Gaulle Belgium

See also: Belgium (homonymy)

The Roman Province of Gallia Belgica of the beginning of the imperial period practically corresponded to the whole of the cities of the old Belgian federation, i.e. the territories located between the the Rhine and the the Seine, to which César gave the name of Belgium . At the beginning, the capital of the province was Rheims then, to an unspecified date (but probably not before the end of the Bas-Empire), the capital was transferred to Trier.

At the time of Auguste, the province of Belgium included/understood the following cities:

  • Ciuitas Remorum , capital: Durocortorum (Rheims)

  • Ciuitas Siluanectum , capital: Augustomagus (Senlis)
  • Ciuitas Suessionum , capital: Augusta Suessionum (Soissons)
  • Ciuitas Bellouacorum , capital: Caesaromagus (Beauvais)
  • Ciuitas Ambianorum , capital: Samarobriua (Amiens)
  • Ciuitas Viromanduorum , capital: Augusta Viromanduorum (Saint-Quentin)
  • Ciuitas Atrebatium , capital: Nemetacum (Arras)
  • Ciuitas Neruiorum , capital: Bagacum (Bavay)
  • Ciuitas Leucorum , capital: Tullum (Toul)
  • Ciuitas Treuerorum , capital: Augusta Treuerorum (Trier)
  • Ciuitas Mediomatricorum , capital: Diuodurum (Metz)

On the ground, the borders of the Belgian province, as well with the Lyons Gaulle as with the Germanic, are fuzzy at the beginning of the imperial period. It seems that the cities of the Tongres, of the Lingons, the Séquanes and the Helvètes belonged to the province de Gaulle Belgium at the beginning of the imperial period. The first event which comes somewhat to clarify these limits, even if it changes them consequently occasion, is creation by the emperor Domitien initially of two districts, then of two provinces of Germanic: the lower Germanic and the higher Germanic. This operation ranges between 82 and 90 a. J. - C. The creation of these provinces is concretized by the final loss of Lingons, Séquanes, Tongres and Helvètes. The other great territorial reform which touched Belgium dates, as for the remainder of the Empire, 297. The territorial reorganization wanted by Dioclétien has as a consequence division into two of the province, the two new provinces taking the names of Belgium First and Belgium Second (Belgica Prima and Belgica Secunda). We know exactly the composition of these provinces thanks to the Notitia dignitatum, inventory of the administration of the Bas-Empire.

Belgium First included/understood:

  • Ciuitas Treuerorum

  • Ciuitas Leucorum
  • Ciuitas Mediomatricorum
  • Ciuitas Verodunensium , new city of first half of IVe century, by dismemberment of the Ciuitas Mediomatricorum ; chief town: Verdunum - Verdun.

Belgium Second included/understood:

  • Ciuitas Remorum

  • Ciuitas Suessionum
  • Ciuitas Veromanduorum - new chief town: Vermand
  • Ciuitas Atrebatium
  • Ciuitas Silvanectum
  • Ciuitas Bellovacorum
  • Ciuitas Ambianensium (or Ambianorum )
  • Civitas Morinorum
  • Ciuitas Camaracensium , old C. Nerviorum , with for new chief town: Camaracum - Cambric
  • Ciuitas Catalaunorum , separated from the ciuitas Remorum ; chief town: Catalaunum - Châlons-in-Champagne.
  • Ciuitas Bononensium , separated from the ciuitas Morinorum ; chief town: Bononia - Boulogne-sur-Mer.

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