Galatia - The Celts of Anatolia

The celts are a group of people that are usually linked with western Europe. However, how and why did the Celts end up in Anatolia?

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Håkan Glänte "Sound of the Cornu" "Moment of the Battle" "The sound of Destiny" & "Civil War"

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#Ancient_History #Celts #Anatolia

War Footage:

[TheManFromWaco]

Greeks: "Funneling a numerically superior enemy into the chokepoint of Thermopylae, it works every time! Or at least it will work this time since we are also properly guarding the secret pass!"
[Nervous murmuring]
Greeks: We *DID* properly guard the secret pass? RIGHT GUYS?

[simonbirch]

In terms of quality and covering more niche aspects of history this is my favourite history channel on YouTube

[Anatolikon]

As a Turk, I can say that the rate of blonde and green-eyed people in Anatolian provinces and districts such as Ankara, Yozgat and Çorum, where Galatians live, is very high compared to other Anatolian regions. Apparently, the Galatians are still alive in our blood, like the Phrygians, Lydians, Hittites, Greeks, Bithynians and dozens of others.

[mukhumor]

One of Turkeys top Football teams is called Galata Saray... Palace of the Galatians

[TheLastKentuckyIrregular]

The Sack of Delphi is a very interesting historical occurrence. The Greeks have never admitted that the temples fell, yet both the Celts and Romans believed differently and spent considerable time searchign for the lost treasure of Delphi that the Celts supposedly hid after their defeat.

[StrudelerOfTheTSociety]

I love Celtic history. I'm now planning a Galatia mod for Civilization VI thanks to this lecture.

[ycylchgames]

Fun fact, theres a town called Bala in both north Wales and modern Galatia and apparently both names are derived from the same route word.

[denizergun]

Those cities didn't found by Galatians, rather settled by Galatians. Ankara for example inhabited since Hatti city states, and also Greekness of these central regions in Early Hellenistic period is depend on how you look at them. Overall population were still more native than Greek, Pessinus was like a theocratic city state based on Cybele (mother goddess native to Asia Minor) cult. Of course Greek culture overcame in time but remember even as late as 5th-6th century AD there were still communities whom maintained there non-Greek language and heritage. I feel these issues are usually neglected outside the academic circles, anyway nice video nonetheless.

[calum]

This is one of my fav videos of ours. Good work on the editing!

[Asamations]

Keep these videos coming Know History. You are doing really well!

[Mr_M_History]

Dude your quality is getting so good. Such outstanding content!

[aaln]

Being born and spent 30 years of my life in Ankara, I find this video fascinating.

[robbabcock_]

Terrific video! Very well researched and the animations are great.

[georgekoutsikos]

Gauls invaded and looted the largest part of Greece. They succeeded to surpass Spercheios river and the Thermopylae with the same strategic way of the secret passage behind its mountain. Eventually they were defeated and devastated in the battle of Delphi and mostly in the battle of Kokkalia.
Kokkalia is an area in my homeland, on the mountain range between mt Tymfristos and mt Grammeni Oxia (now the border between Evrytania and Fthiotis prefects).
For years the farmers were founding small traces of bones in the area and some metallic broken parts of weaponry.
Kokkalia derives from Kokkala:bones.
279 BC

[carlustin]

Sophia the capital of Bulgaria old name is Serdika. The Celtic tribe Serdi had a settlement there.City Vidin on Danube also was Celtic settlement called Bdin. Bulgarians use that name also. There immerged tribes which were mixed thraco-celtic in the region from Danube river down to the city of Thessaloniki. Celts also had 60 years survived kingdom in Eastern Thrace.

[apmoy]

By the First century AD, the Gauls of Anatolian Galatia had been completeley Hellenised, hence the epistle to the Galatians written in Greek by Paul, written between 48-53 AD

[sekipkoc]

in the village where my parents grow up about 100km in the east of ankara i can remember that i was wondering about seeing this blonde haired girl with blue eyes between dark haired people , blonde hairs are realy unusual there^^ both parents are dark haired . im dark haired too but i got a few red hairs in my beard =)

[ilkererol]

They were speaking Celtic at home, speaking Greek in public and using Latin for formal things.
You can still see red orange haired people around Ankara. They say they are remnants of Celtic people

[luongo]

Are you Portuguese? When I visited your beautiful land, I attended an out door Celtic festival and was told that in the northern region, there are lots of Celtic people still living there. Is this true?

[universetraveler]

Correction:
Ankara was not founded by Celts. It was founded by Anatolian tribes, and later became a Greek city, hence the name “Ánkyra” (Greek for Anchor). When the Celts took control they were much smaller in number compared to the overall population of Ankara, and thus quickly adopted the Greek ethnicity.