Ancient Celtic place-names in Europe and Asia Minor.
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Ancient Celtic place-names in Europe and Asia Minor Asia Minor, great peninsula, c.250,000 sq mi (647,500 sq km), extreme W Asia, generally coterminous with Asian Turkey, also called Anatolia. It is washed by the Black Sea in the north, the Mediterranean Sea in the south, and the Aegean Sea in the west. .
Sims-Williams, Patrick.
Blackwell Publishing
2006
406 pages
$39.95
Paperback
Publications of the Philological Society A society in Great Britain dedicated to the study of language.
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Those who believed the Celts The following pages provide lists of nations or people of Celtic origin, arranged by branch of Celtic ethnicity or language grouping:
Goidelic Celts - list of Irish people
- list of Scots
- list of Manx people
Brythonic Celts pretty much stayed home and knitted
bulky sweaters should catch up with this survey of over 20,000 names
ranging from Ireland to the Black Sea. Sims-Williams (Welsh, U. of
Wales Wales, Welsh Cymru, western peninsula and political division (principality) of Great Britain (1991 pop. 2,798,200), 8,016 sq mi (20,761 sq km), west of England; politically united with England since 1536. The capital is Cardiff. , Aberystwyth), working with participants in the
"Ptolemy" workshops, has located Celtic names far from what
common knowledge has told us about the range of their progenitors - This article refers to the Star Trek race, and not a Convention with the same name in the in the role-playing game.
The Progenitors were a race of fictional beings in the Star Trek Universe created by Gene Roddenberry. , and
includes sites in Corsica and the Euphrates and tribe names in Central
Asia. Sims-Williams provides an introduction to the ways of identifying
Celtic names and describes the database approach, showing how
coincidence figures and how he and others identified Celtic-looking
strings and elements. He then covers place-names by latitude, ranging
from northern Europe to the less-obvious in Africa and Asia. He offers
ideas for further research.
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