| Caesar records that the Belgae raided maritime areas of Britain and that some eventually settled there. |
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| In 58 BC, the Roman leader Julius Caesar called the region's Belgae tribes the toughest opponents he had faced. |
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| Belgium derives its name from a Celtic tribe, the Belgae, whom Caesar described as the most courageous tribe of Gaul. |
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| No doubt more good things can come out of the swathe of territory once occupied by a tribe known to the Romans as the Belgae. |
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| At the time of the Roman occupation, the region was inhabited by the Regni in the south-east, the Belgae towards the south-west, and the Atrebates in the north. |
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| During the late 2nd or early 1st century bc, a small band of Belgae crossed to Britain. |
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| The Belgae gave their name to the Roman province of Gallia Belgica and, much later, to the modern country of Belgium. |
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| Their garrison had come under siege during a rebellion by the tribes of the Belgae led by Ambiorix. |
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| The fact that the Belgae were living in Gaul means that in one sense they were Gauls. |
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| During their 1st century BC Roman military campaign, Caesar's contacts among the Remi stated that the Nervii were the most warlike of the Belgae. |
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| Caesar claimed that the Belgae generally had received immigration from Germanic people from east of the Rhine. |
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| As they approached the besieged Roman camp, the Belgae moved to engage Caesar's troops. |
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| Caesar's forces launched a fierce counterattack, and soon put the Belgae to flight. |
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| The Roman campaigns against the Belgae took a few years, but eventually the tribes were slaughtered or driven out and their fields burned. |
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| He immediately went on to a campaign against the Belgae, and the disposition of the lands on the Rhine is missing from his account. |
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| It seems clear that Celtic culture and language were very influential upon the Belgae, especially those in modern France. |
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| The western and southern Belgae flourished within the Roman province of Gallia Belgica, along with the Treveri. |
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| According to Julius Caesar, the Britons further inland than the Belgae believed that they were indigenous. |
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| Ptolemy stated that Bath was in the territory of the Belgae, but this may be a mistake. |
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| While the Aquitani were probably Vascons, the Belgae would thus probably be a mixture of Celtic and Germanic elements. |
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| Of all these, the Belgae too, on the side of the Sequani and the Helvetii, upon the river Rhine, and stretches toward the north. |
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| While the Aquitani were probably Vascons, the Belgae would thus probably be counted among the Gaulish tribes, perhaps with Germanic elements. |
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| The people across from Britain in Caesar's time are the Germani in the north and the Belgae in the south. |
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| Venta became the capital of the administrative polity of the Belgae, which included most of Hampshire and Wiltshire and reached as far as Bath. |
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| Some peoples in Britain were also called Belgae and O'Rahilly equated them with the Fir Bolg in Ireland. |
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| Some translators of Caesar have given crucially different interpretations of his meaning in another passage on the Belgae. |
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| Other tribes that may have been included among the Belgae in some contexts were the Leuci, Treveri, and Mediomatrici. |
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| The Belgae attacked over the river, but were repulsed after a fierce battle. |
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| The Belgae had made their way across the English Channel into southern Britain in Caesar's time. |
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| Germanic peoples who lived south and west of the Rhine and may have been distinct from the Belgae. |
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| At other times, Caesar more clearly divides Belgic Gaul into the Belgae and another smaller group called the Germani. |
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| Caesar later added the Segni to the list of tribes among the Belgae who went by the name of the Germani. |
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| The names of Belgium and the Aquitaine hark back to Gallia Belgica and Gallia Aquitania, respectively, in turn named for the Belgae and the Aquitani. |
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| Wary of the numbers and bravery of the Belgae, he initially avoided a pitched battle, resorting mainly to cavalry skirmishes to probe their strengths and weaknesses. |
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| Caesar says that the Belgae were separated from the rest of Gaul by language, law and custom, and he also says they had Germanic ancestry, but he does not go into detail. |
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| While some scholars believe the Belgae south of the Somme were a mixture of Celtic and Germanic elements, their ethnic affiliations have not been definitively resolved. |
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| Apart from the Germani in this strict sense then, it is unclear to what extent if any that Caesar believed the other Belgae to have similar transrhenane ancestry. |
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| All Gaul is divided into three parts, one of which the Belgae inhabit, the Aquitani another, those who in their own language are called Celts, in ours Gauls, the third. |
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| Vastly outnumbered, Caesar ordered his troops to appear confused and frightened, and they successfully lured the Belgae to attack them on ground favourable to the Romans. |
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| His argument was largely based on Caesar's description of his campaigns in Gaul, modern France, where he described three native groups, the Belgae, Aquitani and Celtoi. |
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