* Belgica Mountains in Antarctica were named after the first research vessel

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Fort Belgica, one of many forts built by the Dutch East India Company, is one of the largest remaining European forts in Indonesia.

He is succeeded by his 15-year-old son Clovis who becomes ruler of the Salian Franks in the province Gallia Belgica ( modern Belgium ) until his death in 511.

Caesar ’ s attention is momentarily diverted to Gallia Belgica as Indutiomarus and Cingetorix struggle for power over the Treveri.

34. 6 m tall and 4. 4 m in girth, this Ulmus × hollandica ' Belgica ' in Oudemanhuispoort, Amsterdam, planted in 1895, is the largest elm in the Netherlands.

There is archaeological evidence of destruction by raiders between 170 – 200, ranging along the Continental coast down to the Bay of Biscay, to northwest Belgica ( e. g., fire destruction at Amiens, Thérouanne, Vendeuil-Caply, Beauvais, Bavai, Tournai and Arras ), to coastal Britain ( e. g., fire destruction at the eastern Essex sites of Chelmsford, Billericay, Gestingthorpe, Braintree, Wickford, Kelvedon, Great Chesterford and Harlow ).

In two inscriptions both from Gallia Belgica, Rosmerta is given the epithet sacra, sacred.

Van Meteren is also the author of Historia Belgica.

Gallia Belgica ( sometimes given as Belgica Prima ) was a Roman province located in what is now the southern part of the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, northeastern France, and western Germany.

Although the name " Belgica " is now reserved for Belgium, before the division of the Low Countries into a southern and a northern half in the 16th century, the name referred to the entire Low Countries.

Belgica was and is the name of two Belgian research vessels, with a name derived ultimately from the Latin Gallia Belgica.

Pliny the Elder is the first writer to mention the Tungri in Gallia Belgica, in his Natural History.

Caesar is not explicit in De Bello Gallico about whether the Treveri are to be considered to belong to Gallia Celtica or Gallia Belgica, although the former hypothesis enjoys some favour.

Gerlache Strait or De Gerlache Strait or Détroit de la Belgica is a channel / strait separating the Palmer Archipelago from the Antarctic Peninsula.

The chain was discovered by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition ( 1957-58 ) under Gaston de Gerlache, and named after the ship Belgica, commanded by his father, Lt. Adrien de Gerlache, leader of the Belgian Antarctic Expedition of 1897-99.

By January 1899 the Belgica was still trapped in ice about 7 feet ( 2. 1m ) thick and the possibility of another winter in the ice was becoming real.

Open water was about half a mile away and Cook suggested that trenches should be cut to the open water to allow the Belgica to escape the ice.

They were raiding the coasts of Roman Belgica in AD 41, long before they participated in further raids of the same coasts under Gannascus in AD 47.

Sailing in between the Graham Land coast and a long string of islands to the west, de Gerlache named the passage Belgica Strait.

Sailing in between the Graham Land coast and a long string of islands to the west, de Gerlache named the passage Belgica Strait.

During January 1898, the Belgica reached the coast of Graham Land.

During January 1898, the Belgica reached the coast of Graham Land.

The Belgica, whether by mistake or design, became locked in the sea ice at 70 ° 30 ′ S off Alexander Island, west of the Antarctic Peninsula.

* Nansen ( cat ), ship's cat on Belgica during the Belgian Antarctic Expedition in 1897-98

Through The First Antarctic Night 1898 – 1899: A Narrative Of The Voyage Of The " Belgica " Among Newly Discovered Lands And Over An Unknown Sea About The South Pole.

* Decleir, H., de Broyer, C. ( eds ), The Belgica expedition centennial: perspectives on Antarctic science and history ( Brussels 2001 )

The " Belgica " was trapped in the pack ice of the Antarctic for 13 months and became the first vessel to winter in the Antarctic.

** Belgian Antarctic Expedition, an expedition named after the first Belgica

Danco Island was surveyed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey from the Norsel in 1955, and named by the UK Antarctic Place-names Committee for Emile Danco ( 1869 – 1898 ), a Belgian geophysicist and member of the Belgian Antarctic Expedition, who died on board the Belgica in the Antarctic.

The Belgian Antarctic Expedition, under Lt. Adrien de Gerlache, explored the strait in January and February 1898, naming it for the expedition ship Belgica.

As Dutch-British tensions increased in 1611 the Dutch built the larger and more strategic Fort Belgica above Fort Nassau.

They quickly stormed the island and attacked Belgica Castle at sunrise.

By the first century BC Germanic languages had become prevalent, and the inhabitants were called Belgæ while the area was the coastal district of Gallia Belgica, the most northeastern province of the Roman Empire at its height.

At the end of 357 Julian, with the prestige of his victory over the Alamanni to give him confidence, prevented a tax increase by the Gallic praetorian prefect Florentius and personally took charge of the province of Belgica Secunda.

This expedition, led by Adrien de Gerlache using the ship the Belgica, became the first expedition to winter in Antarctica.

* Roald Amundsen's Belgica Diary.

In the 1st century BC, the Roman Empire made the region part of its province of Belgica.

The city later became the capital of the Roman province of Gallia Belgica, as well as the Roman prefecture of Gaul.

In Roman times, Turicum was a tax-collecting point at the border of Gallia Belgica ( from AD 90 Germania superior ) and Raetia for goods trafficked on the Limmat river.

* April 12 – Catharina Belgica of Nassau, regent of Hanau-Münzenberg ( b. 1578 )

* In Gallia Belgica cohors II Tungrorum, raised from the inhabitants of Atuatuca Tungrorum in the north-west of the Ardennes Forest revolt against the Romans.

He arrives in Belgica with an army ( 50, 000 men ) and crosses the Rhine.

Roman ethnography divides Gaul into five parts, Gallia Cisalpina, Gallia Narbonensis, Gallia Aquitania, Gallia Celtica ( largely corresponding to the later province Gallia Lugdunensis ) and Gallia Belgica.

* July 31 – Catharina Belgica of Nassau, regent of Hanau-Münzenberg ( d. 1648 )

The Roman province Gallia Belgica in around 120 CE.

Historically, after the Roman denomination of it as Gallia Belgica, the region politically had its origins in Middle Francia, more precisely its northern part which became the Duchy of Lower Lotharingia.

The low countries were part of the Roman provinces of Belgica, Germania Inferior and Germania Superior.

Following their raids into neighbouring Gallia Belgica by king Gunther.

* Flavius Aetius suppresses the Bagaudae in Armorica ( Gaul ) and defeats the Salian Franks under king Chlodio near Arras ( Belgica Secunda ); the invaders are stopped around a river-crossing near Vicus Helena.

In 1833, Van Genechten N. V., Splichal N. V. in 1856, Mesmaekers Freres in 1859, Meses-Goris in 1872, L. Biermans in 1875, Poupaert in 1881, La Belgica N. V. in 1907, H. Proost & Co in 1913, J.