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- proper noun A
Celtic people ofHallstatt culture living in theIberian Peninsula , chiefly in what is now north central Spain, before and during theRoman Empire .
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Galician language is Portuguese, or a dialect of that language, which has less impress of the ancient Celt-Iberian and more of French than its sister, Castilian, both being descendants of Latin, enriched with words borrowed from the different nations which have at one time or another inhabited or conquered their country.
Spanish Life in Town and Country L. Higgin
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How much of the Celt-Iberian, or original inhabitant of the Peninsula, and how much of Gothic or of Teuton blood runs in the veins of the people of the mountains, it is more than difficult now to determine.
Spanish Life in Town and Country L. Higgin
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True, that direct testimony to this effect is scarce, and in the literature of antiquity we only have the passages of Diodorus and Julius Caesar relating to the inhabitants of the Lipari Islands, one of the Celt-Iberian tribes, and the Sueves.
Mutual Aid; a factor of evolution Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin 1881
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