Celts are an Indo-European ethnolingustic group of Europe which originated in Austria in 800 BC. By 450 BC, the Celts, through trans-cultural diffusion or migration, had spread to the British Isles, France and the Low Countries (Gaul), Bohemia, Poland, Central Europe, the Iberian Peninsula, and northern Italy; starting in 279 BC, the Celts began to settle in Eastern Europe and the Galatia region of Anatolia. The expansion of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire into Celtic lands starting in the 3rd century BC pushed the Celts out of Italy, and the Romans conquered Gaul during the mid-1st century BC, Spain in the late 1st century BC, England and Wales in the mid-1st century AD, and other Celtic regions. In addition, the migration of the Germanic tribes forced the Celts to relocate, and their culture was restricted to Ireland, Wales, Scotland, Cornwall, the Isle of Man, and Brittany. Today, Irish, Scots Gaelic, Welsh, and Breton are still spoken in parts of their historical territories, and Cornish and Manx are undergooing a revival.
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