In regards to British history, who are the Celts, Britons, Picts and Anglo-Saxons?
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The Celts are a large collection of European peoples united by a common language family and some cultural similarities. They once lived across the British Isles, western and central Europe, and Anatolia but by the 1st century AD they had mostly been absorbed by Roman or Germanic culture in mainland Europe and were restricted to the British Isles and northwest France.
The Britons were the subgroup of Celts living in modern-day England, Wales, and southern Scotland. Their language and culture survived Roman conquest between the 1st and 5th centuries. The Picts were a related Celtic culture occupying northeastern Scotland. However, their language was gradually subsumed by the Gaelic language, a different Celtic language more closely related to Irish.
The Anglo-Saxons were Germanic tribes from Saxony (now in modern-day Germany) and Anglia (now modern-day Denmark) who began migrating to and settling in modern-day England in the 5th century. They converted to Christianity and founded their own kingdoms, and gradually displaced the native Britons to modern-day Wales, Cornwall, and Cumbria. Their language also became the foundation for the modern English language.
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