Origins of the Iberian Celts
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- An exploration of the origins of the Celts of Spain and Portugal, looking at genetics, archaeology, Roman historical sources and their continuity with the modern population.
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Thank you from a Celt from Portus Cale. :) My grandparents were from Viana do Castelo, northern Portugal, which still maintains a Celtic Folk Festival.
Good to meet you.
We, the Portuguese people, are very proud of our genetic heritage, resulting from many peoples who invaded Iberia, including the Phoenicians, Visigoths, Celts, Moors, Greeks, Romans, etc.We have always been in a maritime passage region, to the North of Europe and to the South, in the Mediterranean.
Me too, Grand father from Viana Do Castelo, Gallaecia Bracarensis, Grand Mother, Culleredo. A Coruña (Gallaecia Lucensis) 😁
@@luisoliveira8202 Galicia and (northern) Portugal should never have separated. We are one. ;) I feel at home when I visit Galicia and Viana do Castelo is always in my heart, although I was born and raised in Porto.
@@zitarodrigues7336 t- I like all that, only that Greek or Roman didn't settle in Iberia in great numbers.
The richness of Spain is endless, a whole continent in a single country
Many places in Spain and Portugal still keep rituals and spirirual beliefs, folklore that are practically identical with the ones practiced in Ireland and Wales and France, and which are of Celtic origin. The Catholic church couldn't quite erase them and were adopted a under the varnish of worship to Saints and Virgins. Some Spanish family names keep their Celtic roots, those ending in -briga, for instance.
The lusitanii tribe were the biggest resistance in iberia against the romans. And they are to this day our heroes (Portugal)
"viriato" 🇵🇹🇫🇷
Ancient Lusitanians occupied some regions of central Portugal, Extremadura and Zamora, Most of the war was developed in other areas of what it's now South and central Spain the nationalistic aspirations of pretending that Viriato was a proto Portuguese or prot spanish are rubbish.
@@carlosbah4623 Not South Spain. Unless you don't know the boarders of Lusitania (which include ALL of southern and central Portugal). And the Lusitanians have as much chance of being proto portuguese as the Caelleci (which occupied northern Portugal and present day Galicia). Along wiht the Suebi......which had their capital in present day Braga........are the suebi proto portuguese? The OBVIOUSLY influenced the culture there. Portugal and Spain weren't born out of thin air........they have peoples that shaped them. If the Lusitanians play no part in that.....then neither do any of the other people that lived there.
@jeanlundi2141 Spain and Portugal have nothing to do with those ancient people. They were born from medieval kingdoms, forked from the old Asturian kingdom. They have their origin in the medieval times, despite nationalistic claims, sometimes backed by foreign interests...
I lived in Spain....and it was so mystical....very Celtic ....you could feel it.....gorgeous country ..so many climates.
Cantabria is beautiful. Guys, you should visit it sometime. Galicia aswell
But specially everything in between.
No hun, Anthony Bourdain said the Asturias mountains was the most beautiful place he ever traveled to in one of his last episodes of Parts Unknown.
I’m Portuguese, and really enjoyed this video… thank you
Awesome content! Best way to start off the day❤
Being a Bragaerae, since kid I always felt a great attraction for Ireland and Scotland, I even used to dream with those places, it was like I was dreaming with an ancient home village...
It's a romantic sentiment, an emotion. Legitimate but irrational.
@@KrlKngMrtssn Microbs were just something irracional not even 100 years ago.
Je suis attiré par l Irlande et fascinée depuis mes 11ans...et je ne comprenais pas pourquoi.
C est quand j ai vu un film et à l âge de 11 ans, je suis tombé amoureuse et j en n est 55ans! Et ma famille viens de tras dos montes, bisous à tout les portugais dans le monde 🇵🇹🇫🇷
I love this channel man I'm obsessed with my Celtic heritage I live East Dunbartonshire in Scotland and I can still feel the echoes of my ancestors and how they resisted the romans. Great place to run my region.
Very interesting vid.
As a native Scot with 50% Celtic, 24% Scandinavian and 20% Briton, I feel for the Iberian Celts. The native populations are being decimated faster now than at any time in history.
We've lost our languages, most of our cultures, and now we're being removed from the gene pool.
Do not go gently into that good night.
The britons were celts. So you’re 70% Celtic
you still see the Celtic legacy in the north of Spain & Portugal. blond hair, blue eyes and fair skin is not uncommon in the Iberian peninsula, the further north you go.
@@bconni2 Those are mostly visigothic and english, french and other immigrant heritage.
@@MannyKnowsYourSecretsles celtes était aussi beaucoup roux, aux, yeux bleu, verts...
Et je suis du nord... Très blanche aux yeux amande noisettes et beaucoup dans ma famille sont aux yeux bleus, verts et aussi du roux.
Thank you for drawing my eyes back into this fascinating past. You are much improved at it
🇪🇸 Las tribus hispánicas, celtas, íberos, celtiberos, turdulos, lusitanos y otras más lucharon y resistieron a los romanos durante 200 años. Numancia es el símbolo de la resistencia y el sacrificio de un pueblo ante el invasor.
Son nuestras verdaderas raíces étnicas y culturales no perderlas nunca!!.
celtas ibericos, uníos contra el vasallaje romano al igual que trato Inglaterra con Boudicca (desafortunadamente perdio, pero su memoria de rebeldía persiste!).
@@BETOETECassius among other classic historians was an unreliable narrator writing centuries after the fact, with an agenda to write off any Roman loses as flukes or treachery rather than any legitimate strength of the opposing force.
Why did Rome lose Britannia? B-because we were too busy! _(Ignore the fact that the province was like half a century old at this point- implying the romanization effort barely reached past the settlements)_
Why did Rome lose Germania? B-because those damn barbarians were incapable of being civilized! _(ignore the fact that most rebellions were Romanized Germans who described living conditions in the empire as worse than slavery-Bavati revolt for example)_
Es interesante que Numancia (y como el video menciona las ciudades celtas mas importantes se hallaban en el centro de la peninsula) esta en Soria, los mayores y mas claros restos arqueologicos ‘celtas’ se han encontrado en diferentes partes de lo que ahora es Soria, Zaragoza. Los mejores ejemplos de escritura celta se han encontrado en Zaragoza (Botorrita, se muestran en este video), pero seguimos hablando mayoritariamente de Galicia y Asturias como regiones celtas. Pseudo historia. El video espero haya abierto la mente de algunos. Aunque por los comentarios que leo no lo parece.
