The Forgotten History of Celtic Poland

The ancient history of Poland is more connected with Goths and other local tribes than with the Celts. However, during many excavations archaeologists have discovered links between the modern territory of Poland and old Celtic tribes.
For example, archaeological excavations show that the Celts arrived and created a settlement in Poland. They probably came via the area of Morawy in the Czech Republic circa 400 BC. The first group arrived to Lower Silesia, south from the city Wroclaw. Another group of Celts created settlements in the area near Cracow (Kraków), and all the area of Lesser Poland Voivodeship.
By studying the discovered sites, Polish researchers started to realize that the culture of the territory of Poland in the late Iron Age was highly influenced by the Celtic culture. Poland has never been a part of the Roman Empire, so the influence of mixed aspects of different pre-Roman tribes, including the Goths, Scythians, etc., created the earliest history of the country in Central Europe.
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[@studyofantiquityandthemidd4449]

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[@przemyslawpodbielski1620]

Thanks for few videos about slavic history. Would u do some research about Norman's vel varegs Red hair people.

[@mariuszdabrowski9557]

Hello. I'm from Poland (but now I live in Cyprus) when I was young, Celtic artifacts were found in my grandmother's garden near Krakow. The found clothing decorations were taken to archaeologists, we thought they were things from the Middle Ages. They turned out to be Celtic, 900 years older. When I was older, about 25, I became friends with an Irishman, we went on a trip around Poland to see Celtic monuments. I recommend it, it's an interesting trip. There are monumental mounds near Krakow in Polish legends attributed to mythical kings, only these mounds are consistent with the Celtic calendar and not the Slavic one. There is an ongoing discussion in Poland about what culture it belongs to.

[@GrzegorzBraunYTOfficial]

Kopiec Kraka, Kopiec Wandy. Legendarni władcy Polski

[@kimberlyperrotis8962]

Whatever their origins, the Polish are remarkably good-looking people, I’ve noticed.

[@deanfirnatine7814]

Yes

[@mobilnylektor1694]

You are the best :-)

[@NoNoseProduction]

Same with your mom

[@bigfairy321]

@@NoNoseProduction Lubie twoja mame

[@magssmith9111]

Thanks

[@deanfirnatine7814]

One of my Celtic Studies professors suggested Celts had a strong presence in Poland and the Baltics almost twenty years ago, he was right

[@studyofantiquityandthemidd4449]

I really want to have on experts in the field of Celtic studies!

[@g-rexsaurus794]

"Baltics" when were Celts on the Baltic?

[@ArtisanWindchimes]

@@g-rexsaurus794 maybe Balkans?

[@kamilszadkowski8864]

I'm pretty 20 years ago it was already common knowledge among Polish scholars.

[@executor5588]

@@studyofantiquityandthemidd4449 I think Tomasz Bochnak is the expert on the topic of Celtic presence in Poland

[@pawelgrzesznik9210]

Fun fact: most Poles alive today have genetic ties to the land of Poland since Bronze Age, meaning that we are not purely of Slavic stock as some may suggest, but descendants of the ancient Celts and Goths, mixed with Slavic settlers..

[@feudaljester7581]

Their dna shows little r1b while genetic continuity at the same time which means slavic settlements were already in poland-germany in the BC times.

[@damionkeeling3103]

@@feudaljester7581 How much evidence of earlier people in Poland has been lost thanks to the 'Germans' being expelled at the end of WWII. They were then replaced by people from what's now western Ukraine so Poland would have far more R1a than it used to. The original Prussian population and others who were Germanised are gone along with the Germans themselves.

[@nieczerwony]

​@@damionkeeling3103This is fake statement as migration, wars and slave trades were taking place in whole Europe before even WWII.

[@GrzegorzBraunYTOfficial]

@@feudaljester7581 Well there's a reason why there were Pomeranian Slavs and Polabian Slavs/Wenden in Eastern Germany

[@GrzegorzBraunYTOfficial]

@@damionkeeling3103 Today a huge amount of us still carry genetic ties to the Bronze age. The genetic continuity is still strong since if i remember correctly it was discovered quite recently *in the last 30 years or so*

[@DaLoganFrost]

You're going to have to UPDATE your video. Now knowing that the LARGEST ROMAN pottery excavation has been discovered March 2021 in Central POLAND. History is always changing. Thanks for the video. Great work.

[@bolinfan1519]

The best clay around.

[@nataliaprzeszowska]

As a Pole I can’t appreciate this enough! Thank you!!

[@maciejsyrokomla-syrokomski838]

There is a relatively believable legend running in my family of the first Syrokomla (Sire O'Comel or Sire O'Connel - note the old form of "sir" - as he inherited the Irish title after his elder brother had died in his country of origin) who came to Poland in the 13th century from Ireland and got Polish nobility from the Polish king and one of the oldest coat-of-arms (Habdank) for his exploits in the wars with Moscow. The earliest confirmed record of our name comes from 1343 of a Cracow judge.

[@knuckles1206]

Very cool yes indeed..Poland those days was very welcoming to settlers from Ireland and Scotland too..they work closly with the polish king . O did my dna recently i was born in Poland and I have 13'3 Irish Scottish and welsh in me how cool..currently living in canada

[@MrsAi84]

My mother’s family was considered “hrabja” , my aunt has a ring and some paperwork? I know my mother’s great grandfather lived in a “zamek” which is now a museum. Pretty cool. This year we’re going to dig into my moms daily and figure out as much as we can

[@mediumchannel4540]

@@MrsAi84 which 'zamek' ?

[@Pigraider268]

Abdank in Polish :) "hrabia"

[@AnthonyEvelyn]

The eastern Celts are a very interesting group to study about.

