Ancient Celtic Placenames in Europe and Asia Minor, Number 39

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 geographyUses 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 CosmographerA significant work for archaeologists, historians and philologists studying the early distribution of Celtic and other Indo-European languages