[denydenydeny]

It's funny when someone writes up a "news" article "revealing" something that is widely known.

The Celts lived all over Europe prior to historical times, and anyone with access to a map--and the ability to read the names "Galatea" in Turkey, "Galicia" in Poland, and "Galicia" in Spain--could have "broken" this story.

[waxhaw]

I agree... without being flippant I thought everyone knew this. From what I have read even the young Gauis Julius Caesar used Galatian militia troops in Turkey to oppose the incursion of an eastern potentate. Even at this time these "Galatians" were still in communication with their kin in European Gaul. Of more interest, it was Galatians converted to Christianity who went to Gaul as missionaries... 300 years after their ancestors had left Gaul for Turkey.

[LostTribe]

>The Celts lived all over Europe prior to historical times,

Yep. Click on my Profile for the whole story.

[Verginius Rufus]

Galatia in Turkey was the land of the Galatoi (Celts), although the area included non-Celtic-speakers...like the people addressed in St. Paul's letter to the Galatians (which was written in Greek).

Galatea (Galateia) is an unrelated name from Greek mythology, found already in Homer and Hesiod.

I don't know if Galicia in Poland (also spelled Galitzia, Galizien, Galicja) is connected to the ancient Galli or not.

[Prost1]

Obviously, you did not go to a school of "higher learning" recently.

It is news to them.