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> The Celts did in fact inhabit most of Europe in pre-Roman times, or at least very big swathes of it. For example there are some stone-made Celtic-crosses that

by yorwba 6y ago

> The Celts did in fact inhabit most of Europe in pre-Roman times, or at least very big swathes of it. For example there are some stone-made Celtic-crosses that are popular in what is today North-Western Romania Celtic crosses are a Christian thing and Christianity only got started after the Romans had subjugated large parts of Europe, so any "Celtic" crosses in Romania are guaranteed to be unrelated to a possible pre-Roman presence of Celtic tribes. (And it's not like putting a cross in a circle is a terribly original idea, so they probably came up with it independently from the Celtic Christians in Ireland.)

paganel 6y ago
It’s in the Scottish-related article, lots of pre-Christian symbols and traditions got absorbed into Christianity, it was only normal, one couldn’t have imposed a “tabula rasa” in those times over an entire continent (even today is not that easy, even with all the communications and PR industries)
johnsmith4739 6y ago
(citation needed) here is an alternative: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celts_in_Transylvania https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celts_in_Transylvania