Galatians (Topical Term)

Oxford class. dict. (Galatia: The name of a region in central Asia Minor stretching east and west of Modern Ankara, comprising parts of what was formerly Phyrgia and Cappadocia; this was occupied and settle by migrating Celtic tribes, who had crossed the Hellespont in 278 BC and reached the area in the following decade after much raiding and plundering in western Anatolia. These Galatians were defeated in two battles [...] around 230 BC and by a Roman army [...] in 189 BC. The Galatians maintained their Celtic character throughout the imperial period and Celtic was still spoken in the rural districts as late as the 6th cent. AD.)

Britannica micro. (Galatia: ancient district in central Anatolia that was occupied early in the 3rd century BC by Celtic tribes, whose bands of marauders created havoc among neighbouring Hellenistic states. [...] the Celts, called Galatae (Galatians) by 3rd-century writers, settled in the territory to which they gave their name. [...] Though originally possessing a strong cultural identity, the Galatians by the 2nd century AD had become absorbed into the Hellenistic civilization of Anatolia.)