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    The Bellovaci (Gaulish: Bellouacoi) were a Belgic tribe dwelling in the modern Picardy region, near the present-day city of Beauvais, during the Iron Age and the Roman period. After they were defeated by Caesar in 57 BC, they gave lukewarm support to the Gallic revolt led by Vercingetorix in 52 BC. The … See more

    They are mentioned as Bellovacos and Bellovaci by Caesar (mid-1st c. BC), Belloákoi (Βελλοάκοι) by Strabo (early 1st c. AD), Bellovaci by Pliny (1st c. AD), and as Belloúakoi … See more

    Their territory straddled the route from the Seine to the Somme valleys. They were clients of the Aedui in central Gaul by the first century BC. … See more

    The territory of the Bellovaci was located in the Thérain valley, south of the Ambiani. They dominated on wooded heights, which constituted a natural frontier with the Veliocasses See more

    Roman conquest
    This campaign occurred in the Compiègne Forest, in an area that had been occupied by the Suessiones. The Bellovaci intended to conquer this territory, a situation that Julius Caesar feared would expand into a greater threat and … See more

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    The Bellovaci ( Gaulish: Bellouacoi) were a Belgic tribe dwelling in the modern Picardy region, near the present-day city of Beauvais, during the Iron Age and the Roman period. After they were defeated by Caesar in 57 BC, they gave lukewarm support to the Gallic revolt led by Vercingetorix in 52 BC.
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    The post-Renaissance Latin rendering is Bellovacum from the Belgic tribe the Bellovaci, whose capital it was. In the ninth century, it became a county (comté), which about 1013 passed to the bishops of Beauvais, who became peers of France from the twelfth century.
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    A map of Gaul in the 1st century BC, showing the relative position of the Bellovaci tribe. The Bellovaci ( Gaulish: Bellouacoi) were a Belgic tribe dwelling in the modern Picardy region, near the present-day city of Beauvais, during the Iron Age and the Roman period.
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    The Bellovaci name is sometimes broken down as 'bell', meaning 'mouth', but this is inaccurate. 'Bell' means 'war' or 'fight' (it is more frequently seen as 'vel' in Celtic names). The second part, 'vac', is indeed 'empty' in Celtic but in this case the real word is more likely to be 'vacto' ('waxto'), rather than 'vac'.
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