[@alankochan]

What books or sources would you recommend checking out?

[@Siska0Robert]

Greeting from Moravia! The displacement of Celts by Slavs is definitely one of the most interesting topics of history for me. Wish there were more videos like this!

[@guidopahlberg9413]

I would expect the origin of the slavs to me more to the east. When they moved west, they did not displace the Celts but absorbed their culture before they started to expand.

[@SMiki55]

@Zosia Aniela Balto-Slavic languages was originally spoken in areas of modern day Lithuania and Belarus, with the Slavic branch being born in the swamps of Prypeć. People that used to live in our Polish land before spoke different languages, perhaps similar to Basque.

[@noraswe]

@@SMiki55 Todays Polish people have the same DNA as people living in Poland in the bronze age , so no probably not. ( if we don't go back before the indio european invasion.

[@SMiki55]

@@noraswe these people were our ancestors, but they didn't speak Balto-Slavic yet.

[@borzmir9326]

@@SMiki55 u dont know it

[@Sk0lzky]

It's so forgotten it's basically the main topic of archeological/historical museums in the country :v I didn't know it was rarely mentioned anywhere else

[@deanfirnatine7814]

Celtic presence beyond the typical talked about areas is very rare in the West, almost like the Germanic dominated West wants to forget it

[@g-rexsaurus794]

@@deanfirnatine7814 "Germanic dominated West" god you seem to have some weird perspective.

[@ceowulf7328]

@@deanfirnatine7814 More like the liberal academics want to forget about it!

[@knuckles1206]

Excatly

[@SMiki55]

Turboslavs would riot if they realized that their ancestors spoke Celtic :v

[@bolinfan1519]

The historian Kamil Baczewski is the author of three books about "the true roots of the Western Slavs," and says they were the Vandals. I wish the books were available in English. He has an excellent website.

[@juleksz.5785]

5:20 To add to the material : Kalsiz is one of 3 town in Poland claiming to be the oldest in here. In official history textbooks (aka those used in primary schools) it's also pointed as the oldest, thou there is often pointed at least one town, which althou older, is part of the ground under the lakes water since early middleages.

[@knuckles1206]

Oh well ..I was born in Poland living in Canada and recently did my dna test ..im 50,8 persent eastern european, 21 percent balkan, 14,4 Baltic and 13,3 Irish,scootish, and Welsh pretty cool

[@IhaveBigFeet]

Something like 10% of Krakow are descendants of Scottish merchants who settled there. 30 000 Scotts lived in Krakow in the 1600s

[@mj-uc6wc]

May I ask who you did it with? I am a Poll in Australia. I have always felt that the part of me that is so anti Christianity/monotheism has to go back to some pagan roots. I have tendency to nature oriented spirituality and have been researching a lot about the Polish antiquity in that context. I have been wondering if the DNA tests go that specific.

[@isabelkoslowsky8214]

@@mj-uc6wc oh I can relate with you! I will be going with 23andme :) hope this helps! Where in Aus are you located?

[@mj-uc6wc]

@@isabelkoslowsky8214 Hey, hey, I have lived in VIC, NSW and now I am in NQLD :-) I guess having Indigenous friends made me contemplate how Indigenous Poland would look like, I suspect it'd be better than what it is currently! I am really not big on monotheistic religions ;-p

[@isabelkoslowsky8214]

@@mj-uc6wc thank you for sharing! I see where you are coming from. I live in VIC (for 12 years now) , was born in Poland but grew up in Germany. I always felt very connected to the cold and to nature in general so I felt pulled to research my roots. I also felt very inspired by the indigenous people's connection to this ancient land. I hope you'll find some answers! I just got my kit :) enjoy the discovery!

[@nieczerwony]

That is not surprise for me. Consider that Poland is literally in center of Europe. So any people who used to travel from south to north (or vice versa) and sfom east to west (and opposite) will meet here. Especially that it's mainly flat lands, forests and lakes with good climate and access to the sea. In fact Tacitus when describing Germans (which he never met personally) said their tribes are of different look, culture and languages. These were literally Nordic, Celtic and Slavic people mixed together. It is funny when people mention Y haplogroup (i.e. one from father side). Yes Poland has quite a lot of R1a1 but so do Eastern Germany. What is not mentioned very often is mitochondrial DNA (female one), and in here mist of Poland come from so called Helena DNA line. Biggest frequency for this group is in Spain and Portugal and 43% of Poles has this DNA. Second most often group possessed by Poles is Ursula line. This is the oldest group discovered in Europe and first traces come from todays Greece. Third most often group is Jasmine (Jasmina) which of consist of about 10%. First traces of this haplogrouop in Europe are about 8 thousands years ago and it came from middle east and Balkans. Considering these we can see that Celtic heritage among Poles may be quite big.

[@tomek1867]

Guys, you made a great video. Greeting from Poland. 😍😍

[@studyofantiquityandthemidd4449]

Thank you so much for joining us Tomek! Greetings from the USA!

[@davnav5456]

West Slavs mix with Vikings,Celts and Germanic tribe.,,old Vikings Goods is the same like Slavic... Perun is like Thor....etc. Why Vikings make more trade with Slavs not war? Polish kings have Viking mercenary in army 1000 years ago...Vikings build towns in north Russia and make trade with west Slavs. Isle "Wolin" this is big trade market in old times..

[@maciejsyrokomla-syrokomski838]

You also forgot to mention that the southern part of Poland bears the name of "Galicja" from "Gallic".

