The Urnfield culture (c. 1300 BC – 750 BC) was a late Bronze Age culture of central Europe. The name comes from the custom of cremating the dead and placing their ashes in urns which were then buried in fields.
Map: The Middle East in showing the establishment of the Seljuk sultanate of "Rum" (Rome) and the retreat of the Eastern Roman Empire from its Anatolian heartlands.
It seems likely that the Celts reached the north-south section of the Danube by the century BCE as is shown by several La Tene B cemetaries in the Danube bend and north-eastern Hungary.
Topic: Roman Republic The Celts (pronounced "kelts") were the ancient inhabitants of Northern Europe. Julius Caesar had battled them during his conquest of Gaul. The Romans eventually took most of Britain and the Iberia.