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BELGICA GALLIA

Volume 3 · 113 words · 1810 Edition

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 everywhere 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 gentilisious name is Belgæ, called by Caesar the bravest of the Gauls, because untainted by the importation of luxuries. The epithet is Belgicus (Virgil).

BELGARDEN, a town of Germany, in East Pomerania, in the province of Caffubia, and subject to Prussia. E. Long. 16° 5'. N. Lat. 54° 10'.