[@g-rexsaurus794]

No it's a coincidence, when you examine the original of that Galicia is not from "Gallia"

[@dpwXXIPolskaPolak]

is from Ukrainian cithy of Halicz in south-western Ukraine but maybe the origin of Halicz are from probably Harizians Garizians an celtisesd galisesd tribe off Jazygians Iliro =Scythians called also generaly Venedians related to Tracians and Dacians thath was gallissd celtisesd

[@dpwXXIPolskaPolak]

and where living in southern central Poland,Slovakia, i ,southern Ruthenia and western Ukraine

[@gordbolton27]

Galicia = Gaulicia Wallachia = Gaulachia Gaelic language & customs are most like East Iranian as currently found in Tajikistan & Uzbekistan. The Swedes still call the Czechs Tajekers. Slavic & Gaelic languages are both derived from Sanskrit with Gaelic having more sound changes. All of these folks mixed & matched on the Steppes prior to moving into Central, Southern & Western Europe in the not too distant past. In more recent times Gauls from Wallachia came to Galicia as refugees from Hungarians & Turks. They created their own little enclave that is very different genetically from their Polish, Ukrainian, Uralic & Turkish neighbors. Many of the remnants of former inhabitants were eliminated during WW2. Just as an aside the letter G turns into the letter H when you cross the Dnieper from East to West. That is why they call Gaulicia Halicz.

[@skyjack1ifly]

Ha ha ha!!!!!

[@juanparacchini4772]

The word celt is a greek word used to describe indigenous peoples of central and western europe. Herodutus in 450 BC said europe north of the danube was uninhabitted and unknown. Now archaeology found celtic cultural artifacts in poland. Fine. But this does not necessarily mean the celts of ireland, celts of spain, and celts as far away as poland are the same people. Its possible that celts from the south, as in austria or switzerland had economic contacts with peoples of the north in baltic areas. It was actually only by around 100 BC, where greco roman authors began to actually notice a difference between celts and germans. Previously, all where celts. The archaeology only tells us that a celtic culture extended to as far north and east as in poland....

[@g-rexsaurus794]

Given that we have actual proof that Celts as far as Anatolia and those in Iberia and those in Britain spoke Celtic, there is literally no reason to believe those in the Carpathians and those pockets didn't have Celtic speaking element in them. Whether they were the "same people" is completely arbitrary and a stupid question frankly, Celts were a linguistic group that clearly shared relative recent ancestry and thus soem of the trappings associated with it.

[@g-rexsaurus794]

@Zosia Aniela Stop talking about "expert historians" when you know 0 about the topic, Celtic is a linguistic group that spread with people, not a "cultural revolution", we see people with Celtic ancestry in Halstatt Bohemia and we see that Celtic speakers came as far as Anatolia. They were not Irish genetically or culturally but that's because people conflate pre-Roman continental Celts with post-Roman insular Celts, not because Celts are not a thing. >A "Celtic" presence in Poland does not mean much from a genetic linguistic standpoint for Poles. That's because of the layers of discontinuity, not because there were no people with Celtic ancestry or speaking Celtic in iron age Poland, ever. >integrating with other tribes They probably did but they also were not irrelevant demographically or linguistically if they were able to preserve their language for centuries even in Anatolia. >and even with earlier Scythian ancestors than it would ever be connected to Celts of British Isles. Lol no, red hair in Scythians is a meme and Poles have little to none Scythian ancestry, that's another early modern meme. >No, I don't believe they are the same tribes as they were in British Isles to Gauls, Halstatts, Belgae etc. They all clearly share some amount of common descent from somewhere, languages don't spread themselves without people moving.

[@marciecorda5209]

SAINT PATRIC was converting PAGANS in IRLAND. We need Him today as well. JESUS CHRIST is a WAY, LIFE and TRUTH, not PAGAN WAYS and times.

[@juanparacchini4772]

@@marciecorda5209 St. Patrick was a catholic politician whose mission was to convert souls in celtic Ireland. He probably had lots of help by church politicians in the brainwashing process.

[@marciecorda5209]

@@juanparacchini4772 Back than catholic hierarchy was much more HOLY and honest than now. No, Saint Patrick was not a politician. Sorry to dissapoint You. And yes, CELTS were PAGANS who didn't know real loving God unfortunately.

[@virgiljjacas1229]

Thank you for sharing it. European history was overwhelmed and quasi destroyed by the Roman Empire first, and the Holy Roman Empire later.

[@studyofantiquityandthemidd4449]

Ahem..... I may have some episodes coming on "barbarian" central Europe that you will love!

[@bozo5632]

And the Mongols, and the Nazis...

[@Pigraider268]

@@bozo5632 And Russians

[@bozo5632]

@@Pigraider268 Bullshit. Absolute bullshit. If anything Russia saved Europe in the '40s.

[@Pigraider268]

@@bozo5632 Haha what? We suffered the most from them. Your comment is an insult for all people who died in eastern and central during Partitions, Insurrections and during Soviet regimes

[@dracodistortion9447]

"So where do you live?" Ancient Celts: Europe "Cool! where in Europe?" Ancient Celts: Yes

[@caitryan8262]

Great to learn about cultures who were not pillaged and massacred by the Romans. Thank you for a very interesting and informative video.

[@kimberlyperrotis8962]

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[@deanfirnatine7814]

But his hair style is wicked awesome ;)

[@codeN_8]

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[@Barbossa778]

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[@blossomjoseph5541]

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[@codeN_8]

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[@thomasmcculey7942]

It is quite possible that the name Poland is Celtic from the people who called themselves the Boii. The Boii left their name in the region of Czech republic known as Bohemia and in southern Germany as Bavaria. In Irish the word for cow is Bo. The Bospherous can be translated as the sea where cattle where brought from Anatolia to Europe.

