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From: "R. Stevens" <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] Gauls and Galacia in Turkey (was mtDNA H2a phylogeny)
Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2007 18:14:11 -0500
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From: "Steven Bird" <>
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Sent: Friday, August 03, 2007 7:08 AM
Subject: Re: [DNA] Gauls and Galacia in Turkey (was mtDNA H2a phylogeny)

> Just to clarify, the Celtic (Gallic) people who founded Galacia in Turkey
> came from east central Europe, not "French" Gaul. They were part of a
> massive invasion of the Balkans by the Celts in 279 B.C. Most of the
> invasion force was eventually repulsed, but a portion broke off and moved
> eastward across the Bosporus to enter Anatolia (Turkey). They ended up in
> the region now called Galacia. They had nothing to do with the Gauls
> found
> in what is now France.
>
> Steve
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I believe those tribes that later became the Galatians did in fact originate
in Gaul and included Prausans and Tectosages. They left Gaul and moved first
to Pannonia.

St. Jerome visited the Galatians in the late 4th or early 5th century A.D.
and reported that they still spoke a Celtic dialect like that spoken by the
Treveri in the vicinty of Trier (now in Germany but once in the Roman
province of Gallia Belgica).

Rich

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