Fighting in the Buff: Did Celtic Warriors Really Go to War Naked?

The Celts were called “Gauls” by the Romans as a term to describe the Celtic tribes inhabiting a broad region of Western Europe, particularly in what is now France, Luxembourg, Belgium, most of Switzerland, Northern Italy, and parts of Germany and the Netherlands. The name “Gaul” comes from the Latin “Gallia,” which was used by the Romans to refer to these areas and their inhabitants. The term distinguished these Celtic groups from other Celtic tribes in different regions, such as the Britons in Britain or the Celtiberians in the Iberian Peninsula.