[@Dziki_z_Lasu]

The exact name of the Celtic tribe living in Poland was Lugii - god Lugh worshipers. Alternative name of Poland still used in many countries is Lechia - Lehistan, Lengyelorszag. It is the same word accordingly to the Polish language evolution. BTW. So called Germanic period is associated with the tribe of Vandals and they hated Goths accordingly to what we know about them. Vandals had also theirs own mixed Przeworsk archeological culture, that kept aspects of the previous "Celtic" one, same as the following Slavic "Sukow-Dziedzice", just before the early Polish state. Even the pagan trinity of worshiped by Poles gods reflects this situation, so we had: Jasza [Yassa] - Celtic Essus equivalent, Lado - Slavic, Lela - West Slavic goddess, suspiciously similar to the Scandinavian Hela, expecialy her half rotten Marzanna form/doughter.

[@perun5984]

That's interesting theory, however we are pretty sure that the name of the country "Poland " comes from the word "Pola" - fields / plains

[@jonkore2024]

Especially the southern part along the Carpathian mountains

[@ArtUrArtusKarczem]

Witam 🖐️, mam na imię ArtUr, co oznacza niedźwiedź, młody i szlachetny. Imię nadał mi ojciec od imienia króla Celtów Artusa. Mam korzenie Celtyckie od strony babci, mamy mojego ojca. Moja rodzina przyszła do Polski z terenów Czech w XV wieku. Życzę Wam wszystkim szczęśliwości i pomyślności ♥️😌🙏

[@eastwest1970]

Thank you for everything

[@barryoconnor721]

Being half Polish and half Irish, this intrigued me.

[@kaloarepo288]

Italy,especially the north has an amazing Celtic/Gallic history -everywhere north of the Rubicon river used to be called Gallia Cisalpina.Many placenames of Celtic origin such as Brianza,Sinigallia and Gallarate to name just a few -the latter city is near Milan and means area of the Gauls -I have relatives from there who have red hair -amazing evidence of the Celtic presence in Italy.

[@tracefleemangarcia8816]

Red hair is more common in Germanic-descended peoples than Celtic ones.

[@jacekpalubinski7171]

Until XIX century Poland was a safe haven for all sort of refuges. Those Celts were probably displaced from their homeland by some misfortune. Immigrants in Poland retain their distinct identity for many generations because Poland is a land of freedom and tolerance.

[@g-rexsaurus794]

This is a made up notion, Poland before the migration era during late antiquity had little to do with the Poland after the Slavic migration, heck there were many more discontinuity events after. The idea that you can make analogy between different period in Polish history in insane, let alone history of Poland before the notion of Poland existed.

[@g-rexsaurus794]

@Bolthro Veblu Muh German propaganda, except Polish archeologists accept it too: www.academia.edu/37471966/Its_a_mans_world_Germanic_societies_of_the_Jastorf_and_the_Przeworsk_cultures_in_southern_and_central_Poland_300_BC_10_AD_

[@magdaty1815]

@@g-rexsaurus794 but you know what is true for sure LOL some people are so thick, they oppose obvious facts Poland has been the aim of migration for centuries - true whoever says otherwise knows nothing and they are not worth reading

[@tracymcgeachie7525]

Enjoyed this subject

[@knuckles1206]

Me too..on the end we arf all connected

[@shaolindreams]

Like there is Gaul, Gallic Spain, Gallic Anatolia.... There is a region to the East of Poland called Galatia.

[@Downey-2000]

They are the hitittes.

[@augustuscaesar8287]

Galatians are in Turkey, their capitol was Ankara.

[@shaolindreams]

@@augustuscaesar8287 Yeah i already said Anatolia.

[@augustuscaesar8287]

@@shaolindreams I know, but I was clarifying, as you said there's a region east of Poland called Galatia. I was clarifying that the Anatolian Celts specifically are called Galatians, despite the aforementioned region east of Poland.

[@kolakpatolik1857]

@@augustuscaesar8287 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galicia_(Eastern_Europe)

[@qboxer]

'It seems that they didn't fight' As anyone with knowledge of ancient history must, I highly doubt that assertion. Conflict is the norm in human history, and its absence honestly must be proven in order to be accepted.

[@allgodsnomasters2822]

abusers and authoritarians like to assume everyone else thinks the way they do

[@qboxer]

@@allgodsnomasters2822 What do you mean?

[@spiritlove3168]

Empire of the Sarmatians; New Translation: Gallus Anon, 1100 AD: "SLAV EMPIRE NEVER CONQUERED BY ANYONE IN ALL HISTORY" Great Empire of Godi kzbin.info/www/bejne/e3TReK1mfbKLqs0 Dr Charles Kos "I purchased a copy of a chronicle recently translated into English in 2003. It says that the slav state Poland is only part of a much larger country called Slavonia which has never been conquered by anyone in history. Obviously this opposes the conventional view of history, with the Slavs emerging from some singularity in Belarus and conquering alleged German areas!! Backing up previous assertions in Videos with evidence from this 909 year old chronicle. How good is this!!!!!!!! WOOOOHOOOOOOO! They were probably the "Germans and Sarmatians" who fought wars with Rome. Marcomanni were Czecks = Germans mixed with Slavs."

[@bnasc9670]

Didnt he mean the Roman empire and the settlements in the area of Poland didnt battle.

[@hondacbrification]

One of the so called Celtic coin in the video has a horse rider using a bow while riding a horse is very Scythian really

[@knuckles1206]

Agree

[@papazataklaattiranimam]

Nice topic🧐

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[@user-cx6pw6mf9h]

"Forgotten ancient celtic history of Poland" As he shows the Battersea shield, From Lloegr

[@ismayilarifoglu6226]

Polska will be the leading European power in near future. The nation is tough, religious, traditional and uniform. Remember my words.