@@raulpascual3947 no se olvide Braga.
My dad a Celtic lineage from Ireland The Silures are" Celtic from Welsh Scotland area's we have tribal/Clan paperwork📄that say's spain had some of the Celtic's before Ireland😮.
😂 You are NOT Celtic ! You are a mix . My Celtic folk do not accept half breeds ! 🤣
This is such an interesting video. I am of Spanish heritage and some of my DNA is actually Celtic in origin. I was raised in north central Spain in Salamanca, and I remember the history classes mentioning the Celtic presence in that area. There were stone figures called “verracos”, or male pigs near the Roman Bridge over the Tormes River at what was the southern entrance of the city at that time (the 1960’s). I believe these still stand today. These stone figures were all over the province and in nearby Avila and Segovia. These were attributed to the vacceos which were thought to be Celtic in origin. At that time there was not much interest in the Celtic heritage in Spain, other than the Galician and Asturian bagpipe music of the North. The academic stance at the time was that Spain was not generally considered to have much Celtic ancestry, in fact it was argued that their sparse presence was not relevant enough because they were mostly absorbed by the local tribes which were called Iberians. Most of the ancient pre-history at that time centered around these people and the Tartessians that settled in the south. I am very glad that there is a renewed interest in this topic and that dogmas considered true in the past have been proven wrong.
Los verracos corresponden en su gran mayoría a los vettones. Los verracos son algo exclusivo de los vettones, pueblo celtibérico establecido en las actuales provincias de Ávila, Salamanca, el sur de Zamora, el oeste de Toledo y el norte de Cáceres, aunque ya sabemos que es difícil delimitar con precisión los territorios que abarcaba cada tribu. De los últimos encontrados en el yacimiento de “El Gordo” se ubica en la cima del pico homónimo, a una altitud de 998 metros sobre el nivel del mar, delimitando los términos municipales de Plasencia, Oliva de Plasencia y Cabezabellosa. Tienes también unas ESTELAS, reproducen guerreros celtas con sus ornamentos y armas en Torrejón el Rubio. También se han hallado otros dos verracos en Botija (Cáceres) y otro en Segura de Toro.
En realidad no es en el norte dónde habían CELTAS era en la parte OCCIDENTAL DE LA PENÍNSULA y hay más restos arqueológicos en EXTREMADURA que en todo el NORTE junto, por algo los VETTONES, los LUSITANOS y los CELTICI estaban en esa zona. El ‘Tesoro de Berzocana’, conjunto de dos torques (collares en forma de herradura circular) decoradas de oro macizo de 24 quilates y la pátera (plato o vasija poco profunda) de bronce que al parecer las contuvo. Estos pueblos se dividían entre los de origen celta y los de origen íbero.Los que habitaban la zona de las Villuercas, Jara e Ibores, eran del primer grupo, concretamente vetones. Otros pueblos celtas asentados en Extremadura fueron los lusitanos, asentados en el oeste de la provincia de Cáceres, y los célticos, que ocupaban el sudoeste de Badajoz. Entre los íberos se encontraban los turdetanos, ocupando el oeste de la provincia pacense y los túrdulos, asentados en el sudeste. Los castros (poblados fortificados) de Aldeacentenera, Berzocana, Retamosa y Fresnedoso de Ibor son un buen ejemplo de las culturas indígenas de la península ibérica. Ubicados en algunos de los lugares más estratégicos del Geoparque Mundial de la UNESCO.
My grandparents were told about Asturia's celtic heritage as far back as the 1920s
Just finishing reading a good book on iron age Celtic culture and druidic surveying and the establishing of pre Roman road systems in Iberia, Gaul, and the British isles. Graham Robb is the author's name, 'The Discovery of Middle Earth' is the title. I recommend it.
Thanx for sharing
Rather interesting and yet, highly speculative.
Living in Portugal, I had the opportunity to visit several pre-roman population centers, the Castros.
The Lusitanios are considered extremely significant in our pre-roman History.
Unfortunately, relevant studies are not being systematically pursued. at this time.
I think I see now why languages like old Welsh and old Portuguese are so similar in certain aspects. They wore the same kind of Celts.
Kilts?
My great-grandfather from the mountains of Asturias (also a journalist) always had some affinity towards Welsh poets in his writings. Many of the Welsh and Northwest Spaniards look very similar.
@@asturiasceltic3183 that's very nice, thanks for sharing. the North Iberian always felt deep connections to Arthurian legends as well, it's in the subconscious, despite the Latin-Arab culture.
It's interesting that you mentioned the Bell Beakers being 40% indoeuropean. I am genetically from Northern Portugal, specially celtic places in Trás-Os-Montes and always thought i had 30% indoeuropean and mostly ANF because although i am 1.80m and pale, my eyes are brown, my hair light brown and wavy and i have an roman nose. However when i did ancestry test and later confirmed my results in various vahaduo calculators i was: 46.6% Indoeuropean, 40.8% Neolithic Farmer, 6.8% Epipaleolithic north africa (due to stone age migrations i assume, not moorish conquest, since there is no arab or proto african in the mixture) and 5.8% western hunter gatherer. Do i pass as a Celt? Or do i need to be blue/green eyed from the british isles?
Not so much that the bell beakers were 40% Steppe derived. They were actually often higher than that in percentage terms. What I meant was that around 40% of the gene pool in Bronze Age Iberia was represented by this incoming population. The steppe percentages thus would have been lower than that. However, the steppe percentage was increased further with the Urnfield Celtic migration.
Commercially available genetic testing should not be taken as entirely accurate. I don't know how they are categorizing "indo-European". However, all Iberian people are indo-European as you have Steppe ancestry and speak Indo-European languages. I wouldn't be too caught up in the specific admixtures.
I don't have blue or green eyes either, brother, so if that is the requirement, we both fall flat.
@@FortressofLugh Thank you brother, i shall identify as a Celt now.
Celts are not about a percentage of Yamnaya NA, it's about being descendants of the people who called themselves Celts.
