Forest of Bones

[Cavaros]

The Massacre at Ribemont (with video from the smithsonian channel):



http://balkancelts.wordpress.com/201...e-at-ribemont/

[rashka]

Were the Balkan Celts Balkan Celts, Bastarnae and Galatians part of the Belgae tribes and they fought against each other? I have read that the Balkan Celts did war with each other but I wonder about that.

[Loki]

The Belgae were restricted to northwest Europe.

[Cavaros]

Were the Balkan Celts Balkan Celts, Bastarnae and Galatians part of the Belgae tribes and they fought against each other? I have read that the Balkan Celts did war with each other but I wonder about that.

Most of the Celtic tribes who migrated into Eastern Europe and Asia-Minor in the 4th/3rd c. BC seem to have been Belgae, like the Tectosages, for example. They fought against the Macedonians and later the Romans, but there is no evidence of them fighting against each other.

[Loki]

Most of the Celtic tribes who migrated into Eastern Europe and Asia-Minor in the 4th/3rd c. BC seem to have been Belgae, like the Tectosages, for example. They fought against the Macedonians and later the Romans, but there is no evidence of them fighting against each other.

Please, please don't confuse the general Celtic group with the particular Belgae group. The Belgae were also Celts (we think), but were a group of Celts in northeastern Europe - in areas like Benelux and southern Britain.

[Cavaros]

One of the main tribes who participated in the eastern migration of the 4th/3rd c. BC were the Volcae Tectosages, one of the Belgae tribes, who ‘were named after the tribe in Celtica’ (Strabo xii, 5:1). Of this tribe, Caesar tells us that they had originally been settled north-east of the Rhine, in what is now western and central Germany in the basin of the river Weser, and he mentions that the Volcae Tectosages still remained in western Germany in his day (Caesar BG 6.24):

“And there was formerly a time when the Gauls excelled the Germans in prowess, and waged war on them offensively, and, on account of the great number of their people and the insufficiency of their land, sent colonies over the Rhine.”



The other two groups who accompanied the Volcae in the Galatian migration of 277 BC – the Tolistobogi and Trocmi, are otherwise unknown and we learn that they ‘took their names from their leaders’ (Strabo vii, 5:1), indicating that these were mixed tribal groups. Of vital importance is Strabo’s testimony (loc cit) that ‘all three spoke the same language and differed from each other in no respect’. As the Trocmi and Tolistobogi ‘differed in no respect’ from the Volcae Tectosages, it logically follows that these were also Belgae. Thus, one may conclude that the tribal groups who migrated into Asia-Minor in 277 BC, and subsequently became the Galatians, originated from the Belgae branch of the Celtic group.




http://balkancelts.wordpress.com/2012/06/10/galatia/

[Loki]

Ah I see, I stand corrected. Interesting.