[@bnasc9670]

That is true, they were before under the Kings and they just need a charismatic leader to regain eastern lands stolen by stalin and given to belarus and ukraine.

[@pawelgrzesznik9210]

LOOOOL

[@yohiniekana554]

I get along very well with polish people. I dont know why. Even when i was working in customer service i had a client calling. We were joking around and had amazing conversation. At the end she said she is polish and asked what am i? I Said im tamil. She said seems like we have some past life connections 😁

[@marciecorda5209]

You misled. There is NO PAST LIVE CONNECTION. We live ONLY ONCE in this world. Yu are brainwashed by FALSE PAGAN HINDU teachings.

[@bnasc9670]

@@marciecorda5209 No your the one whos brainwashed. Explain what happens to people if there was no karma between lives. Shit just happens?

[@magdaty1815]

@@marciecorda5209 why do you impose your beliefs on others? beliefs are meant to be an individual matter you place yourself among those who burnt Giordano Bruno at stake, who burnt books in 3rd Reich and those who destroyed The Buddhas of Bamiyan in such company you will spend eternity according to your beliefs?

[@johnmoldoch-vj2jk]

Polish Diplomacy.

[@jadakowers590]

A fairly long while back, there was either a video or internet site that claimed that most people of Polish origin have very distant DNA origins to the northwestern India areas (now Pakistan) &/or Iran areas. Another claimed most Polish people have Bulgarian, and Northern ( Russian and Ukrainian) DNA. Does anyone else know anything about this?

[@tonyu5985]

Did not leave a genetic impression Poland is closer to Iran. northern India, Tarim mummies and other Slavic countries when it comes to genetics.

[@g-rexsaurus794]

Closer to Iran than to Western Europe? Lol no

[@tonyu5985]

@@g-rexsaurus794 R1a not R1b check it out on wiki Aryan gene R1a and check an R1a map vs R1b.

[@g-rexsaurus794]

@@tonyu5985 R1a/R1b is only your Y-DNA chromosome, which is a small part of your entire genome as a male. Poles share much more with other Europeans in terms of overal Indo-European admixutre AND non-Indo-European admixture while they share only some neolithic Anatolian admixture and some IndoEuropean admixture with Iranic speakers and less with Indians.

[@Lechoslaw8546]

@@g-rexsaurus794 Poles are Close to ancient Persia and Brahmin caste of India, period. Genetics do not lie. While Poles have Europe's highest ratio of R1a 60". then 100 million India's Brahmin have 72% of R1a. On top of that Polish language, along with Lithuanian is closest to Sanskrit than all other nonSlavic languages of Europe. Proximity of Polish and Slavic are striking, many common words are still the same. But Poles are also close to western European, better to say they are west European as they continously inhabit Central Europe for minimum seven thousand years, despite all lies we hear.

[@niewinnny]

I myself am two meters, weight over 100 kilos, blue eyes, long hair and I'm over 40. I'm pissed off like a Pole and I'm proud

[@toastbight]

I have both Irish and Polish. Wonder if my deep ancestors met during that.

[@bolinfan1519]

As do I. Your Irish ancestors and some of your Polish ancestors came from the area surrounding the Sea of Galilee. Galilee = Gaul. Beware of historians who say a race "disappeared" as some say about the Celts in Poland, the Sarmatians, the Israelites, etc. There were no phasers from Star Trek in those times. Still aren't.

[@attilalukacs9602]

R1a M458 (763-43I bc) (MX265) found Singen Germany recently who is connected to the La Tene, Halstatt culture, strong genetics to the Balkans, Hungary and Austria. I am R1a M458 (Western B), my parents were Hungarian born, my father was of Polish descent, my gt. grandmother Austrian origin with Bavarian ancestry from my Grandfather. My Ancestry dna results, 25% German Bavarian, 53% Polish (Polish PodKarpie, some in Ukraine) 22% Balkan. Apparantly I'm Western Slav (I agree). I have the "Keltic curse", diagnosed by my doctor, Rosacea. So I am almost pure blood Eastern Kelt Balkan today. My y chromosome moved from the west to the East, now common in Poland. This video says it all. I said this 10 years ago and I was not taken seriously, ignored.and dismissed.

[@g-rexsaurus794]

A random sample doesn't mean R1a M458 comes from there, for all we know it could have come itself from the East, but in any case it doesn't matter where it came, it's just a male lineage subject to founder effects, what matters is where it started exploding in quantity and to which autosomal profile it was connected during said expansion.

[@attilalukacs9602]

No don't necessarily mean it originated there but it also could show that it does, after it came from the East, then expanded in Central Europe as R1a M458 clearly shows today, R1a M458 is common in the Czech republic where Celtic Boii settled and S. Poland today, fact is R1a M458 has been found smack bang in the middle of the Celtic world and one random find is still some evidence, not proof but some strong evidence. Look at R1a M458 today, matches the R1a M458 (MX265) migration to Czech republic and Poland and expansion. We know Celts moved from the west to the east. And expanded even more among west Slavs where its it's common among west Slavs today.

[@attilalukacs9602]

R1a M458 L1029 does show an expansion in central europe and is not called Central European for nothing, matches Celtic expansions too if you look close enough.

[@hondacbrification]

@@attilalukacs9602 There was no such as Slavic identity it’s later made up by Romans. AnGael=Angel=Anđel=Lengyel=Engel=Polish is just a basic example how did Romans changed the none Roman identity where a Polish person doesn’t understand BulgARIANS who are according to Romans so called Slav as Polish even do in name they are Arians. Majority of Hungarians have the Bulgarian Rác DNA for the mixture happened in Asia and the Polish and SakSon(Bavarian and British) is very common amongst Hungarian for this groups where known to have been in the region around Urral.