@@FortressofLugh "Not so much that the bell beakers were 40% Steppe derived. They were actually often higher than that in percentage terms. What I meant was that around 40% of the gene pool in Bronze Age Iberia was represented by this incoming population. The steppe percentages thus would have been lower than that."
That is correct. 40% of the incoming genes, of a people with 70% Yamnaya DNA, resulted in the Iberians having 30% Yamnaya DNA.
"However, the steppe percentage was increased further with the Urnfield Celtic migration. "
Do you have a paper for that? I don't think there is evidence for that, and I would really like for it to exist, as it would explain today's genetic proximity between Iberians and Central Europeans over Mediterraneans.
Very good video, very well explained and with science and not bullshit.
Surprise no mention of VIRIATO
Nice! I disnt knew!
Great video from a Celto-Iberian hehe
This makes sense since Spain and Ireland are very friendly with each other even today
Yes, they treat us like family, especially North Spaniards.
@@asturiasceltic3183 we are cousins
@@laoch5658 Ahhhh❤
@@asturiasceltic3183 an Andaluzian or any Iberian today are closer despite the important connections to Britain/Ireland
@@isoldatraducoes Andulucian = Moros, not Celtic, suebies and Visigoths like in the Northwest. Now you are going to come up with some uncredited source.
25:17 Thank you for explaining that suiciding rather than being taken as a slave is a Celtic trait and they are known to be a very free spirited people. That is so true in my family including during the Spanish Civil War. My family is from the Picos of east Asturias near Cantabria...Thank you
you just need to go to a tras-os-montes village(north portugal) and bread a gulp of cold winter hair to know the celts presence
Great video! Just a small correction to the extension of the iberian celts. They also occupied what is nowadays known as Basque country, as is shown in the ancient toponomy (names of rivers and mountains) and some traditions like the sacred oak. The basques inhabited originally the adjacent land to the east, and spread out westwards to their actual location right after the fall of the Roman empire.
there is a certain genetic connexion between the modern Irish/Cornish/Welsh population and the north Iberian peninsula but with the Basques too, however is not proven that Basques and British Celts are related directly but thru a third party, above all language and cultural aspects are different.
@@BETOETE It is fascinating how the basque language was preserved. It's the only pre indoeuropean language in Europe (hungarian, finnish and turkish are non indoeuropean but not preindoeuropean since they arrived at a latter date). It has all to do with the Pyrenees and the borders between France and Spain. The physical and political divide allowed that language to survive in the high mountains. However, the Pyrenees have two open gateways at both extremes: in the east (towards Catalonia) is very broad, in the west is narrower but also accesible to the Basque country. So the ancient basques roamed mainly in the central Pyrenees. After the invasion of Suevi, Vandals and Alans, the present Basque country (which had been celtic) was weakened, and the basques spread out to that area mixing up with the remaining celt population. Later on, after the muslim invasion, the christian state of Navarra was created and that helped to the preservation of the basque language.
@@audiovideando1592 yeah, there's a connexion DNA between Irish Celts and Basques but it doesn't mean that they are related all way thru
@@audiovideando1592pourtant en France... Les "bretons" sont celtes, ca langue, ses chants, même c est dances
Nice one again. Keep up the good work.
Well I know what I'm having for breakfast tomorrow morning ❤🇿🇦😎✌️🌹
Two things came to mind because of my interest in Romance Languages. I've always been fascinated by the fact that I can read Portuguese because it looks like Spanish and I minored in Spanish but it sounds completely different. I'm thinking about children having a native mother who spoke a Celtic Language but their second language was "Roman." Somehow in Portugal the mother's spoken language held out against the father's writing and pronunciation but in Spain - the mother tongue and Roman pronunciation and alphabet took hold. That's number one, number two is about the TH sound. English has both and it's very unusual in world languages. Some people can't say either the voiced or voiceless. The Irish "substitute" D for the voiced version. Dis Dat Dese and Dose. The French make TH sound like Z, zis, zat, zese and zose. The Spanish have the unvoiced TH that didn't move to South America. Portuguese in Portugal and Brazil are also different. Loved learning about the connection between Iberia and Ireland.
Yes, Portuguese (esp. Brazilian) and French have preserved their celtic twang. Most galician dialects, have lost theirs, in the last century.
English on the other hand, also has its own celtic twang.
Thanks interesting wise info
Nice work, I appreciate the evidence-supported statements. Now, I am curious about the cultural influences between Saharan pastoral nomads and bell-beaker.
Kevin can you do a video on Germany at some point? It would be incredible to see you tackle it.
Fascinating. An advanced study of my DNA indicates 9% Iberian. Something I was unaware of. I don't know about the Celtic part. Most of my ancient DNA is Germanic or Nordic. Thanks so much for this
Yeah me too
I ran dna thru different sites
And always get about 8% spain as hit
Was surprised
@nnonotnow,
I have similar situation. The main player ancestry companies have me as Norwegian, British and Swedish mainly, I show up anywhere from roughly 9% to 12% Iberian with these other companies. Relatives that I personally know along with numerous pop ups with the main players, are mainly U.S. Brits some U.S. Scandinavians and then Norwegians, followed by England and some Scotland and then Sweden. Perhaps we should all collaborate and figure this out?
Sorry what do you mean by ancient? Germanic, (much less Nordic) migration was mainly during the early classical era. Do you mean proto-Germanic? If so that’s quite interesting!
I am Spanish from Valencia, on the Mediterranean coast, and I do not have any Irish ancestors but I am 10% Irish. (Apart from Iberian, Italian, Western Europe and Baltic or Fines). Obviously these coincidences come from an ancient substratum of peoples who arrived from Eastern Europe and the Caucasus and mixed with each other and with the native hunter-gatherers, in a period between the Neolithic and the Iron Age over years and generations.
I specifically have a large genetic closeness with samples taken from burials of an ancient pre Roman people who lived in the Catalan Pyrenees, called Ilergetaes and whose capital was Ilerda, current Lleida (Lerida in Spanish). It is worth noting the ending of his Getaes name, which presents great resemblance to that of other peoples of the East such as the Massagetae and the Daciogeta. But the most curious thing is that I also have great genetic proximity to burials in southeastern Moldova of individuals belonging to the Scythas who probably belonged to the same ethnic group.
