The Belgae tribes and the Roman conquest of Belgium

In this video is a short presentation of the ancient tribes of the Belgae, who lived in today's territory of Belgium. Some of these tribes (Remi, Bellovaci, Morini and Atrebates) were Gallic, while other (Nervii, Aduatuci, Condrusi, Menapii, Treveri) show Germanic features. These tribes were conquered by Romans led by Caesar in 57 BC. For a long time the Belgae were considered to be Gallic people, or a Germanic people dominated by a Gallic aristocracy (hypothesis suggested by the fact that the names of the Belgae chiefs are of Celtic origin, as well as ancient and non-Germanic toponyms). The Belgae gave their name to the Roman province of Gallia Belgica, and very much later, to the modern country of Belgium.
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Voice & editing: Nicolae Bondar (myself)
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  • @CFootprints
    @CFootprints Жыл бұрын

    As a Flemish Belgian, it's a shame I have to search so hard for the history of my own ancestors. Thank you for this, very interesting video. Straight to the point and seems very factual.

  • @gamercatsz5441

    @gamercatsz5441

    Жыл бұрын

    Beluister de podcast van Dan Carlin over de genocide die Caesar en de Romeinen in onze streken heeft uitgevoerd.

  • @troywagnon135
    @troywagnon1354 жыл бұрын

    My ancestors no wonder I'm so aggressive.

  • @bpinkhof

    @bpinkhof

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yes, we are, greetings from Belgium. Our original language was a P Celtic language the father of the common Brythonnic languages.

  • @MustardSkaven

    @MustardSkaven

    3 жыл бұрын

    Eburones belong to Limburg and Liege, not Belgium. They are not Belgian.

  • @alexog1502

    @alexog1502

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@MustardSkaven Liege is Belgium XD

  • @MustardSkaven

    @MustardSkaven

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@alexog1502 And Limburg isn't? The point clearly went over your head.

  • @alexog1502

    @alexog1502

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@MustardSkaven Yes, but I did not know if you were maybe talking about the Limburg from Holland, so I just pointed out the more obvious one. The territories of those tribes are really foggy and complicated.

  • @zxsb2
    @zxsb22 жыл бұрын

    Damn, I have a Dutch mother and Belgian father, so I both have Germanic and Gallic ancestry. Awesome to learn about my own history

  • @guntertorfs6486

    @guntertorfs6486

    2 жыл бұрын

    Recenter onderzoek ( genetisch , geschiedkundig ) toont aan dat het grootste deel van de huidige Belgen , de Vlamingen , niet 'Gallisch ' maar Germaans van afkomst is. Het hangt er dus vanaf van waar in Belgie je vader is.

  • @zxsb2

    @zxsb2

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@guntertorfs6486 Mijn vader komt uit Wallonië, ik had ook zoiets gelezen dat de Vlaamse mensen voornamelijk van de Franken afstammen en de Walloniërs van de Galliërs.

  • @robertneven7563

    @robertneven7563

    Жыл бұрын

    @@zxsb2 en de Friesen in Nederland heebben geen enkelen verwantschap met de zuidelijken Nederlanders,

  • @guigui11001
    @guigui11001 Жыл бұрын

    My family has allways lived between the atrebati and nervii regions (northern modern France). I live 15 minutes drive away from the ancient site of Bagacum (Bavay). I never knew some of these tribes went to form kingdoms in Britain.

  • @Ageust2
    @Ageust24 жыл бұрын

    This is good stuff man, I wish youtube actually showed me your videos more often so i could watch them.

  • @HistoryClass

    @HistoryClass

    4 жыл бұрын

    I'm glad you like my stuff. You need to click on the bell from my channel page to receive notifications, when I post new videos 🙂

  • @THINKincessantly
    @THINKincessantly2 жыл бұрын

    Right off the bat, 15 seconds in and have to comment--The maps are gold! Old maps help connect the history and stories of Europe to how Europe is today--Looking forward to this story.

  • @TWOCOWS1
    @TWOCOWS12 жыл бұрын

    actually, pretty good and free of outlandish claims. thanks. just one important thing you might want to include in here: the name "federati", which the romans heard from them and used for the "federal" way the tribes there associated and treated each other. now we have the name Federal every where

  • @BobSchoepenjr
    @BobSchoepenjr2 жыл бұрын

    Nice work, so I m a MIX 😆

  • @batmansdad4978
    @batmansdad49785 ай бұрын

    It is my belief that my Sir name and shield, given to my family from William the Bastard First Norman King of England and recorded in the Doomsday book of which is one of if not the first census taken of Europia, mainly northern parts of what is now France, ties my family name to that of the Bellovaci. Cantrell or Chantrelle of which is how it was recorded in William the Conquerors census, means people from the bell-shaped hill. Sooo, My question here is are there any known hill locations with a possible ancient fort on top of it in this area of Bellovaci?