[@hondacbrification]

@@attilalukacs9602 The Russian language as such didn’t even existed 2000 years ago as it is a mixture of Polish,Bulgarian and other languages which the case in BaalKhan where Serbian language derived from Bulgarian mixing with Hungarian and English compared to Romanian that is a mixture of Hungarian-Bulgarian-AlBanian-Gaelic

[@AncientExploration420]

Great video :)

[@nancyannirvin4507]

Good video. Short and filled with data

[@jcummins2177]

Thank you for making this video

[@maciejsyrokomla-syrokomski838]

You should have studied how to pronounce Polish, here mostly the names of places.

[@pawelgrzesznik9210]

Right 😂

[@papazataklaattiranimam]

Celtic peoples gone almost everywhere in Europe🤨

[@papazataklaattiranimam]

@Lysimachus Galatians

[@dukadarodear2176]

Yes. The "Celts" went everywhere in Europe except to 'Celtic' Ireland. Ireland was visited by Celtic Culture - not by Celtic People.

[@jakkeledin4645]

Not on Skandinavia.

[@Dziki_z_Lasu]

Archeology is abaut the culture, not peoples. Genetic studies showed that same people live in territory of Poland since the bronze age. Later cultures of "germanic" Przeworsk and "Slavic" Prague, especially in Greater Poland also shows continuity with the previous ones. The next step ware early Polish states. BTW. There is a theory that the name Lech the legendary founder of Poland came from the Celtic god Lugh, same as the synonymous of ancient times, king Świeczek was Celtic Swiekka in the original form.

[@ngatiarihi8502]

@@papazataklaattiranimam The Galatians were largely a confederation of Galli tribes and mercenaries.The Roman occupation of Anatolia resulted in a genocide of those of Galatian ancestry or the Gallograeci the blend of Greeks and Gauls-Celts .The Romans may have despised the transalpine Iron Age Celtic tribes (for sacking an early Rome) yet exalted and the Greeks more, a fusion with so called 'barbarians' might have been a factor , as well as the Celtic fierce independence ?

[@allgodsnomasters2822]

Women of Poland carry the warrior spirit of celts before us and all women who fought against empire! May the self determination of their bodies be preserved and may men and christians fear goddesses once again!

[@g-rexsaurus794]

Celts were patriarchal lol

[@DocArthurTX]

It hurts my ears to hear Kujawy, Gorzow etc mispronounced. Would be good to learn how to pronounce these words before making the video. It's really not prohibitively difficult.

[@magdaty1815]

someone involved in the culture war will not pronounce the names right, that would be defying the purpose he gave himself

[@NorthCharlton]

It would materially assist your viewers if you added zoom-in map inserts showing the relation of these discoveries to widely recognizable boundaries or cities, and including scales in miles and kilometers. I doubt if anyone in the UK or The U.S. has much idea of what constitutes Lesser Poland. Tacitus mentions the tribe of the Cotini, notable for their mining (and metalworking I suppose) as living somewhere in the area you seem to be describing, i.e., southern Poland and Northern Slovakia in a period when they purportedly lived under the domination of Germanic tribes.

[@alexgabriel5423]

The Cauldron of Gundestrup [shown here at 1:47] was found in Gundestrup, Denmark is Thracian as reassigned by NK Sandars in his book( that is now in its paperback edition) The Pre-historic Art of Europe...although mistakenly believed to be Celtic earlier by the 'specialists'at the National Museum in Denmark. Both subject and workmanship are Thracian according to NK Sandars.■ Information rather than Confusion should be the goal here especially as Sandars book is quite old and popular enough to be in available in paperback for a long time now! ■

[@robertm.-mh6no]

Hi, I would like you to make a video about the DNA and haplogroups of Poles. I am Italian and I have the R1a haplogroup which is very present in Poland. Thanks bye.

[@GediminasStrum]

So balts and celts were neighbours. interesting. BTW lithuania has word tauta ( nation ) similar as celtic word. And Ilyrian queens name was Teuta.

[@allgodsnomasters2822]

thats very interesting!

[@Killermonkey5465]

I like the cadence of narration good vid!

[@jimmykeating2029]

Thank you 🙏 I enjoy you guys

[@studyofantiquityandthemidd4449]

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[@caitryan8262]

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[@studyofantiquityandthemidd4449]

@@caitryan8262 thank you! Your kind words of support mean the world to us! And Celtic merchandise is on the to do list! Who wouldn’t love Celtic history merch!

[@kebman]

Make history great again :D

[@joeshmoe8345]

Thanks

[@Huyedelomalo]

How about the pre-Maori population of New Zealand? Just a suggestion

[@MateuszTeter]

Ahhh that's why I love bagpipes

[@TarebossT]

Next: Celts in Transylvania

[@vizualnihistorie]

Hello I am from Moravia and I have even done videos about my genetics and I am very much interconnected with southern Poland ❤.

[@MichaelT_123]

There are striking similarities between polish highlanders (south of Poland) and Irish cultures. Dances and musical instruments are show common threads. Music has similar rhythm, and most importantly they drink equally well without showing side effects on the next day. Genetics...?

[@knuckles1206]

Lol

[@SMiki55]

Góral culture was influenced by Vlachs (Wallachians), not Celts.

[@MichaelT_123]

@@SMiki55 Will not argue! In any drinking party there is a chain of influencers. :)

[@bnasc9670]

You missed the similar affinity to drinking. They can handle the spyritus.

[@kasiakondracki5171]

Can someone please list the names of the places the narrator mentioned? They're so mispronounced, I've no idea what they are so I could read more about this.

[@briananderson2219]

Please do a video on Cro-Magnon invasion of Western Europe

[@sakka9432]

Excellent presentation! But it is my understanding that Celtic and Proto Slavic languages would be Indo European, correct? So really brothers like the fable Cain and Abel, or in this case Cain vs Cain - ha!