Awesome video as always! One nitpick: you sometimes say CELTS and show footage of clearly Germanic peoples with the Suebian knot!
CELTS ✊️
Portugal and Spain.
your narrator sounds like Eeyore from the Disney Winnie the Pooh
7:40 this is probably related to the fact that Basque culture is matriarchal in nature and has been for most of our history until Franco. In fact, the later Kingdom of Navarre was one of the very few states in Europe to follow cognatic succession and essentially the only one where women were allowed to own land under the same terms as men.
It is well known amongst Basques that culturally the head of family in a traditional Baserri is the eldest woman, and this has often been depicted historically as Basque women being fairly inaccessible and temperamental.
Celtíberos es una mezcla de Iberos y Celtas.
Thanks
Thank you!
My friend Strabo wasn't Roman was greek. But your work still interesting.
i think you misconstrue the "celt" division of P & Q branches. P celts are the 'continental' tribes who dispersed from the steppe into europe's river systems, the remnant nations of which are britanny, cornwall, wales, england (most outside the east retain majority celt ancestry rather than germanic) & pictish east scotland. Q celts (gaels & celtiberians) are the tribes who dispersed from the steppe across the black sea into anatolia, the near east, egypt & then out of the eastern med - they are the royal lineages of the pontic-caspian and they migrated wholesale without frequent intermixing with locals as was more common for indoeuro expansion. Q celts are entirely removed from P genetically by several thousand years and united only in that they have this common material ancestral culture with their distant brythonic cousins (the languages are not similar at all) - and that britain & ireland have had a high degree of modern internal migration blending what were once very distinct tribes.
the book of invasions, which you dismiss, has been vindicated genetically. it identified that there was an earlier aryan population in ireland that was displaced by later bronze age invasions. the declaration of arbroath in 1320 sets this out - that the gaels were a steppe tribe who had migrated via the mediterranean - and genetics vindicates this. it was well preserved, barely mythologised oral history for the tribe.
ireland bears the markers of this today, highest concentration of R1B lineages, blue eyes, lactose tolerance. the irish are the least diluted of that final dispersal from the steppe in the centuries before the crimea was hellenised.
Only two countries have bagpipe, which and Way
I am Spanish from Valencia, on the Mediterranean coast, and I do not have any Irish ancestors but I am 10% Irish. (Apart from Iberian, Italian, Western Europe and Baltic or Fines). Obviously these coincidences come from an ancient substratum of peoples who arrived from Eastern Europe and the Caucasus and mixed with each other and with the native hunter-gatherers, in a period between the Neolithic and the Iron Age over years and generations.
I specifically have a large genetic closeness with samples taken from burials of an ancient pre Roman people who lived in the Catalan Pyrenees, called Ilergetaes and whose capital was Ilerda, current Lleida (Lerida in Spanish). It is worth noting the ending of his Getaes name, which presents great resemblance to that of other peoples of the East such as the Massagetae and the Daciogeta. But the most curious thing is that I also have great genetic proximity to burials in southeastern Moldova of individuals belonging to the Scythas who probably belonged to the same ethnic group.
This is fascinating. My dna is nearly half Irish and half Portuguese
Celtik are so close to albania ( ilirians ) people in heritage after they left the war of Troy
I'm a little less than half Salvadoran Amerindian, some East Slavic ancestry, and the rest Basque, Spanish, Portuguese, French and Welsh... aka Celtiberian. 😂 Thanks for this.
I hate the Roman empire so much 😤
Why?
@1Comecoco
I despise the Celts as pure idiots knowing no other occupation than razzias, pillages, destructions and massacres without letting back the minimal indice of a cultural appartenance. They plundered and DESTROYED the most important sanctuary in Europa : the sanctuary of Delos and this remains the sole and unique testimony of a cultural " feat" of the Galls or Celts in their whole history.
The Celts were totally forgotten until the firsth celtomaniacs emerged in England and France in the late XIX century, depicting a celestial genure singing pious celtic songs in the center of profound forests their melodiuous voices making the trees dance !
The first Celts came from Iberia by the Bell bakers go took over the Corded Ware culture.
The idea of an invasion from the Steppes is preposterous.
I recommend you to read Mario Alinei.
The first PIE were the Anatolians (Hittites)
With ZERO R1a or R1b.
👎
Nordicist?
Esos primeros protoceltas vinieron de una zona de Anatolia hasta IBERIA y lo hicieron por mar y otros lo hicieron por vía continental hacia el centro de Europa. Concretamente la zona europea donde estaban los LIDIOS Y LOS GALATAS. Su haplogrupo G2a. Pero en todos los sitios que llegaron los yamnayas fueron acompañados por grupos de pastores muy belicosos que dominaban el bronce, eran sintashtas y sus haplogrupos eran el G2a-l30 o G2a3, posteriormente G2ab2 (pastores del Cáucaso) y el bereber balcánico E- V27.
Esto produce una franja que va desde el norte al sur por la parte occidental de la península (OESTE) comprende ASTURIAS, CANTABRIA, NW de CASTILLA Y LEÓN, GALICIA y la zona con más incidencia es PORTUGAL Y EXTREMADURA 10%. En otras palabras, las migraciones no son homogéneas pero la relación que hay entre HITITAS, GALATAS, TROYA, ILIRIA, ETRURIA, IBERIA es clara.
@usmarine4636
If they have zero R1a nor R1b (indoeuropean haplotype) the Hittites can NOT be indoeuropeans.
Or is the abscence of those i- e haplotypes that define if You are indoeuropean or not ?
very interesting
Thanks!
Thank you!
@@FortressofLughbonsoir, vous parlez français, il y'a "les bretons" en France c est bien connu celtes, leurs langues, chant, dance..
