migration of the Cimmerians was triggered by an Iranian expansion, from the area of the former Srubna culture of Late Bronze Age, into the steppes of what is now the Ukraine. Daco-Thracia (2000-560 BC) comprised the regions of modern Romania had post Roman populations.

Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal) - (The Ibero-Celts were most certainly Celts, but heavy influence, firstly from the Iberian Almerian civilisations, then Carthage means they probably should belong to a separate sub-group.

Galatians (there is a suggestion that these people were early Gauls who moved east and later merged with the local population, they allied with locals, the Medes, but retained many of the traditions.

List of peoples of Gaul

List of Celtic tribes

 

These peoples are believed to have strong Celtic associations, though not thoroughly proven to be Celts:

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7,