[@qboxer]

Very distantly related, relatively speaking. The divergence was almost certainly in the Bronze Age.

[@sakka9432]

@@qboxer Thank ya Sir!

[@lamebubblesflysohigh]

Celtic, Slavic, Germanic, Iranic and Latin all come from same ancestral language. However Slavic has much in common with Germanic with Celtic because these two evolved next to each other and thus influenced each other.

[@bnasc9670]

I understand that Portugese sounds slavic

[@borzmir9326]

@Zosia Aniela germanic languages are more similar to Slavic then to Celtic

[@jameshartshorn377]

Ya gotta love all the reenactors .

[@kimberlyperrotis8962]

Is there evidence (DNA) of population transfer, or just cultural transfer, as in most parts of Europe. Celtic culture was nearly a pan-European phenomenon, but DNA studies are mostly discrediting the conquest/migration theories of the past. Generally, most populations just stayed where they were, and new aspects, material culture, including technology, came by trade or diffusion. There are documented exceptions, of course, especially when male lineages are replaced (young males are the most likely to engage in conquest), but I think we should start with the premise that there were few large-scale population movements unless the DNA proves otherwise.

[@studyofantiquityandthemidd4449]

Brilliant questions and thoughts Kimberly! I live for these comments! I need to find some experts on this topic and bring them on!

[@stefanodadamo6809]

One doesn't think much about Poland when Celts are involved, indeed. Still this huge (web of strictly related) culture(s) that basically dominated Europe for centuries on never came up with any serious form of political self-conscience or strive for unification: or so it seems, for only Greek and Roman sources tell us something about them, usually in vague or scathing terms.

[@deanfirnatine7814]

Because Celts did not write the history we read, our enemies did

[@stefanodadamo6809]

@@deanfirnatine7814 "our" enemies: you weren't there. Otherwise I myself could consider myself somehow a Celt, being a descendendant by mother side of Cisalpine Gauls... But my father should be an Italic, a Samnite. Do you actually speak a Celtic language?

[@Ian-vj5pv]

The presence of coins used for traide is not a proof of the setelments. The genetic composition of Polish is primarily ancient R1a1a haplogroup especially in current central and eastern Poland. The celtic R1b is a small minority coming mainly from german late settlers. The region was always dominated by Slavonic tribes, not celts or germanic tribes. Follow current genetic studies that are more reliable than clasical archaeology.

[@MrSecoBaba]

Ohh polish are celt too?

[@damian4926]

I'm glad that videos like this exist.

[@withinhistoriesgrasp9307]

Besides a some graves and other buried object coins etc… how much do we know about the Celtic world in Poland and beyond

[@Dziki_z_Lasu]

Polish Celts made at least 3 big sculptures and rised a dozen of mounds. In 2-nd century BC they mixed with Germanics and 6-th century AD Slavs, what is genetically prooven. From what was found, archeology deducted theirs whole lifestyle, that was generaly Celtic for that period. Celts beyond Poland, live to this day in parts of UK, Ireland and France and are usualy a nice people.

[@patrycjakonieczna]

Yeah, definitely Southern Poland, Moravia, Czech (Bohemia, from Celtic Boi tribe) were previously occupied by Celts. It is visible also in names, for instance San river, Sanok town. It is speculated whom the Krak was: more Slav or more Celt. As Polish I must say my ancient history and culture is still very cryptic and no relevant to me. We need more evidence than cultural artefacts. I am waiting for more relevant DNA test to confirm our real origins and origins of Piast dynasty which members are burried in Wawel Cathedral tombs.

[@krzysztofjot3581]

What if "Piasts" have the Sieciech as ancestor? Bolesław Krzywousty could be his son.

[@patrycjakonieczna]

@@krzysztofjot3581 We cannot say it for sure. Sieciech live when Piast were on the throne for more than a century. But there is one good news. At last I looked forward for some results of the research performed by Poznan's group of researches about Polish People DNA (updated on August 2023). You may find it wherever, even on National Geographic. I just note some facts. First, it seems we've lived here for many centuries having been enriched by some new DNA from Eastwrn Eurasia. So we did not appear in Central Europe after 500AD but much earlier. Second, vast majority of burials were ash burials. In that case we haven't got full material, so researchers took Wieleci DNA into consideration. If you ask for monarchy and high clergymen, researchers were not allowed to conduct any tests, etc., to come to Gniezno or Wawel. So these are the only two groups not included in any research due to such cryptic refusal. It is really strange for me because we cannot touch the most important persons in Polish Royal family and church hierarchy. Maybe one day it would be a chance to look at Sieciech's and others DNA.

[@krzysztofjot3581]

@@patrycjakonieczna DNA is not the same as culture. Slavic culture is language. So it is important what language used people who of course were our genetic ancestors. And I surprise you - for me it is most probably, that slavic language was evolutioned on polish lands. Becouse of Sieciech any genetic studies of people from Piast dynasty are uselles. Except Sieciech - there are more doubts, for example Dobrawa probably was not a virgin when married Miesco I, Thietmar called Guncelin, the son of Ekkehard as brother of Boleslaw Chrobry.

[@patrycjakonieczna]

@@krzysztofjot3581 @krzysztofjot3581 I agree. Thank you. I forgot to add that researchers also looked at the cultural artefacts. Thanks to these new research we have certainity that cultures like corded ware could be connected to the same people in spite of extended territory. It is important to note they still haven't had idea how and when Slavonic People appeared, when they noticed they are different from Celts or Germans. This is dissapointing. Centuries ago people had different notion of their origins, there were so many rapes, invasions, so many people like Kings could not be real fathers of their children like you said probably in case of Sieciech and Piasts. I do not know how Polish language evolved but I have some linguistic knowledge and try to guess. I opt for the closest relation to Baltic branch because both Slavonic and Baltic languages kept the most of Proto Indoeuropean elements to other European families of languages. We have not much source texts and scriptures written in Slavonic and they are not as old as we would.

