Celtic
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The words Celt and Celtic (also Keltic) can refer to:

In ethno-linguistics:
  • Celts, a people of the Celtic nations
  • Celts (modern), the modern Celtic identity
  • Celtic languages
    Celtic languages
    The Celtic languages are descended from Proto-Celtic, or "Common Celtic"; a branch of the greater Indo-European language family...

  • Celtic nations
    Celtic nations
    The Celtic nations are territories in North-West Europe in which that area's own Celtic languages and some cultural traits have survived.The term "nation" is used in its original sense to mean a people who share a common traditional identity and culture and are identified with a traditional...

    , the modern territories in North-West Europe where Celtic languages and cultural traits have survived
  • Keltic Nordic, a category from Carleton S. Coon's racial typology


In sports:
  • Celtic F.C.
    Celtic F.C.
    Celtic Football Club is a Scottish football club based in the Parkhead area of Glasgow, which currently plays in the Scottish Premier League. The club was established in 1887, and played its first game in 1888. Celtic have won the Scottish League Championship on 42 occasions, most recently in the...

    , a Scottish football club
  • Boston Celtics
    Boston Celtics
    The Boston Celtics are a National Basketball Association team based in Boston, Massachusetts. They play in the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference. Founded in 1946, the team is currently owned by Boston Basketball Partners LLC. The Celtics play their home games at the TD Garden, which...

    , an American professional basketball team
  • Belfast Celtic F.C., a former Irish/Northern Irish football club
  • Bloemfontein Celtic F.C., a South African football club
  • Dewsbury Celtic
    Dewsbury Celtic
    Dewsbury Celtic is a rugby league club in the town of Dewsbury, West Yorkshire. They play in the National Division of the Rugby League Conference and have a thriving junior section...

    , an English rugby League club
  • Donegal Celtic F.C., a Northern Irish football team
  • Farsley Celtic A.F.C.
    Farsley Celtic A.F.C.
    Farsley Celtic Association Football Club was an English football club based in Farsley, in the City of Leeds. The club was known by the nicknames of the Villagers and the Celts; their colours were blue and white. Founded in 1908, the club spent their entire existence in non-league football, winning...

    , an English football club
  • Lurgan Celtic F.C.
    Lurgan Celtic F.C.
    Lurgan Celtic is an intermediate, Northern Irish football team based in Lurgan, County Armagh, and plays in IFA Championship 2. Its home ground is Knockrammer Park...

    , a Northern Irish football club
  • Oban Celtic
    Oban Celtic
    Oban Celtic is a shinty team from Oban, Argyll, Scotland. The club plays South Division One.-History:The Club was founded in 1927 due to a plethora of players being available who could not get a game for either the senior or the junior side of Oban Camanachd...

    , a Scottish shinty club
  • Stalybridge Celtic F.C.
    Stalybridge Celtic F.C.
    Stalybridge Celtic are an English full time professional football club from Stalybridge, Greater Manchester in North West England. The club, which plays its home matches at Bower Fold, is currently in the Conference North in the sixth tier of the English football league system...

    , an English football club


Other uses:
  • Celt (tool)
    Celt (tool)
    Celt is an archaeological term used to describe long thin prehistoric stone or bronze adzes, other axe-like tools, and hoes.-Etymology:The term "celt" came about from what was very probably a copyist's error in many medieval manuscript copies of Job 19:24 in the Latin Vulgate Bible, which became...

    , a type of stone tool
  • Celtic (ship)
    Celtic (ship)
    Celtic has been the name of a number of ships:, built as a sailing barge in 1903 and converted to a motorship in 1941, a White Star Line liner, a White Star Line liner*USS Celtic , a U.S. Navy supply ship...

    , a number of ships
  • Celtic (water)
    Celtic (water)
    Celtic is a brand of bottled water which is bottled in France. The water comes from Niederbronn-les-Bains a small town in the northern Vosges mountains near Strasbourg.-External links:*...

    , a French brand of bottled water
  • Celtic music
    Celtic music
    Celtic music is a term utilised by artists, record companies, music stores and music magazines to describe a broad grouping of musical genres that evolved out of the folk musical traditions of the Celtic people of Western Europe...

  • Celtic mythology
    Celtic mythology
    Celtic mythology is the mythology of Celtic polytheism, apparently the religion of the Iron Age Celts. Like other Iron Age Europeans, the early Celts maintained a polytheistic mythology and religious structure...

  • The Celts (BBC documentary), a 1986 documentary series produced by the BBC on Celts
  • The Celts (album)
    The Celts (album)
    The Celts is an album by Irish musician Enya, released in 1992. It is a remastered re-release of her 1987 debut album Enya.In addition to having enhanced sound, this new release also contains a different version of the song "Portrait"; extended from 1:23 to 3:11, this version first appeared in 1988...

    , a 1992 album by Irish musician Enya
  • Celtic Frost
    Celtic Frost
    Celtic Frost was a metal band from Zürich, Switzerland. They are known for their heavy influence on the extreme metal genres. The group was first active from 1984 to 1993, and re-formed in 2001. Following Tom Gabriel Fischer's departure in 2008, Celtic Frost decided to break up again...

     a metal band from Zürich, Switzerland.

See also

  • Celticism (disambiguation)
  • Celtic culture (disambiguation)
  • Names of the Celts
    Names of the Celts
    The various names used since classical times for the people known today as the Celts are of disparate origins.The name and is used in Greek and Latin, respectively, as the name of a people of the La Tène horizon in the region of the upper Rhine and Danube during the 6th to 1st centuries BC in...

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