Bellovaci

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A map of Gaul in the 1st century BC, showing the relative position of the Bellovaci tribe.
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A map of Gaul in the 1st century BC, showing the relative position of the Bellovaci tribe.

The Bellovaci were the most powerful and numerous of the Belgic tribes of north-eastern Gaul conquered by Julius Caesar in 57 BC. The name survives today in the French city of Beauvais, called by the Romans Caesaromagus.

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