BELGÆ (anc. geog.), a people of Britain, to the west: Now Hampshire, Wilthshire, and Somersetshire, (Camden).

BELGICA, a town of the Ubii in Gallia Belgica, midway between the rivers Rhine and Roer: Now called Balchusen (Cluverius); a citadel of Juliers (Bassrand).

Belgica Galia, one of Caesar's three divisions of Gaul, contained between the ocean to the north, the rivers Seine and Marne to the west, the Rhine to the east, but on the south at different times within different limits. Augustus, instituting every where a new partition of provinces, added the Sequani and Helvetii, who till then made a part of Celtic Gaul, to the Belgic (Pliny, Ptolemy). The gentilissimus name is Belgæ, called by Caesar the bravest of the Gauls, because maintained by the importation of luxuries. The epithet is Belgicus (Virgil).