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Belgae

Julius Caesar records that people from Belgic Gaul (probably from an area to the south of present day Belgium) raided the coasts of southeast Britain, eventually settling around Winchester, called Venta Belgarum by the Romans (which translates as "the market of the Belgae tribe").The Belgae brought a higher standard of living to the British aristocracy, and their influence led to the development of very advanced settlements. Belgic patronage encouraged smiths and potters to greater achievements, many of the finest pieces of art from Iron age Celtic Britain are the result.The arrival of the Belgae resulted in a great flowering of Celtic culture and opened trade links and contacts with Rome that eventually played no small part in the Roman conquest and of the transformation of Celtic England and Wales into Roman Britannia.

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