  • @LaelaAleal1
    @LaelaAleal14 ай бұрын

    Je recherche svp, des informations sur les menapiens

  • @jacquesmertens3369
    @jacquesmertens3369Ай бұрын

    Historians aren't sure about the Nervii. Some say Caesar could not distinguish them from the Eburones and that he mixed them up. But I think Caesar was spot on. The natural border between the Nervii and the Eburones was the river Dijle. The Nervii were much braver than the backstabbing Eburones. When Caesar wrote about the bravery of the Belgians he referred mainly to the Nervii, and certainly not to the Eburones.

  • @Lazona777
    @Lazona7773 жыл бұрын

    most of all there are Kartvelian ( Georgian) toponyms , Corieltauvi means The head of a hawk. Coritani means -The body of a hawk. and there are lots of such toponyms and me as Kartvelian (Georgian )can understand

  • @jonhopp
    @jonhopp Жыл бұрын

    Some hypothesized they spoke a separate language from both Celtic and Germanic. Caesar mentions the Aquitani, Gauls, and Belgae, differed in this aspect. We know the Aquitani spoke a proto-Basque kind of Lnaguage, and the Gauls spoke Gaulish, a form of Celtic. Perhaps this indicates that the Belgae spoke a separate language from both. Though of course it could just mean they spoke a rather divergent form of Celtic but related to Gaulish. But some who've studied remnants of the Ancient Belgic language (mainly in toponyms) see similarities with Italic languages, and hypothesize that the Belgae (or at least some tribes) spoke an Italic or Italic-related language rather than Celtic.

  • @dlareggerald
    @dlareggerald Жыл бұрын

    Belgians are from Keltic Origins (Belgae means literally ( Bottled up Anger) Not Gaulois like the French ; The Nervii slaughtert the most and Best Centurions of Julius Ceasar at the river Sabis that why they are called the bravest of all also because they contantly had to fight against the German tribes and succeeded again and again to hold their territories, the Nervii never trade with the romans luxury product because these products : wine and others would make them Weak ,they also never made use of Horses and they made their landscape full of bushes and hedges as so cavalery would never have a advantage against them .Their king was Boduognat and had a statue in Antwerp but THEY removed it nobody knows WHY ;Ambiorix also fought a rebellious war against the romans winning some important battles against the legions But then disappeared to never be captured by the Romans fleeing into a house in the woods contantly harrassed by roman soldiers fleeing over the river Maas and Rhine into german tribe territory To help the Germans using the same tactic of false pretexts against the Romans his Statue still remains in Tongeren

  • @geoffbenoy2052

    @geoffbenoy2052

    Жыл бұрын

    The Tongrii were a Germanic tribe that fought for the Romans and did get that piece of land as a trophy. Ambiorix and his people managed to escape to England

  • @theromanshogunate5716
    @theromanshogunate57162 жыл бұрын

    Didn't these guys colonise a part of Britain

  • @saladspinner3200

    @saladspinner3200

    4 ай бұрын

    Any many many centuries later, they went on to colonize a part of Scotland as well.

  • @supermariosionduggan7545
    @supermariosionduggan75452 жыл бұрын

    vercingetorix my great great great great great grandfather from flemish people went stay in west wales called new town date 1600 or 1699 my great grandmother she from west wales flemish Irish cornwall england scotland people

  • @geoffbenoy2052

    @geoffbenoy2052

    Жыл бұрын

    Vercingetorix surrendered in order to save his people. Later he was executed in Rome

  • @ilovechrist9780
    @ilovechrist9780 Жыл бұрын

    For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. - John 3:16 from the Bible 💕💕❤💕

  • @irgendwer3610
    @irgendwer36104 жыл бұрын

    celtic belgae and french/flemish belgium don't have much to do with eachother

  • @ApunkDaydreamLamunanOi

    @ApunkDaydreamLamunanOi

    3 жыл бұрын

    Een NVA`er misschien? Toen ik door het Verenigd Koninkrijk reisde viel het me op hoe Belgisch sommige dorpen zijn, voortuintje, achtertuintje. Een Limburger verschilt meer van een West Vlaming dan een Luikenaar van een Hasseltenaar als je het mij vraagt. Identiteit valt niet in een doos te steken, enkel dictators hopen dat te doen.

