"Their tribes and groups eventually ranged from the British Isles and northern Spain to as far east as Transylvania, the Black Sea coasts, and Galatia in Anatolia and were in part absorbed into the Roman Empire as Britons, Gauls, Boii, Galatians, and Celtiberians. Pliny the Elder, The Natural History example: C(AIUS) PORCIUS SEVERUS MIROBRIGEN(SIS) CELT(ICUS) -> not just one culture "Celts, a name applied by ancient writers to a population group occupying lands mainly north of the Mediterranean region from Galicia in the west to Galatia in the east Their unity is recognizable by common speech and common artistic traditions" So the Celts, the Galatians and the Gauls were all part of the same Celtic civilisation. The Romans called these people “Gauls”, and this word was used to describe a specific area, bordered by the Atlantic Ocean, the Cévennes and the Rhine: “Gaul”. The word “Celts” was written down for the first time by Greek authors who later also used the word “Galatians”. Not only Scotland was Celtic! Nearly all of Western Europe was (apart from the Greek and Phoenician settlers on the Mediterranean coasts). Later, after the Germanic tribes (also not one people, or a singular group) moved westwards, the Celtic cultures were still counted in the hundreds.
Celtic is a language-family! In the last millennium BC nearly every European ethnic group was in some ways Celtic, and they were not one. The Celtic people are more than one people, more than one culture.
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