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Gallia Belgica ("Belgic Gaul") was a province of the Roman Empire located in the north-eastern part of Roman Gaul, in what is today primarily northern France, Belgium, and Luxembourg, along with parts of the Netherlands and Germany.
This is a list of Roman governors of Gallia Belgica. Capital and largest city of Gallia Belgica was Durocortum, modern-day Reims. Governors during the Principate
At its height in Roman times the city had a population in the range of 30,000 – 50,000 or perhaps up to 100,000, [2] and was an important node in the road system of Gallia Belgica. After the installation of Magnus Maximus in Augusta Treverorum , Durocortorum was renamed Metropolis Civitas Remorum , and no longer served as the capital of ...
Gaul (Latin: Gallia) [1] was a region of Western Europe first clearly described by the Romans, encompassing present-day France, Belgium, Luxembourg, and parts of Switzerland, the Netherlands, Germany, and Northern Italy.
The Romans intervened in southern Gaul in 125 BC, and conquered the area eventually known as Gallia Narbonensis by 121 BC. Map of Gaul c.58 BC according to the Romans, showing Gallia Celtica, Gallia Belgica, Gallia Narbonensis and Gallia Cisalpina (the latter two were part of the Empire).
Augustus creates the province Gallia Belgica. [1]: 48 ca. 15 BC: Probable origins of the city of Tongeren. [1]: 49 12 BC: Augusta Treverorum becomes a city. [1]: 49 Nero Claudius Drusus, commander in chief of Roman forces in Gallia Belgica, has a series of canals dug in the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta. [1]: 49 ca. 10 BC
Latin Gallia can also refer in this period to greater Gaul independent of Roman control, covering the remainder of France, Belgium, and parts of the Netherlands and Switzerland, often distinguished as Gallia Comata [3] and including regions also known as Celtica (Κελτική in Strabo and other Greek sources), Aquitania, Belgica, and Armorica .
Into the 7th century, Gallo-Roman culture would persist particularly in the areas of Gallia Narbonensis that developed into Occitania, Cisalpine Gaul, Orléanais, and to a lesser degree, Gallia Aquitania. The formerly-Romanized northern Gaul, once it had been occupied by the Franks, would develop into Merovingian culture instead.