[@krzysztofjot3581]

@@patrycjakonieczna I of course know that baltic and slavic languages were together and separate about 1000 - 500 b.c. But still do not know where they lived in that time. For example Slavic people could live near the Smolensk and go south with Dniepr (Kijev culture). But I beliewe that Slavic people are cultural sons of Wenedians who lived in Poland, near Vistula river, between Baltic Sea and Karpathian mountains.

[@jonkore2024]

Galatia region is an indicator of Celtic

[@piotrpawlowski2513]

Wyszukaj informacje o R1A1.bedziesz zdziwiony

[@cynthiarowley719]

Celtic culture vs Celtic DNA? So many group called celtic that aren't related by DNA.

[@Downey-2000]

R1B heplogroup

[@allgodsnomasters2822]

Cause Celtic describes a language family not a DNA group, if you wanna classify previous people by their haplogroup go ahead but that doesnt line up one to one with whose speaking celtic languages, making celtic art, and continuing celtic traditions

[@LeicaM11]

The polish girls with nail polish found polished polish coins.

[@artworks7510]

What happened to the celts? Still in Poland. Just mixed with other locals. Thats all.

[@mixererunio1757]

Love how you butchered almost every city name.

[@nobody8328]

Nick doesn't do anything by halves! Plus, that's read by someone else. 🙂

[@VikingMuayThai]

You guys use letters that aren’t even in our alphabet 😂

[@jameswells554]

Polish sounds like a toddler speaking with a mouth full of marbles. It's all slurred, and jumbled; not at all like the Beautiful, Powerful Russian Language.

[@_VICK_]

If you don’t like it, put the time and effort in to make your own videos 🤷🏻‍♀️

[@gerardterveer9026]

I do'nt agree; I prefer to hear the correct pronounciation in polish, according to the local names principle.

[@daviddantonio5702]

Nothing to do with signing Patryck Klimala

[@wallacemcdonald9745]

I’d look under the churches and deeeep underground.

[@niewinnny]

And try this difficult language ?? I am a Pole myself, I will say YES, you will never learn if you don't have a soul

[@Lechoslaw8546]

Why difficult? You are a victim of manipulation.

[@magdaty1815]

Far too easy I'd say. I wish it was difficult so no one could be bothered. But it was so easy for the enemy and we made it far too easy for them to destroy us from the inside. Oh, the self-destructiveness of the righteous ones.

[@veronicamartha5354]

Wrocław is pronounced Vroswav

[@annmariebudyn]

I visited a Celtic museum there.

[@pawelgorczycs9444]

Newest genetic study shows that Poles live at the same territory for around 10000 years. Maybe eastern Celts are very close connected to Slavic culture may be is even the same culture? Who knows..

[@inregionecaecorum]

Same people, different cultures over time, culture is like the clothing you wear. It is still you underneath, but you appear differently according to how you dress.

[@przemyslawpodbielski1620]

Yeah and they brought some knowledge to us .ha ha ha. Celts and us coming from the same origin.

[@g-rexsaurus794]

Lol no, Slavs expanded over Central Europe only from around 500 CE onwards. We see signs of discontinuity, plus the autosomal profile of people in Poland changed at least 2 times in a major ways, first by the migration of Neolithic farmers and then Europeans, but probably a couple times more later on too.

[@Grace-cx9zu]

Lector should take care with when pronouncing Polish names.

[@pindzyn]

My country. We will see what have you done later 😅

[@misiek_xp4886]

You butcher those names so badly

[@FPSSarinGaming]

Comertia?

[@dhrubajyotisarmah6733]

A hindu saint name poulyasta who was the son of lord brahma was the father of poles

[@bnasc9670]

Where is this written? And why was he in Poland

[@jadakowers590]

⁠He was there because everyone wants to go to Poland at least once. 😉 Hope this gave you a chuckle. Both your response and the comment are sincerely very interesting!

[@hermanmunster714]

Nothing to see here Just propaganda. These were not Celtic warrior sites these were Polish warrior sites in Poland. Nice try. Lol.

[@buddavaio]

„Celtowie na ziemiach polskich - Przemysław Dulęba, Dawid Sych | KONTEKST 4” kzbin.info/www/bejne/eXzUq2pteJx5ick

[@D_R757]

I fuck with the intro bro

[@przemyslawpodbielski1620]

Thanks for this but we're well developed before Celts arrived.

[@knuckles1206]

Slave most likely were more to the east then west or north

[@Lechoslaw8546]

@@knuckles1206 Nonsense.

[@igitt426]

at least google how to pronounce all these places

[@igitt426]

loved the video though

[@codeN_8]

😮😮😮

[@MrMarianoamigo]

Me like:)

[@landkreuzer1641]

POLSKA GÓROM!!1!1!11!1!!!1!1111!11!

[@hermanmunster714]

With technology impacting archeology daily it is not so easy to hide deny and fabricate Polish warrior origins. These cemeteries were Polish warriors not Celtic warriors.

[@buddavaio]

„Celtowie na ziemiach polskich - Przemysław Dulęba, Dawid Sych | KONTEKST 4” kzbin.info/www/bejne/eXzUq2pteJx5ick

[@SporeMurph]

Your promoting of "mysteries" and "the unexplained" is very disappointing. We all know that means bunkum. Is this a scientific, historical channel or does it promote pseudoscience now?