  • @bpinkhof

    @bpinkhof

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@ApunkDaydreamLamunanOi De Belgische kelten die in Frans-Vlaanden en West-Vlaanderen en een beetje lager zijn belangrijk in de geschiedenis van de Britse Kelten. Antwerpenaren en Limburgers niet. En de Walen ook niet. In de prehistorie was er een landbrug tussen de Vlaamse en Frans-Vlaamse kust en kwamen na de Neatherlalers de eerste pre kelten in the Uk binnengelopen omdat ze op rendieren jaagden. Soms kwamen ze ook terug via deze landbrug. Daarna begon het ijs te smelten van een latere koudere ijstijd en ontstond het kanaal. Er kwamen in 4 golven nog Belgische kelten binnen in the UK. Voorlan van de zeekunst van Vlaanderen en Frans-Vlaanderen een een beetje lager. Ze zeilden bijvoorbeeld naar the Isle of White en verstigden zich daar, bouwden de eerste steden ten noorden van dat eiland en stichten Winchester en vele andere dorpjes en steden. In totaal waren 7 Britse Keltische stammen van Belgisch keltische oorsprong. Zeker van de Atrebati, Morini en nog wat kelten van andere Belgisch keltische stammen. In Oud-België sprak men een P keltische taal zoals south-Brythonnic. In oud Gallië Q keltisch. Er kwamen in 1066 bij de slag van Hastings nog veel Vlamingen binnen. In Little Engeland beyond the sea leefden veel van de gewonnen Vlamingen, ook in Schotland en nog andere locaties. Normandiers en Vlaamse boogschutters met een enorme legermacht wonnen de slag van Hastings en veranderden Engeland drastisch. In the Uk kan men veel DNA vinden van Belgische pre kelten, latere oud-Belgen en Vlamingen. Pre Kelten in oud-Belgica en latere oud-Belgen behoren samen met nog drie andere groepen van stammen tot de oudste inwoners van West-Europa. De Basken zijn dat ook. In prehistorisch België leefden mammoeten.

  • @QuintFever

    @QuintFever

    2 жыл бұрын

    you are so wrong.. they have everything to do with eachother. The reason why there is the language border between flemish and french belgium is because it was to where the gaul/ germanic tribes retreated to the south fleeing from the huns (thats why flemish now is a germanic language) and french (a romanic language) we are all the same belgians, only the language border is where the old western roman empire came to halt after the tribes fled south. And i know my english isn't perfect but this comes from a flemish belgian guy who studied latin and history and learnt a lot about our own culture.

  • @Bellg

    @Bellg

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@ApunkDaydreamLamunanOi Een voortuin en achtertuin typisch Belgisch? lol hou eens op man, wat is dat nu voor een conclusie. En wat dat met de NVA te maken heeft is me al helemaal een raadsel. Wat hij zegt klopt gewoon, het "Keltische" "belgie" en het huidige België zijn radicaal verschillende entiteiten op elk vlak. Cultureel, linguïstisch, genetisch etc...

  • @ApunkDaydreamLamunanOi

    @ApunkDaydreamLamunanOi

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Bellg Ik zei niet dat een voortuin typisch Belgisch is. Wel dat de Belgae stammen van de Rijn tot in Britanië leefden, en dat dit af te lezen valt in culturele elementen, zoals een voortuin. Identiteit zet zich ook vast in fysische symbolen. Architectuur kan men zien als een antropologisch gegeven om de psychologie en transities van een identiteit af te lezen. Als je culturele elementen naast landsgrenzen legt ziet men dat identiteit een voortdurende dynamiek kent en moeilijk af te tekenen valt. Uiteraard hopen sommige politiekers dat te doen, ideologie is daar op zijn plek. Een avontuurlijk nationalistisch verhaal, prikkelt dan de verbeelding van samenhorigheid maar in realiteit ook verdeling. Een land als Indonesië kent 700 talen en al even veel ethnische verschillen, en ze zien zich allen als Indonesiër. Dan lijkt het verhaal van BDW toch even doorstoken kaart niet? België opsplitsen is een gemiste kans. Het zal het machtspel niet verminderen. Enkel een bewijs van de politiek die er gespeeld wordt. De taalgrenzen afschaffen, en één parlement invoeren, dat zou pas een effort naar vooruitgang zijn. Een visie waarin de kwaliteiten van Noord en Zuid in transitie kunnen gaan. Een lijn van verdeling valt altijd te trekken. Antwerpenaren zijn geen eens echte Vlamingen, ze vochten mee met de Leliaards, Vlaanderen loopt tot in Nederland en laat Hasselt maar een stadstaat zijn, ik heb niets gemeen met Limburgers. Mijn punt is, je maakt zelf je verhaal over identiteit en je filtert de elementen die opportuun zijn voor je verhaal. Dat is identiteit... En over genetische verschillen spreken is irrelevant in de wereld van vandaag.