[LostTribe]

>The population of Rome itself dropped to about 10,000 after Rome fell.

Yes, I would think it very difficult to define the "operational" size of the Roman Empire at any given time since so much of it was conquered territory in which the inhabitants were never really "Romans".

Contrast that with the huge number of Celts, who as The Lost Tribes of Israel may not have know who they really were, at least retained some semblance of tribal identity even to this day. (As in birds of a feather flock together.)

[LostTribe]

Here is a link to another interesting article & thread about the Celts. The Goths as Celts.

[Cronos]

Contrast that with the huge number of Celts, who as The Lost Tribes of Israel may not have know who they really were, at least retained some semblance of tribal identity even to this day. (As in birds of a feather flock together.)

I hope I've proved to you by now that the CELTS ARE NOT THE LOST TRIBE. They are ARYANS, not SEMITES like Israelis. Most of them were slaughtered and now we are GERMANO-ROMAN physically.