Ancient Civilizations: Europe

From Cassell's Peoples, Nations and Cultures
One of the three main groups of Iron Age Gaul. The Belgae put up fierce resistance to Caesar's legions before their final pacification in 51 BC.

From Cassell's Peoples, Nations and Cultures
The inhabitants of Great Britain during the Iron Age and Roman periods, mainly the descendants of the original post-glacial settlers of Britain.

From Cassell's Peoples, Nations and Cultures
A group of peoples of Iron Age Europe.

From Cassell's Peoples, Nations and Cultures
An ancient people of the Carpathian Mountains and Transylvania, in what is now north-central and western Romania.

Priests of ancient Celtic Britain, Ireland, and Gaul and probably of all ancient Celtic peoples, known to have existed at least since the 3d cent. BC. MORE

From Cassell's Peoples, Nations and Cultures
One of the major groups of ancient Celts. They were progressively conquered by the Romans between 295 and 51 BC.

From The Columbia Encyclopedia
Ancient inhabitants of central and N Scotland, of uncertain origin.

Ancient Germanic tribe. Along with other Germanic peoples, settled in the valley of the Oder about the 5th cent. B.C. MORE

Campaigns in Gaul led by Julius Caesar in his two terms as proconsul of Cisalpine Gaul, Transalpine Gaul, and Illyricum (58 B.C.–51 B.C.). MORE

From Brewer's Britain and Ireland
An ancient and poetic name for Britain and (latterly) for England.

Europe's largest stone circle (diameter 412 m/1,350 ft), in Wiltshire, England. MORE

The Roman town of Aquae Sulis (‘waters of Sul’ - the British goddess of wisdom) was established in the first 20 years after the Roman invasion of AD 43. MORE

Ancient designation for the land S and W of the Rhine, W of the Alps, and N of the Pyrenees. MORE

From A Guide to the Ancient World, H.W. Wilson
The home of innumerable tribes, was brought forcibly to the notice of the Romans by the invasions of the Teutones and Cimbri.

From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia
Period in British history from the two expeditions by Julius Caesar in 55 and 54 BC to the early 5th century AD. Roman relations with Britain began with Caesar's expeditions, but the actual conquest was not begun until AD 43.

Megalithic monument on Salisbury Plain, 3 km/1.9 mi west of Amesbury in Wiltshire, England.

Burial mound, usually composed of earth but sometimes of stones. MORE

Prehistoric stone monument of the late Neolithic (New Stone Age) or early Bronze Age. MORE

Any of 17 hill figures in England, found particularly in the southern chalk downlands. MORE