[SunkenCiv]

The ruins of numerous ancient Celtic settlements known as castros are still present in Galicia today. Photo: Castro de Baroña by Feans/Flickr

[livius]

“Castro” was actually a Latin word referring to a large military encampment. The Romans, who were all throughout Northern (and Southern) Spain, used it to refer to the fortified towns of the Celts.

[Beowulf9]

Interesting article.

[Zhang Fei]

From the comments:

According to Chinese Communist Party law, this is evidence that Galicia, Asturias, and northern Portugal belong to Ireland. Ireland should begin mobilization immediately.

[Theoria]

Graffiti says R1b wuz here.

[Drango]

I drew my initials in the wet cement that the city poured fixing our sidewalk. My fame will live forever...

[bunkerhill7]

Spanish Armada

[wolfpat]

I thought this was well established fact.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milesians_%28Irish%29

[familyop]

So it was Gaelic before the 1300s, as were France, England, etc., and in the 1300s, there was some Catholic influence. It's an interesting article, but that's not surprising news to me.

"...the first written evidence of the northern region’s Irish and Scottish heritage."

Alright. That's interesting in light of the invention of English in the 600s, about 700 years earlier. Maybe Roman influences kept the Irish fulfilling their duty to party much for all of those years.

[Tax-chick]

One really doesn’t think of the 14th century as “ancient.” It’s just “old.”

[familyop]

The Gaelic speaking folks much earlier migrated from Anatolia (north and northeast of Assyria) to the areas that became Scotland, Ireland, England, Wales, France and maybe more to the north (but not to the south, see Roman writings about, in their perceptions, the evil, elusive, barbaric Gauls). The Spaniards earlier on...? Carthage, Romans.

[Grimmy]

I’ve always thought that the Moorish conquest of Iberia, then the reconquest of same to drive out the Moors did much to establish the current dominance of the language common to modern Spain.

[familyop]

"Up to now, Galicia, along with Asturias and northern Portugal, have been informally considered part of the ancient Celtic nations (Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Brittany, Isle of Man and Cornwall) due to cultural and historical reasons rather than because of written proof."

Ah, I see. Asturias: part of Spain. So, will the extrapolations and speculations get southern whites whiter, and colors, brighter?

[minnesota_bound]

Shamus was here

[Unknowing]

The Santiago church (Saint James church) must now be called Eaglais Naomh Seamas, I reckon. In memory of the Son of Thunder, Matamoros.

[PotatoHeadMick]

I would have thought the great big clue to the area’s celtic/gaelic origins would have been in its very name.

Wales is “Pays de Galles” in French, the language of Scotland is Gallic, the Irish are Gaels, I’m no linguistic expert but there seems to be a bit of a link. Plus the fact that like Wales, Ireland, Cornwall, the Isle of Man, the Scottish highlands an islands, Brittany etc. it’s another one of those rugged little enclaves of northwestern Europe where the Celts all seemed to end up.

You know for such a tough bunch of guys the Celts sure let themselves be pushed out into the fringes by whoever happened to show up later in their homelands.