Et moi ma famille qui vient de tras dos montes, et nous avons aussi des yeux bleus, verts, blond,et des cheveux roux. Et mon dernier fils... Là barbe rousse 😂, il es pas content. Bien le bonsoir de France
Sou português nascido no norte de Portugal na Região de Trás os Montes e Alto Douro e filho de Pai de Viana do Castelo da Região Entre Douro e Minho e de ascendência Galega de sobrenome "de Araújo". Como minha Mãe era de Bragança reforço a ideia que sou fruto do antigo Reino Suevo da Galaecia. Morfológicamente também não fugirei à regra pois tenho 1,80m de altura e olhos azuis (lado do Pai e Mãe, que por sinal também tinha a mesma cor de olhos). Porém tudo isto me parece muito confuso, pois o nome "de Araújo" é originário da Galiza, de um Castelo ao Sul da Galiza que um cavaleiro borgonhês que veio em socorro do Rei da Galiza na luta da reconquista contra os mouros, tal como o Conde D. Henrique Pai do nosso primeiro Rei D. Afonso Henriques e que ao que parece eram primos e aristocratas, recebeu como alvíssaras o referido Castelo, optando assim pelo nome "de Araújo", enquanto D. Henrique recebeu o Condado Portucalense. Será que ainda terei uma pequena gota de sangue do meu primeiro Rei? Agora a sério, tudo isto é muito lindo e romântico, mas passaram tantos povos por este cantinho que de todos eles teremos vestígios no ADN, sem esquecer dos Neandertais que também acabaram por escolher Portugal para aqui viverem os últimos anos de vida antes da sua extinção. Tenho 75 anos e é curioso que há 50 anos nos tempos de militar, conheci em Timor uma jovem antropóloga australiana de origem francesa aquém em tom de brincadeira eu e dois colegas lhe perguntámos qual seria a nossa origem. Referindo-se a mim disse de imediato que eu era originário do sul de França. Interessante não é? Quando em Portugal for possível um teste de ADN, gostaria de saber as tais percentagens hereditárias. Se der certo ainda restabelecerei em Portugal a primeira Dinastia Afonsina ou Borgonhesa...
As late as the 17c i Iberian celts deployed to Scotland to assist their cousins from the highlamds in battle for freedom against the Ingles. .
Oh that's beautiful
Interesting video. For accuracy's sake however (since the subject deals with cultural and ethnic identities), Strabo was a Greek historian, and not Roman!
Spain is R1b 80 and 50 per cent y adn .
I know that you said you like northern Spain, but man... "Exceedingly wretched"... what is this? Detroit?
By the way, our wretched mountains are what helped us defend northern Spain from the muslims... and what allowed us to reconquer, and possibly what allowed you to speak in english, who knows? That was a long time ago, who's to say what would have happened in an Europe with an arab Spain (we probably wouldn't have discovered America) and YES. We discovered it, because even if other cultures made it that far, America was out of history until we arrived.
I am quoting an ancient Roman description, as I say
I know. What the heck was that all about? Anthony Bourdain said that the Asturias mountains was the most beautiful place he has ever been to in his show Parts Unknown . Maybe the author was talking about how harsh the terrain could be in growing crops
@@asturiasceltic3183peoples perception of things changes based on need. the ancients considered beaches a wasteland
@@cal2127 We are talking about Anthony Bourdain. He said Asturias was the most beautiful place he ever visited in one of his last episodes of Parts Unknown. He was near the end of his life so I doubt much changed on his perspective. Why does it bother you that Anthony though that.
Africa was very far from Europe. First the sea covered until south of Sahara, that is why we found fossils of sea life in the south interior of Morroco. Then the sea went back and the sands covered all north continental Africa. Only a few thousands of years it was possible to live in Moroco. By that time all Iberia had populations living there for a long time, since Neanthertal.
So rare my Last name Bran is Celtic but I’m Latin America I guess when Spain came to America Continent some of them had that last name 😂
isn't a toponymic surname? Saúdos!
Yes irish have bell beaker dna to
is it the Blood test... the yearn in the Heart. The Kicks to others Heads. or the Prayers not to that make it!
I would like to know what the Iberians think about their Celtic past
They tend very much to fervently and emphatically highlight their Celtic heritage. They like to equal themselves with Northern Europe like Ireland, Scotland and to a greater extent the UK.
@@KrlKngMrtssn Omg
Pienso como Asturiano,que al visitar los alpes,vi los prados y las vacas...somos iguales,fuertes,individualistas en el día a día,la familia es un clan,y la aldea el país,pero si tocan al vecino todos a una,y que decir de nuestras mujeres bravas y fuertes,al frente de nuestro ejército portando armadura y arengando a la tropa,Doña Hurraca fiel descendiente de las guerreras celtas que lideraban algunas tribus,los vascos ufff,flojos como los francos, colaboradores de romanos,árabes,francos,que es lo que son,en el norte son celtas pero.....ya los conocemos,el lema de guerra me rindo
Nos sentimos hermanados,con Irlanda,escocia,gales,nunca a Bretaña,no nos queremos equiparar somos la esencia,auténticos,lee nuestra historia,no nos hace falta parecernos somos auténticos,e invictos
@@ManoloAlvarez-pz4lzLos moros os conquistaron.
My ancestors.
Celts are Albion 🦅🇦🇱🦅 👉 BRVTVS of Troy and his son Albani (Saint Alban),BRVTVS was grandson of Aeneas Dardanius,Brutus temple is in Albania 🇦🇱👉 Butrint (BRVTOTHRUM)
Arbëria 🦅🇦🇱🦅
kishin disa kelt ne illyricum me nje kohe
I love your videos! So good! Though my surname is English and according to my DNA I'm 32% I'm predominantly Scottish with Irish and Welsh. Over all my ancestry is 55% from historically Celtic lands. All my ancestry to America came from the British Isles. Even so I have 8% Norwegian and 5% Danish. 9th generation American.
My husband can trace his ancestry back 600 years, his family have only moved only 15 miles in that time. He is a blood Cornishman and therefore a Celt. His DNA is 10% Iberian.
Your ancestors double every generation. 'whole family' .. for 600 years? You're looking at millions of people..
It's likely just the way that the testing company defines certain clusters. Commercial analysis is not very accurate in terms of ancestral analysis, but there is some ancient connections that go both ways. There is about 7% Gaelic admixture in Asturias from Gaels who fled Ireland during English persecution. There was also a settlement of the British when they fled the Saxons
that's really cool. on my mom's side, we have family who have lived in the same small town in Portugal for around 700 years.
@@richardemily1555It’s not millions. It can be that the whole population of that area in the late middle ages are his ancestors several times over. I have ancestry from a small town in Asturias and they are all probably in essence the same people as 2000 years ago.
