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Bellovesus was a shape galli of the legend. He lived around 600 BCE and is remembered for invading northern Italy with his people during the reign of Tarquinius Priscus. The historical writer Livius according to it is to have been the son of the sister of the king Ambigatus. Its family belonged to the tribe of Bituriges, which were at this time the most powerful Gaulic tribe and in each case placed therefore the king of all Gaul. In this time the Gaulish people were suffering from overpopulation, so that it became necessary to open new settlement areas. Bellovesus and his brother Segovesus were entrusted with this task. While Segovesus of the Gods, that is, by lot, got an indication to look in Hyrcinian Forest for new areas Bellovesus was led to upper Italy. Bellovesus led allegedly a population of six surplus tribes forward on the course over the alps: Bituriges, Arverner, Senonen, Haeduer, Ambarrer, Karnutes and Aulerci ^[1]. The alps represented an insurmountable hurdle for the course however first. Only after Bellovesus received support from the Greeks, who in the area of the Salyer had landed and established the port-city of Massilia (Marseille) in c. 600 BCE, did Bellovesus follow a divine sign and succeed in the crossing of the alps through a pass in the area of Tauriner. Having arrived in Italy, the Gauls defeated the Etruskans at the river Tessin and settled in an area, which was called Insubrian . Here Bellovesus created the city Mediolanum, today Milan.

The name Bellovesus seems to prove that already by 600 BCE, the Celts worshipped Ba'al (cf. Belus, Beltaine).

• Livius, off urbe condita , 5,34.

• Hans's George Gundel: Bellovesus . In: Der small Pauly. Encyclopedia of the antique ones in five volumes . Volume 1, frame 859.

• description of the people migration under Bellovesus. In: Miranda Green: The Celtic World . * description of the people migration under Bellovesus. In: Henri Hubert: The Rise OF the Celts . == notes ==
  1. ^ Im material encyclopedia of the Germanic antiquity customer is for this marked: „ [...] Livius has the names of the trunks involved probably out in the 1. Jh. current names freely arranged, them did not hist [orischen] Qu [inches] worth (13, 345 FF.). “P. 275, [1].
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