Bellovesus

Bellovesus is a form of the Gallic legend. He should be invaded by 600 or 400 BC, with his people in northern Italy.

Migrations of Bituriges

The Bellovesus saga is narrated by the Roman historian Livy, Ab urbe condita in his work libri CXLII. According to him, Bellovesus to have been the son of the sister of the king Ambicatus. His family belonged to the tribe of Bituriges who were the most powerful Gallic tribe at that time and therefore each the king of all Gaul presented. During this time the population of Gaul grown so much that it became necessary to open up new areas of settlement. Bellovesus and his brother Segovesus were entrusted with this task. While Segovesus of the gods got a sign to look for in Herkynischen forest for new fields, Bellovesus was to northern Italy passed into the later province of Cisalpine Gaul.

Bellovesus allegedly took the surplus population of six strains with the train over the Alps: Bituriges, Arverni, senones Aedui, Ambarrer, Karnuten and Aulerker. The Alps as introduced in the train but first an insurmountable hurdle dar. Only after Bellovesus, had assisted in the founding of Massilia (Marseille ) some Greeks who had landed in the field of Salluvier and was followed a divine hint, succeeded in crossing the Alps through a pass in the field of Taurini. In Italy arrived, the Gauls defeated the Etruscans at the Ticino river and settled in an area that was called Insubria. Here Bellovesus founded the city of Mediolanum, now Milan.