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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera
In the 1st century BC, the Romans defeated the local tribes and created the province of Gallia Belgica...
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Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres, quarum unam incolunt Belgae, aliam Aquitani, tertiam qui ipsorum lingua Celtae, nostra Galli appellantur. Hi omnes lingua, institutis, legibus inter se differunt. Gallos ab Aquitanis Garunna flumen, a Belgis Matrona et Sequana dividit. Horum omnium fortissimi sunt Belgae, propterea quod a cultu atque humanitate provinciae longissime absunt, minimeque ad eos mercatores saepe commeant atque ea quae ad effeminandos animos pertinent important, proximique sunt Germanis, qui trans Rhenum incolunt, quibuscum continenter bellum gerunt. Qua de causa Helvetii quoque reliquos Gallos virtute praecedunt, quod fere cotidianis proeliis cum Germanis contendunt, cum aut suis finibus eos prohibent aut ipsi in eorum finibus bellum gerunt.
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this is from "De Bello Gallico" where Julius Ceasar tells about the conquest of what later would become Belgium, France ans Switzerland...
Three peoples lived here, Belgea, Aquitani and the Celtae...
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Horum omnium fortissimi sunt Belgae
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means the Belgae were the bravest of those people...
This was of course a long time ago... and it has nothing to do with our traffic jams...