Celts In Italy

 

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Celts arrived in Italy in the period going from VI and IV century b.C.. A first mixture between

Celts and Etruscan people is witnessed by excavations of burials which let us think

that mixed marriages between the two people were frequent. These finds testimony a contiguity

by the very first time and, maybe, not always hostile relationships. It's difficult to define the

characteristic of first invasions: the only certainty is that Italian Celts kept relationships

with the transalpine ones and that the next invasion (IV century) was prepared and done

with their helf. the reasons why Celts occupied Italy are not clear: maybe they were attracted by ferility

and the mild climate of south, or they were compelled to move because of demographic pressure

combined with lack of cultivable lands and other political and social problems.

By the beginning of IV century b.C., the Celts, or Gauls (this is the latin definition),

settled in Lombardia, up to the borders with Veneto, in Emilia (Anari and Boi),

in Romagna (Lingoni) and in Marche.The capture of Rome (390-386 b.C.) was felt,

as old sources say, a traumatic event, maybr because the proud Romans wanted to justify

that defeat with the crueltyof the invadors. Now we consider the Celtic invasion not as

barbarian horde, but as the necessity of a big comunity compelled to leave their lands to survive.

it's likely yhat invasion prosecuted to South East without a too strong traume.