Belgica
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As Anglo-Dutch tensions increased in 1611 the Dutch built the larger and more strategic Fort Belgica above Fort Nassau.
Especially the southern part of current Limburg, along the Via Belgica was thoroughly Romanized and a few still existing towns and cities were founded in this period, including Mosa Trajectum (Maastricht) and Coriovallum (Heerlen).
Gallia Belgica originally included six regional capitals, four of which are today in France, Nemetacum ( Arras ), Divodurum ( Metz ), Bagacum ( Bavay ), and Durocorturum ( Reims ).
French was also influenced by native Celtic languages of Northern Roman Gaul like Gallia Belgica and by the ( Germanic ) Frankish language of the post-Roman Frankish invaders.
In 451, he arrived in Belgica with an army exaggerated by Jordanes to half a million strong.
Gallia Belgica, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, pp. 12–14.