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In the fourth century b.c.e. a number of allied tribes of Celts first settled in the Danube Basin and displaced Illyrians and other peoples of the region. According to ancient Greek sources at the start of the third century b.c.e. some tribes pushed farther southward in the ancient regions of Thrace and Macedon on the Balkan Peninsula. Bolgius was one of their leaders. By 279 b.c.e. the Galatoi had migrated deep into Greece, probably as far as Delphi, under leaders, perhaps legendary, by the names of Brennus and Achichorios. They eventually were repelled.
After the invasion into Greece had failed, varying tribes or factions settled in different areas. some became mercenaries for the Macedonians; others under Achichorios founded the kingdom of Tylis in Thrace among the Scythians; still others settled on the site of present-day Belgrade, Yugoslavia. There they were known as Scordisci, one of the powerful groups in the region; those small numbers who managed to stay in Greece—and any others who migrated there over the centuries—adopted the Greek language and were called Gallograeci ("Gallic Greeks") by Greek-speaking inhabitants. some tribes among the Celts—the Tectosages, Tolistobogii, and Trocmi, origi-
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