Ancient peoples of Europe

The Greeks or Hellenes (; , ) are an ethnic group and nation native to Greece, Cyprus, southern Albania, Turkey, southern parts of Italy, parts of Egypt, and to a lesser extent, other countries surrounding the Eastern Mediterranean and Black Sea. They also form a significant diaspora (), with many Greek communities established around the world.

thumb|upright=1.3|right|Illyrian tribes in the 1st–2nd centuries AD The Illyrians (, ; ) were a group of Indo-European-speaking people who inhabited the western Balkan Peninsula in ancient times. They constituted one of the three main Paleo-Balkan populations, along with the Thracians and Greeks.

The Gaels are a group of Insular Celtic ethnic groups native to Ireland, parts of Scotland, and the Isle of Man, and historically, Iceland and the Faroe Islands. They are associated with the Gaelic languages: a branch of the Celtic languages comprising Irish, Manx, and Scottish Gaelic.

historical national or ethnic group

thumb|332x332px|Ethnic map of the Caucasus in the 5th and 4th centuries BC. The Caspians (, Kaspyn; , Káspioi; Aramaic: ܟܣܦܝ, kspy; , Kaspk’; , Caspiani) were a people of antiquity who dwelt along the southwestern shores of the Caspian Sea, in the region known as Caspiane. Caspian is the English version of the Greek ethnonym Kaspioi, mentioned twice by Herodotus among the Achaemenid satrapies of Darius the Great and applied by Strabo. The name is not attested in Old Iranian. According to Vasily Struve, the 'Caspians' was the name given to those Saka-Massagetae tribes that were located along th

indigenous peoples of Europe

thumb|right|300px|Map of the Roman Empire and surrounding peoples in AD 125. The map shows two possible locations of the Fenni, based on possible readings of [[Tacitus (Livonia) and Ptolemy (upper Vistula river). Another location given by Ptolemy, in northern Scandinavia, is not shown as the map does not cover that region]] The Fenni were an ancient people of northeastern Europe, first described by Cornelius Tacitus in Germania in AD 98.

3rd century people in the northern Sea of ​​Azov and Black Sea area

thumb|right|Thomas Hodgkin (historian)|Thomas Hodgkin's map of barbarian peoples during the time of Augustulus, from his Italy and Her Invaders. The location of the Turcilingi is only a guess. The Turcilingi (also spelled Torcilingi or Thorcilingi) were an obscure barbarian people, or possibly a clan or dynasty, who appear in a small number of records relating to non-Roman soldiers serving within the empire under Odoacer in the 5th century AD. The 6th-century writer Jordanes indicated that Odoacer himself was considered a Turcilingian, although his descriptions of Odoacer's ethnic background a

ancient tribe in Europe

Sporoi () or Spori was according to Eastern Roman scholar Procopius (500–560) the old name of the Antes and Sclaveni, two Early Slavic branches. Procopius stated that the Sclaveni and Antes spoke the same language, but he did not trace their common origin back to the Veneti (as per Jordanes) but to a people he called "Sporoi". He derived the name from Greek ("to sow"), because "they populated the land with scattered settlements".