Oh, dear God.
The Galicians were in GAUL which is now France.
The Iberians were in, naturally, Iberia, which is now Spain.
Now, go look at a -map- and tell me the flaws in your “migratory logic”.
They technically speak a modernized “P.I.E.” which is proto-Indo-European language.
To all anthropologists, the -language- *is* the biggest unifying factor in what we now call “Celts”, religion coming in a close second.
That’s it.
I’m not pitting 30 years of studying this stuff against somebody Googling fragments and [incorrectly] cobbling them together.
[”Eastern Celtic language”?!? WTH?]
*sheesh*
Mind the Ps and Qs, for the LAST time.
That was Julius Caesar's Day and he was only talking about "the Gaul" that stretched from Gascony, North of the Greek colonies along the Rhone, and up to the Fenns of the Low Country, and East to the Rhine. Way back when the Carthaginians were beating up on the Romans, Magolis (McWallace) was running darned near all of Iberia ~ and he was allied to Carthage. He was certainly a Galician, and not what is called an Celt-Iberian.
THE primary group of Celtic languages that lasted from the most ancient times we have recorded, which is 2700 years before the present time, ALL derive from the exact same group of Celtic languages known along the Danube all the way back to the Kingdom of David.
They had a dust up according to the Greeks and they relocated ~ a common thing in ancient times (as it is now).
They did not chop their way West through the primitive wilderness of late bronze age / early iron age Europe. They sailed into the Mediterranean and engaged in commerce. Then they chopped their way around the Pillars of Hercules on up past the Light House at Brigantia and then took over existing primitive societies.
After some length of time (a few generations), they'd built their strenth and the Sons of Ir, who worshipped the Great Goddess Scota landed in the place we call ireland and conquered it. Then others of their group landed in Britain and conquered it.
Hundreds of years later the Romans arrived in Britain ~ 30 AD. Let's hop back to 700 BC ~ Galicia existed (according to modern Galicians) and even sported one of the oldest, if not THE oldest lighthouses on the planet.
Today they enter the international bagpipe contests with the Bagoud ~ check 'em out on the Net.
There are some other names that've been given to the North Coast of the iberian peninsula.
When King San Cho Noe set about organizing the Christian kingdoms in the North to begin the big push against the Moslems in the 700/800 period, he named them Castile, Leon and Carvajal. That latter place, Carvajal, was pretty much what had been known as Galicia for a very long time before ~ running off into that period before the memory of man could recall.
You can think Galicia was Gaul, or that it was in Gaul, but it was on the Bay of Biscay, just west of the Basque Country in Iberia, this side of the Pyrenees.