@@Ragisinterracial admixtures are overestimated since we're talking about periods when people were much more adverse to accepting vastly different, clearly foreign people.
If anyone's obsessed with Celto-Iberian and Celtic warfare in general I strongly recommend Schwerpunkt's videos series
He goes in haaaard omg 😩 his videos are so long though!
I definitely enjoy his work
Thanks, do you or anyone reading this have more of this type channels?
@@10hawellDan Davis History
@@10hawellSurvive the Jive
A Welsh linguist here on TH-cam (Ben Llwyelyn) who specializes in Celtic languages showed that the reason why Portuguese sounds so totally different from other romance languages is because of the pre-Roman Celtic languages spoken there. He said that Portuguese is Latin spoken by Celts; but Spanish although unrelated to Basque in origin, has the exact same phonemes as Basque so therefore Spanish is Latin spoken by Basques. The -sh sounds before consonants is common to both Irish (Gaelic) and Portuguese; and you find the nasal vowels and diphthongs so common in Portuguese in Breton as well.
Only portuguese or also galician? Cause they have the same roots
@@miguelnunezd6319certaines villes, jusqu au nord, mais pas toutes.. Je crois qu'il y a là carte sur Google, et l ancienne carte du comté de coimbra, portucalence
@@newweaponsdc celtic languages have never been spoken in Portugal so that is unlikely.
The Lusitanian language was in the same language family as Italic and totally imcompatible with celtic.
This is an interesting theory but a very over simplified view of a complex region of Europe. Spain wasn’t just basque people who then adopted Latin, neither do large parts of Spain have proof basque was spoken there at all historically. So the Celtic parts in Spain were really just Portuguese Iberia? I’d be interested to see how this stacks up with the genetic & historical evidence
@@Jadedx_ it doesnt stack up at all. Celtic languages were never spoken in Portugal. Lusitanian was not in even in the same language family as celtic.
I'm an American that moved to Spain to teach English, decided on Galicia on a whim and havent left since making the move 5 years ago. Have fallen completely in love with this region. it has a lot of ancient charm, Madrid and Barcelona feel worlds away, but the atlantic coasts and verdant mountains show their imposing immenseness.
But your surname is Arias. My mother have arias. It’s a very old and noble surname mostly Galician. They say it came from arius or Aria. The Arian people in Central Europe (celts). I was born in Barcelona but half pf my family is from Galicia and I have morriña about Galicia and the climate. I love rain.
@@angyliv8040 good observation, yes I'm an Arias. My parents immigrated from El Salvador and Mexico. I imagine at some point in the past, some of my ancestors may have originated from Northwest Spain. My mother's side is Mexican, curiously her family is from a part of Mexico that was once administered under "Nueva Galicia" during the time of New Spain. I took a DNA ancestry test and I am 50/50 Amerindian and Iberian, so mestizo. But it wasn't precise enough to pinpoint the location in Spain. I assume it's a mix of Extremadura, Andalucía, and Galicia possibly, since those were the regions with the highest percentages of emigration to the new world.
Many of the Knights of the Reconquest from Asturias have surnames starting with Santo or Santa because they got a title for their role in the Reconquest. They underwent name changes from names like Martinez and Gonzalez etc and became Santos(Santo___ or Santa__) and tend to sound more Latin or Roman than Visigoth like many "ez" ending surnames. That's why there is a saying, "to be Spaniard is a source of pride.. To be Asturian is to have a title." So if you are from North Spain and have a Santo name your ancestors were most likely Christian Knights. It can be the name of a place, but many of the knights got a piece of land.
@@hydnarsYour surname is swabian. Yes, the 1s who settled in Galice (esp. Ourense and Lugo) long ago. And many did establish themselves in O Salvador, Mex, Cuba and Costa Rica, of the 1s who went to North America.
Donde Vens Lembra.
@@asturiasceltic3183pouvez vous me donner la signification pour ce nom et d où il viens "SEMANAS"?
As a student of all things to do with the history of the Iberian peninsula, I thoroughly enjoyed your presentation.
Thanks for covering this, I am from Galicia and I literally live next to ancient Celtic and Roman settlements
However you are the people with the highest rate of Berber DNA in the Peninsula.
@@nb9419 Yes, from the neolithic, it's interesting. "Minifundismo xenético" is interesting too.
Yet, you have the highest ghest rate of Berber genes, you know well when they came...Oxford University dixit. As for the highest rate of common genes with Ireland, Asturies isbat thé top of the Peninsula.
@@crebafurros ,I know you don't like it, but it is so...If you still have hillforts it's because you surrendered to the Romans and they didn't destroy them as they did in Asturies. That's not in the books of Celts.
@@nb9419 I didn't argue anything, you're correct, and? I don't care about anything like that, is there any problem?
Great video. Loved this.... From an Australian with both Lusitanian & Gaelic ancestry this topic had great appeal & info avenues to further explore, many thanks.
This is great! I carry Iberian and Celtic DNA. Glad to hear more about my fellow Celts on the Iberian Peninsula!
I am Mexican & carry 28% Scandinavian
I recently spent 6 weeks in Galicia. While there, it was impossible not to see Celtic features in the people! I even told a few that if I were to take pictures of them, posted them on a website and just below their pictures I changed their names to Sean O'Reilly or Mallory Connelly, no one would ever know that they were not Irish.
My galician grandmom spoke gaelic.
🤣👌👌👌 I''m Spanish myself and my wife who is from northern Europe always gets surprised at some many people here looking that way, blonde, red haired, blue and green eyes...
@@joltjolt5060 Gaelic or Galician? I am studying Galician. Gaelic is from a different language family.
@@juanv5375 I believe it!
@joltjolt5060 no she didn't
Thank you for making a video about the Celts of Iberia. We are just as proud of our Celtic culture and heritage as any of our Brothers and Sisters
❤
You again trying to pass up as someone of our countries. You're not, you're American
Great to meet another Celt!!
@@harrietharlow9929 Likewise brother, it’s good to meet you
@@uptown_rider8078 💚💚💚
According to recent genetic studies it shows that celts of the UK and Ireland were from Spain so it was a truth to what was said.
A Happy Beltane to you! Thank you very much for the video.
Galicia is considered celtic by many and it still maintains a celtic music tradition.
