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Celtic Place-names The Romans did not stamp everything out. Many places in Europe have Celtic names:
  • Anjou: Andecavi tribe
  • Arras: Atrebates tribe
  • Bayeux: Baiocasses tribe
  • Belgium: Belgae tribe
  • Béarn: Benarnensi
  • Bigorre: Bigerriones
  • Bohemia: Boii tribe.
  • Bordeaux: Burdigala tribe
  • Boulogne: Bononia tribe
  • Cadurci: Cadurques
  • Champagne: Lingon
  • Limoges: Lemovices tribe
  • Denmark: The Goddess Danu
  • Danube: The Goddess Danu
  • Dublin: The Goddess Dubh
  • London: Welsh God Lllud
  • The Camargue: Vatici or Vatiques
  • Lyon & Laon: The God Lugh
  • Medoc:Medulii tribe
  • Nantes: Namnetes tribe
  • Paris: Parisii tribe
  • Poitou: Pictones tribe
  • Rennes: Redones tribe
  • Rheims: Remi tribe
  • Rouen: Rotomagos
  • Sens: Senones tribe
  • Strasbourg: Germanic translation of the Gallic word Argentorate: silver fortress
  • Toulouse: Tolosa tribe
  • Trier: Treveri tribe
  • Touraine:Turones
  • Vannes: Veneti tribe
  • Vienna: Vindobona
  • Iron: Germanic version of the Celtic word iarn.(15, 27)
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