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- Subclass of
- Ancient Celts
- Part of
- Ancient Celts
- Native language
- Galatian
- Religion
- Celtic polytheism
- Country
- Galatia
- Location
- Anatolia
- Image
- Dying gaul.jpg
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- Galatian
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- Galatians
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- Category:Galatian people
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Encyclopedic overview
Dying Gaul, Roman copy of a Hellenistic sculpture of a dying Galatian warrior, wearing a torc. Capitoline Museums.
The Galatians (Ancient Greek: Γαλάται, romanized: Galátai; Latin: Galatae, Galati; Greek: Γαλάτες, romanized: Galátes, lit. 'Gauls') and Hellenogalatians (Ancient Greek: Ἑλληνογαλάται; Latin: Gallograeci) were a Celtic people dwelling in Galatia, a region of central Anatolia in modern-day Turkey surrounding Ankara during the Hellenistic period. They spoke the Galatian language, which was closely related to Gaulish, a contemporary Celtic language spoken in Gaul.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Galatians” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.