Et l ancienne galaëcia était jusqu au nord du portugal, même langue, dommage 2 frères qui ce sont opposés... Mais ils seront toujours nos frères... Vive à galicia
@@teresasemanas5707 🥰
"celtic"... the ROman stratum is still prevalent.
@@nathanaelpereira5207 on parle de l ancienne "galaëcia" qui était jusqu àu nord... Parlez vous portugais, français.. Désolé, j écris mal en portugais.. Mais je le comprends et parle
@@nathanaelpereira5207 en France, il y y'a un peuple descendants de"bretons"ils on encore leurs langue, dance, chant etc
In my father's line I am a Celt of the Eburon tribe. Julius Caesar tried to kill them. My ancestors then fled to a swamp in Brabant. From my mother's line I may be Hallstatt, the later center of Celtic culture. The culture was not static, every region was connected, like nowadays Europe.
This Dobunni (amongst other Celtic tribes) greets you!!
Spanish culture flourished, but not in the way that Greco-Roman and later Franco-Normans could appreciate. It is hard to believe mere ‘hill people’ caused Carthage, Rome, Visigoths, Andalusia , and (frankly) Castilian rulers so much trouble to actually subdue beyond nominal allegiance.
They were not the kind of conquerer culture that gets overrepresented in the history record, rather they were the unconquerable.
aight, you guys ignore the ~Reconquista~ Chrisian Conquest and its reconfiguration of population xD
I have been studying this for several years, this is the best video I have ever seen documenting Celtic lineage in the Iberian population. Very very well done with this video and thank you!
Interesting Topic, Happy Beltane!
Quite a nice video.
I'm from nothern Spain, actual Navarra (basque and spanish, of course, speakers) but living at Avila Mountains, the land of the Vetones(Vetons) tribe.
People here is very concious and proud of their celtic heritage. Many traces can be found everywhere. Paints, engraved stones, figures, ceramic ...
Again, nice video.
Thank you and best wishes
Ah I'm in love with the title already! ❤😊 thank you for sharing this! I will tune in with an open ears and a clear mind.
I live in northern Portugal and recently made a 5 day road trip through Galicia and they really embrace their celtic origins there. There's references to it everywhere, in Corunha there's a big compass next to the tower of hercules referencing the celtic cultures of europe, including Galicia,, in Santiago you can always hear the hornpipe playing in the background, plenty of celtic ruins all well preserved and sinalized. The natural beauty of the region is also breathtaking, the roughed coast with white sand beaches, the lush green hills that go on for ever and then the cities and villages that you can just feel the history beneath them.
Also the fact that galician is basically portuguese with spanish accent makes it feel like we do share a lot of history and origin, especially northern Portugal.
Sodes a mesma gente.
Nortenhos são galegos também. Um povo xebrao em dois países.
21:43 Extremely interesting, just the other day I was watching a video of thr Celtiberians, but was missing the origin, of the Celts specifically. Many thanks! Also, it is assumed that the Astures in the region of Asturias who began Spanish Reconquista were pretty intact in their Celtic culture, Christian with some pagan rites, but pretty cohesive and not much alike the Visigoths and Romans.
I have both northern Spanish and Irish DNA. My grandparents came from Galicia in Spain a region with strong Celtic ties.
but still is Roman at most.
@nathanaelpereira5207, Roman was a citizenship not a DNA.
@@brawndothethirstmutilator9848 More than that, it was an integration, acculturation and wanting to be part of it.
@@nathanaelpereira5207Did you not watch the video? Have you not seen hapolo maps on Spain?
I am of Galician descent and spent 6 weeks there doing a genealogical study. While there, it was impossible not to see Celtic features in the people. I even told a few that if I were to take pictures of them, posted them on a website and just below their pictures I changed their names to Sean O'Reilly or Mallory Connelly, no one would ever know that they were not Irish.
@@nathanaelpereira5207 Nope, the Romans used that area as ports but was never conquered.
I'm Basque. My surname Inclan is a parish in Pravia in Asturias and my DNA is majority Basque Spanish.
We have a Basque community in Arizona. Some interesting history:
The State of Arizona takes its name from a ranch started by Bernardo de Urrea sometime between 1734 and 1736. The general area around his ranch was also known as Arizona. He and a majority of the first explorers, settlers, and miners in the area were Basque and it is they who probably gave the Basque name Arizona (the good oak) to the region.
I was 29 years old when I realized by surname "Vasconcelos" had to do with Basque Country.
You mean you're American
@@MW_Asura In some parts of the country, those are "fightin' words". Many have not bought into the concept of the "melting pot" where ancestral languages, cultures, and religion are destroyed and replaced with "American" culture.
@@random2829 Thank you! So tired of being subsumed into "the "melting pot".
The earliest surviving account of Irish origins is found in the Historia Brittonum ("History of the Britons") (And the Origins of the Arthurian Legends) written in Wales in the 828. It says that Ireland was settled by three groups of people from the Iberian Peninsula. The first are the people of Partholón, who all die of plague. The second are the people of Nemed, who eventually return to Iberia. The last group from Hispania (mīles Hispaniae), who sail to Ireland in thirty ships. All but one of their ships are sunk. its passengers are considered the ancestors of all the Irish.
It also says that after that even more waves came and inhabited Britain.
@@Leontemplar-yt6ff What about the Fir Bolgs? They were also part of the Invasion cycle of Ireland. Carmina Gadelica another good source.
I’m Portuguese blond with green eyes with origins in Northern Portugal, Celtic country!
Roux, blond dans ma famille avec des yeux bleu, verts et moi très noisettes en amande..
Celts were known to be darker and shorter with round, hooded eyes, pointy face.
You tell yourself that
@@anna3046 It's documented. The celts also bleached their hair in times of war to blend with other tribes or to scare off their enemies.
@@asturiasceltic3183todo errado... Eram o contrário... Os Celtas eram bastante, brancos, altos e fortes... tinham uma mistura entre loiro, ruivo e cabelos castanhos, por vezes ondelado a encaracolados como se vê em muitos escoceses ruivos... Também tinham, olhos verdes, azuis, castanhos...predominante nessas tribos celtas...
