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Ancient cities tagged “celtic”

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🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city

Tavium (Büyükkale / Büyüknefes)

Bronze Age to Byzantine · Hattian/Hittite → Phrygian → Galatian Celtic → Roman

Galatian Trocmi capital at Büyüknefes with Hellenistic walls, Roman avenue and Bryaxis Zeus emporion.

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🇩🇪 Germany · Ancient city

Heuneburg Hillfort — Herbertingen-Hundersingen

Early Iron Age (Hallstatt D, c.620–500 BCE) · Early Celtic (Hallstatt west, Hunsrück? Hallstatt princely)

The Heuneburg (Hallstatt D1, c.600–540 BCE) is Central Europe's earliest princely seat (Fürstensitz) on a 3-hectare plateau 40 m above the Danube near Hundersingen, famed for its Mediterranean-style…