Quote Originally Posted by Oh! TheLastDays! View Post
This is really an interesting thread. I don't know enough about the Belgians to add a lot to the discussion, just, it's possible that, if there is a belgic faction, it will be displayed as a conglomerate of belgic tribes. We have seen it exemplified in the Pritanoi-Preview. In their case the EB team discarded the tribal names that were given by Caesar and later writers, because there was no evidence these tribes existed in the third century BC, let alone using the same names Caesar accounted for, almost two hundred years later. I don't know if such evidence exists in the case of the beglic tribes but we can be sure that's something the team will look into, if they are going to do a belgic faction.
In the case of the Bellovaci, Atrebates etc. the archaeological record appears to show continuty in the area from the 3rd century BC until the 1st century AD, suggesting that these tribal groupings were in existence in 272BC.