I like this video so people can finally understand we are celts in Asturias and Galicia.
galicians are not celtic , only the durienses porto gallos
@@danythrinbell1596 Everyone knows that Galicians are Celts. That's what they're known for and that's the very first group people will mention Even the Irish Times acknowledges this. I know there's been a lot of online envy towards them but you can't mess with facts.
@@asturiasceltic3183 what facts man , i'm a full blown kallaico , duriense , i'm not related to galegos in dna , we are the lusitanians the galegos adopted the name from the duriense kallaicos , there is no one tribe in iron age with the name kallaico en galicia spain
@@asturiasceltic3183 there is no celtic tribes in ireland in any times only residual , individuals that went there and stayed but did not make the Irish celtic even the Scots
@@danythrinbell1596 Read "
"Genetic studies show our closest relatives are found in Galicia and the Basque region" by the Irish times. They don't mention nothing about you. LOL. You are not even included in the maps of Celtic Nations. And lookup the TH-cam video "There are really 8 Celtic Nations." They make absolutely NO mention of you. Plus, why don't the Irish invite you to bagpipe nor call you their cousins. LOL
💪 I was naturaly listening irish music and culture. It is an impulse writen in genetic. We are still here.
About horns in helmets there were not. I recomend “Les Celtes” from Bompiani, sponsored by FIAT, a true enciclopédia about Kelts, in images.
Look up Celtiberian helmets. The picture does not show horns exactly but it is based on actual artifacts
@FortressofLugh I prefer wings myself 😆
I'm related with this. Greetings from Barcelos (Barca Celia)
In the center and north of Portugal you'll still see a lot of evidence they left behind. Fun fact, if you're Portuguese and you go to Galiza you'll notice that the language is really similar to Portuguese, maybe an evidence of our common ancestry. Also there is a local places in Portugal where some people speak a língua mirandesa (similar to my own name :D) which if you're Portuguese is really hard to understand, not sure if it's related to celts or not. Another fun fact, in Portugal you can see the statue of Viriato in Viseu and you can also see another statue in a museum in Zamora, Spain. Viriato is a lusitanian heroe that fought the romans.
Modern Galician and Portuguese has got nothing related to Proto-Celtic except some vocabulary substrate, like other Iberian languages.
Mirandese is and Astur-Leonese language, related to Asturian and Leonese, spoken in Northern Spain.
Viva Galicia❤
8:22 "Exceedingly wretched place to live in"... Wow... But I mean, in the US most people think Spaniards are brown, so... shows what you know, right?
As a Portuguese tracing back to the NE area of Minho, going back past the middle ages. I can tell you how proud I am to have 75% of Celtiberian DNA and 7% of modern Scottish, Irish, Welsh! The rest is basically Roman & Moorish both at at 9%. We also have some Jewish and Greek DNA in the family, but I didn't get any; my sister did. Our culture to this day honors our Celtic heritage, especially in the North, but we also honor our Roman and Moorish legacies, and will continue to do so.
The whole Eastern European Atlantic was a Celtic sea and trading routes
Que programa usou para descobrir o se dna
@@portucaleminho3191 Usei o
My Heritage.
@@portucaleminho3191 nosotros Celtico, no ?
@@Alfablue227
Sinto muito, mas nao é confiável e usa cluster com uma tendência muita relativa
The present day basque country was inhabited by three different celtic tribes upon the arrival of the romans to the area. Their partial annihilation brought in colonizers from already romanized people and subjected peoples like the ancestors of the basques who were living in and at the foothills of the Pyrenees.
Their loyalty was the reason they weren’t ended as a culture and were left alone to be bilingual in latin and in their dialects as well as spread into the current basque country and a pocket of La Rioja during the roman period.
It’s curious that the three main surviving ancient basque dialects/languages roughly correspond to the three territories of the previous celtic tribes.
Have you looked into the name Iberia? I've heard some Wacky Hebrew connections. Kinda like the Danes, Danube, and such all coming from the Expansion of the Tribe of Dan.
Brazil is a big heir of Atlantic and West Iberias, that preserve a lot of their pre-Roman culture. The most proud Warriors, women and men, were in the *West Iberia* and they still kept fighting against Rome Abuses and struggled keeping their independence and (possibly) their Atlantic identity, be it by Alliance with Suebi and then "Treaty" with Arabs. and Galiça/Galiza protagonism always was erased by Castilians.
- Ç is *Galician Z* or Suebi Zeta, and not Visigoth
- Reconquest is not accurate, rather Christian Conquest and Galiza invited the Arabs. The game was more complicated. that helps explain why Galiza was intact.
- Asturian Kingdom never existed as described, it was always a Galiza Kingdom, like described in Pope's, Carolingian, Nordic, Arab, byzantine, andalusí, germanic and anglo-saxon documents. Only "Spain" post-XIII claimed Asturias
- Gallaeciae Regnum was always sophisticated and prominent
- Spanish language is the tail, Galician and Portuguese are the head, not the contrary.
- Medieval Galician (/Portuguese) was the first and true language of culture. Castilian just absorbed it , adding Basque, Aragonese and ANdaluzi traits.
- Madrid always denies and ridicularises the (Proto)Celtic heritage... anyway the Pre-Roman heritage, that is present and deep in Galiza, Portugal and less degree, Brazil, despite our Latin-Arab culture
- There wasn't repopulation in the levels accounted & in terms of replacin' Muslim/Jewish people by Christian. Despite the Towards South Advances and DNA clustering of people in Iberia according to their language: Galicia-Portugal; Asturias- Leon-Extremadura-West Andaluzia; Cantabria-Madrid-Granada; Aragon; Catalonia-Valencia; Vasconia
- Portugal was always allies of Sefardi and (possibly Moor too) people, cause they are smart in recognize their value, they were the most advanced due to the Gold Islamic Age. But the Isabel's religious fanatism messed it up at all.
. Castile forged Gothicism according to their Unification under their agenda
and that's it Castile don't respect their brothers as equals. The Old (bloody) Roots will never die!
Força Luso
Viva Viriato🇵🇹 y Viva Numancia🇪🇦
Arriba España ✋🏻🇪🇸
I already knew this.
Gaelige may not have a language. We share history orally. There is a past we know and identify with. Thank you for your efforts Kevhan 😊
Same as the Maori in New Zealand
Who share the same Sothic Lunar Calendar as the Chaldeans, and the Irish