Bellovaci

The Bellovaci (Latin: Bellovaci ) was a Belgian tribe in northern Gaul, who lived in the entire Oise in France today.

The Bellovaci are first mentioned in writing by the Roman general and author Julius Caesar in De Bello Gallico, his account of his wars in Gaul. He reported that they withdrew 57 BC before his approaching troops in their city Bratuspantium. The location of this town has not yet been clearly established. Some historians suggest that it could be due to the etymology to Grattepanche the Somme countryside. 51 BC led the chief Correus together with the Atrebates King Commius one last Gallic revolt against Caesar, but it eventually fell.

After their defeat by Caesar Caesaromagus was, today Beauvais, the capital of the Bellovaci. The name comes from the Latin name Beauvais Bellovacensis pagus. The altehergekommene assumption that Caesaromagus be equated with the Bratuspantium mentioned by Caesar can not confirm modern archeology, as in Beauvais no archaeological traces of a pre-Roman fortification or settlement have been found.

The settlement area of ​​the ' Belovaker ' was after their subjugation by Rome a part of the designated Gaul region of the Roman Empire, with the provincial reform of the Roman emperor Augustus the Bellovaci were integrated into the province of Gallia Belgica.