Ancient Celtic Placenames in Europe and Asia Minor, Number 39

ISBN: 978-1-4051-4570-1

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424 pages

July 2006, Wiley-Blackwell

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An original study revealing the history of place-names from Ireland to Anatolia, from Scotland to the Apennines, and from to Andalusia the Black Seas.

Includes numerous original maps and uncovers new methodology for linguistic geography
Uses a dataset of over 20,000 names recorded by Greek and Latin authors such as Polybius, Caesar and Tacitus and by early geographers such as Strabo, Pliny, Ptolemy and the Ravenna Cosmographer
A significant work for archaeologists, historians and philologists studying the early distribution of Celtic and other Indo-European languages