Editing History of Belgium (section)

== Names ==
Belgium and Flanders were the first two common names used for the Burgundian Netherlands which was the predecessor of the Austrian Netherlands, the predecessor of Belgium.<ref>{{Citation |last=Van Der Essen |first=Leon |title=Notre nom national |work=Revue belge de philologie et d'histoire |volume=4 |issue=1 |pages=121–131 |date=1925 |url=http://www.persee.fr/doc/rbph_0035-0818_1925_num_4_1_6335 |doi=10.3406/rbph.1925.6335}}</ref> The [[County of Flanders]] was the original foothold of the Burgundian dukes in the region, to which other territories were later attached.

"Belgium" is originally a Latin term used by Julius Caesar,<ref>Caesar, ''Gallic War'', [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0002:book=8:chapter=46&highlight=belgio%2Cbelgium 8.46] (In online English translations, this sentence is often included in the next paragraph, [https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Commentaries_on_the_Gallic_War/Book_8#47 8.47]).</ref> referring to an area now mostly in Northern France, where the tribes ruling the military alliance of the [[Belgae]] lived.<ref>{{Citation |last=González Villaescusa |title=Gallia Belgica: An Entity with No National Claim |work=Études rurales |volume=2 |issue=2 |pages=93–111 |date=2011 |doi=10.4000/etudesrurales.9499 |last2=Jacquemin |doi-access=free}}</ref><ref>{{Citation|first=Edith |last=Wightman |title=Gallia Belgica |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=aEyS54uSj88C&pg=PA12 12] |date=1985|publisher=University of California Press |isbn=978-0-5200-5297-0}}</ref> Under Roman rule this region was the equivalent of the province of ''Belgica Secunda'', which stretched into the coastal Flemish part of modern Belgium.

In late Roman and medieval times the term Belgium tended to be used to refer to Roman ''Belgica Prima'', and its successor [[Upper Lotharingia]], in the [[Moselle]] region of Germany, Luxembourg and France. Only slowly in modern times did the old term start to be used for the area to the north of the two Roman ''Belgica'' provinces, now the Netherlands and Belgium. A key turning point when it was used specifically to refer to the southern part of the Netherlands was during the so-called "Brabant revolution" or "First Belgian Revolution" in 1790. This terminology was revived after the better known revolution of 1830, when modern Belgium broke out of the post-Waterloo kingdom of the Netherlands.