400 BCE

by Kathleen NiBhriain

400 BCE sees the major migration of Celts over the Alps and into Italy. Prior to this, the major body of the Celts had been trading with Etruria from their villages in the Alps and along the Danube. The Celtic Tribes of Laii, Libici, Insubres, Ceomani, Anari, Boii, Lingones and Senones settled in the Po Valley in Northern Italy, either driving the indigenous peoples out or assimilating them, or, in some cases perhaps, co-exsisting with them.

Sources:

The Celts, People Who Came Out of the Darkness, Gerhard Herm, St. Martin's Press, (c)1977, ISBN 312-1205-7

The Ancient Celts, Barry Cunliffe, Oxford University Press, 1997, ISBN 0-19-815010-5

prepared by Kathleen NiBhriain

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