Sixty years ago most archaeologists believed that brochs, usually regarded as castles, were built by immigrants who had been displaced and pushed northward, first by the intrusions of Belgic tribes into what is now south-east England towards the end of the second century BC and later by the Roman invasion of southern Britain from AD 43 onwards.

This event is probably part of the Belgic invasion of Britain in the early part of the 1st century BC.

Tincomarus ( a dithematic name form typical of insular and continental Celtic onomastics, analysable as tinco -, perhaps a sort of fish Latin tinca, English tench + maro -, " big ") was a king of the Iron Age Belgic tribe of the Atrebates who lived in southern central Britain shortly before the Roman invasion.

After his defeat of the Belgic Atrebates on the Continent, Julius Caesar had employed their king Commius in his unsuccessful invasion of Britain in 55 BC.

Second, Caesar uses the term Germani, for a very specific tribal grouping in northeastern Belgic Gaul, west of the Rhine, the largest part of which were the Eburones, making clear that he was using the name in the local way.

The Belgic Confession of 1561, a Dutch confession of faith, was partly based on the Gallic Confession.

According to the testimony of Julius Caesar, the Gaulish language proper was distinct from the Aquitanian language and the Belgic language.

In 286 AD, Carausius, a Roman military commander of Gaulish origins, was appointed to command the Classis Britannica, and given the responsibility of eliminating Frankish and Saxon pirates who had been raiding the coasts of Armorica and Belgic Gaul.

Arras was founded on the hill of Baudimont by the Belgic tribe of the Atrebates, who named it Nemetacum or Nemetocenna in reference to a nemeton ( sacred grove ) that probably existed there.

He was a Menapian from Belgic Gaul, who usurped power in 286, declaring himself emperor in Britain and northern Gaul.

For example, Solsbury Hill was sacked and deserted during the Belgic invasions of southern Britain in the 1st century BC.

The post-Renaissance Latin rendering is Bellovacum from the Belgic tribe the Bellovaci, whose capital it was.

In the Netherlands, the Catechism was approved by the Synods of Wesel ( 1568 ), Emden ( 1571 ), Dort ( 1578 ), the Hague ( 1586 ), as well as the great Synod of Dort of 1618-1619, which adopted it as one of the Three Forms of Unity, together with the Belgic Confession and the Canons of Dort.

The hill of Cassel was occupied during the late Iron Age by the Menapii, a Belgic tribe, who made it the capital of a large territory extending from modern Calais to as far as the Rhine.

Arminius advocated revising the Belgic Confession and the Heidelberg Catechism, but was not explicit, until much later when the debate became an open conflict.

The Battle of the Sabis, also ( erroneously ) known as the Battle of the Sambre or the Battle against the Nervians ( or Nervii ), was fought in 57 BC in the area known today as Wallonia, between the legions of the Roman Republic and an association of Belgic tribes, principally the Nervii ( a Belgian tribe ).

When no battle was forthcoming the Belgic alliance broke up, determining to gather to defend whichever tribe Caesar attacked.

In the century before the Romans arrived in Britain, the area now covered by West Sussex was ruled by the Atrebates, a Belgic tribe led by Commius.

It has also been argued based on placename studies that the older language of the area, though apparently Indo-European, was not Celtic ( see Nordwestblock ) and that Celtic, though influential amongst the elite, might never have been the main language of the part of the Belgic area north of the Ardennes.

Surviving inscriptions also indicate that Gaulish was spoken in at least part of Belgic territory.

The Belgic warriors set traps in the woods for Roman foragers, and maintained an immensely advantageous position to the point that Caesar was forced to call for reinforcements of three legions from Trebonius.

The Eburones ( Greek:, Strabo ), were a Belgic people who lived in the northeast of Gaul, near the river Meuse and the modern provinces of Belgian and Dutch Limburg, in the period immediately before it was conquered by Rome.

This was thwarted by timely intervention of Caesar, and the Belgic allies dispersed, Caesar " fearing to pursue them very far, because woods and morasses intervened, and also he saw that they suffered no small loss in abandoning their position ".

Shepherd's followers claim that the Covenant of Works between Adam and God in the Garden of Eden was not originally part of covenant theology, following John Murray's observation that a covenant of works at creation does not receive explicit mention in early confessions such as the French Confession ( 1559 ), the Scots Confession ( 1560 ), the Belgic Confession ( 1561 ), the Thirty-Nine Articles ( 1562 ), the Heidelberg Catechism ( 1563 ), and the Second Helvetic Confession ( 1566 ).

Unconditional election is drawn from the doctrines of salvation adopted by Augustine of Hippo, was first codified in the Belgic Confession ( 1561 ), re-affirmed in the Canons of Dort ( 1619 ), which arose from the Quinquarticular Controversy, and is represented in the various Reformed confessions such as the Westminster Standards ( 1646 ).

Other signs of early human activities include a collection of axes and pottery shards from the Bronze Age and more pottery from the Sturry Hill gravel-pits, and a burial-ground near Stonerocks Farm showed that there was an Iron Age settlement of Belgic Celts ( who gave Canterbury its pre-Roman name of Durovemum ) from the end of the 2nd Century BC.

The nineteenth-century theory that the Sambre was the location of Julius Caesar's battle against a Belgic confederation ( 57 BC ), has been discarded long time ago, but is still repeated.

Pottery studies indicate the county east of the River Medway was inhabited by Belgic peoples who were part of an economic and cultural region embracing south east England and the lands across the English Channel.

Until enough crossings were established, the river presented a formidable barrier, with Belgic tribes and Anglo-Saxon kingdoms being defined by which side of the river they were on.

In early 451, Attila crossed the Rhine and entered the Belgic provinces, capturing Divodurum Mediomatricum on April 7, 451.

This developed into a skirmish with the few troops of Belgic cavalry that had been observed on the far side.

Now they seized the Belgic camp on the wooded hill.

Ptolemy's 2nd century Geography refers to the " Atribati " living on the coast of Belgic Gaul, near the river Sequana ( Seine ), and names Metacum as a town of theirs.

In other directions, their neighbours in Roman times were the Belgic Nervii on the west and the Remi and Treveri to the south, all tribes who had been in those regions since before Caesar's campaign.

They were bordered on the north, west and south by Belgic tribes friendly to Rome: the Tungri, the Remi and the Mediomatrici, respectively.

Apparently, Acarius had great influence on the spreading of Christianity in Belgic Gaul.

It was inhabited in that time by the Eburones, a Belgic tribe based on north-eastern Gaul in the 1st century BC.

The site is marked as a " Belgic Oppidum " on Ordnance Survey maps.

The Belgic Confession, used in Reformed churches, devotes a section ( Article 6 ) to " The difference between the canonical and apocryphal books " and asserts that " All which the Church may read and take instruction from, so far as they agree with the canonical books ; but they are far from having such power and efficacy as that we may from their testimony confirm any point of faith or of the Christian religion ; much less to detract from the authority of the other sacred books.

The WSC Board of Trustees and Faculty pledge their commitment to those full historic statements which have been the doctrinal bond of fellowship for churches of Reformed persuasion for more than three centuries: The Westminster Confession of Faith, the Westminster Larger Catechism, the Westminster Shorter Catechism, Heidelberg Catechism, Belgic Confession of Faith, and the Canons of Dort.

A settlement from the early Iron Age has been found in the parish, covering around 20 acres a half mile north-west of the church, and was occupied through the Belgic and Roman periods.

The parish has been occupied for at least 2000 years ; in the first century A. D. a Belgic settlement appeared, closely followed by a Romano-British farmstead near Hoffer bridge.