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The Kelt or Gael.
Rhaetia,
Vindelicia,
Noricum,
Pannonia,
Moesia or
Thrace.
Galatia.
fact, Alp means a peak. It is the same root as
Alb in Albion and Alban. The root is doubled
in Apennine, i.e.. Alb, and pen, which also means
peak. We have it in Ben Nevis, Ben Lomond,
the Pennine range, and the twelve Pins in Ireland,
which is a corruption of the twelve Bens. Between
B.C. 15 and B.C. 13, Tiberius, Drusus, and S.
Italicus crossed the Alps, and conquered the sub-
Danubian provinces of Rhaetia, Vindelicia, and
Noricum. Pannonia, superior and inferior, and
Moesia, superior and inferior, had been conquered
a few years previously ; but the whole of those
countries, all of which were Keltic, were made
Roman provinces in the reign of Augustus.
These countries comprise the present Bavaria,
Northern Switzerland, the Tyrol, the whole of
German Austria, part of Hungary, the whole of
Slavonia, Croatia and Bosnia, Servia and Bulgaria;
in fact, the whole of the southern bank of the
Danube or Ister, from its rise to its outfall in the
Black Sea. Broadly speaking, the Danube was
the southern boundary between the Kelt on one
side, and the German and Slav on the other.
Moesia was originally part of Thrace ; but
Augustus called the portion between the Haemus
range and the Danube Moesia, and the remainder
retained its old name. It is clear, then, that the
ethnology of Moesia Is the ethnology of Thrace,
and also of Macedonia.
About B.C. 279 Brennus, the Gaul c.r Kelt,
invaded Macedonia and Thcssaly with an army