were the Gauls,spanish basks and germainian people decendents of the celts???

Answer 1

The Celts originally migrated to Northern Europe from the Iberian Penninsula (i.e. Spain and Protugal) hence another name for Ireland being Hibernia.

They populated both Gaul and many parts of the British Isles, but not the Germanic lands.

Answer 2

Interestngly, possibly except the Germans. They were Germanic. There is a link between the Gauls and the Welsh Celts. It's not rue that the welsh were the ancient britons though. There is a mix in the UK, though most people of UK origin, white, are pretty closely related, except the Vikings in the Shetlands. The Anglo Saxons got the boot from Germany, Lower Saxony by the Visigoths etc coming west, to escape Ghngis Khan and the Mongol hordes spreading west. There's not a lot of roman blood in England and lowland Scotland, despite 4 centuries of Roman occupation as far north as Perthshire. I read some of this in The Sctsman last week, Saturday's issue I think.

Answer 3

Gauls and Basques were Celts. Germans came from farther north, near modern Sweden. Actually, the population probably has little changed, because the number of Gauls was in the millions, whereas each Germanic tribe that crossed the Rhine and Danube probably numbered only 30,000 to 60,000 people. The Vandals actually had to take a census among themselves to figure how many boats they needed to take them from Spain to Roman North Africa. So films are great exaggerations when they show the Roman Empire flooded by Germans, who knock over all the pillars and carry away the dancing girls.

Answer 4

"Gauls" were merely Celts who lived in Gaul. Yes for them.

Basques (note the correct spelling) are one of two racial groups indigenous to Europe that are completely separate from the Indo-European family of races. (The other is the Finnish people.) Basques are a more ancient distinct people than Celts and, therefore, certainly did not descend from them.

Germans (again, note the corrected spelling for your future use) are generally believed to have come into north-central Europe from Scandinavia and the eastern Baltic region. Although members of the Indo-European group like the Celts are, they are not descended from them.

Answer 5

Why do several people here think that the Basks are descendants of Celts? There languages are totally different.

Answer 6

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