How Did Celtic Warriors End Up in the Heart of Turkey?

Everyone knows the Celts of Ireland, Scotland and Gaul. Almost no one knows that Celtic warriors once crossed all the way into the heart of what is now Turkey, and built a kingdom there that outlasted their cousins in the west.

This is the full story of the Celtic world at its astonishing reach, from the rain soaked edge of Ireland all the way to central Anatolia. We follow the Celts from their Iron Age beginnings in the Alps, through their great expansion across Europe, into their long and brutal clash with Rome, and out to the two far edges of their world: the Celtiberians of Spain, and the Galatians of Turkey.

At the centre of it all sits Galatia. Around 278 BC three Celtic tribes crossed into Asia Minor, settled around Ancyra, modern Ankara, governed themselves from a sacred oak grove, and were still speaking a Celtic language there in the days of Saint Jerome, more than six hundred years later. It is one of the strangest and most forgotten corners of the entire Celtic story, and it is the reason the famous Dying Gaul statue is not quite what most people assume.

Along the way we ask who the Celts really were, what the latest ancient DNA actually reveals about where they came from, and how, against every odd, a people with no empire and no nation refused to disappear.

Chapters:
0:00 A People Who Never Named Themselves
0:52 Who Were the Celts, Really?
1:40 Where Did They Come From?
2:25 Hallstatt: Salt and the First Celts
3:12 The Golden Prince of Hochdorf
3:54 La Tene: Fingerprint of a Civilisation
4:47 The Great Celtic Expansion
5:54 Woe to the Conquered: Rome Is Sacked
6:55 The Two Far Edges: Spain and Turkey
7:47 How the Celts Reached the Heart of Turkey
10:46 The Dying Gaul and the Fall of Galatia
12:37 Caesar and the Conquest of Gaul
14:17 The Slow Erasure
14:57 The Lands Rome Never Took
16:04 How Brittany Became Celtic
16:38 The Six Celtic Nations Today
18:08 What the DNA Reveals
19:04 Your Celtic Story

Selected sources and further reading:
Julius Caesar, Commentaries on the Gallic War
Stephen Mitchell, Anatolia: Land, Men and Gods in Asia Minor
Barry Cunliffe and John Koch, Celtic from the West
The Dying Gaul, Capitoline Museums, Rome
Terracotta of a war elephant trampling a Galatian, from Myrina, Louvre, Paris
Saint Jerome, Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians
Patterson et al. 2022, Large scale migration into Britain during the Middle to Late Bronze Age, Nature
2021 Census and the Cymraeg 2050 strategy, Welsh Government
Office Public de la Langue Bretonne

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