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I forgot about the Batavi! From what I've read there isn't any consensus on the Belgae whether they were 100% Celtic or Celtic majority and some Germanic migration. I'd like to think there were Celts, maybe culturally influenced a bit by the nearby Germanic tribes. The name Belgae is speculated to come from an old Celtic word Bolgi mean "to Swell" assumed to mean to swell with anger.It varies according to interpretations of archeology, of toponymy and of tribes names. The proto-Celtic influence could have reached the Rhine mouth (in far South of the Netherlands) or even further in North near today Amsterdam.
But the Batavi, known by Romans were living before Frisii at the Rhine mouth and was/are seen as Germanics. Belgia was peopled by diverse tribes, but their statute is not clear. Someones were Celts, others maybe Germanics, and other are supposed having spoken IE dialects considered as between Celtic and Italic spite rather Italic-like or pan-Italic.
Genetically the precedent stage was surely a post-nothern-BB one with CWC input rising as the more northwards man goes, I think. Some of the old scholars thought the most of Belgae tribes (Belgia) were come from Bavaria/western Bohemia, so not from genuine Gaul/Gallia. I don't know what is said todate.
We have to keep in mind that Belgium and the Netherlands of the BC times had a lot of their shores drown under the sea, so they were smaller than todate. And at the opposite side, Belgae tribes occuped large parts of today northern and eastern France, until the Seine/Sequanna river.
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