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Belgians ((オランダ語:Belgen), (フランス語:Belges), (ドイツ語:Belgier)) are the citizens and natives of the Kingdom of Belgium, a federal state in Western Europe. ==Etymology== Belgians are a relatively "new" people. The 1830 revolution led to the establishment of an independent country under a provisional government and a national congress.〔 name=Dobbelaere-VoyE> 〕〔 name=Gooch> 〕 The Belgian people are descendants of the Celtic Belgae and Germanic peoples such as the Frisians, Franks, and the Saxons. The name "Belgium" was adopted for the country, the word being derived from ''Gallia Belgica'', a Roman province in the northernmost part of Gaul that, before Roman invasion in 100 BC, was inhabited by the ''Belgae'', a mix of Celtic and Germanic peoples.〔 〕〔 Footnote: The Celtic and/or Germanic influences on and origin(s) of the Belgae remains disputed. Further reading e.g. 〕 The Latin name was revived in 1790 by the short-lived United Belgian States which was created after a revolution against Austrian rule took place in 1789. Since no adjective equivalent to "Belgian" existed at the time, the French noun "Belgique" (or "Belgium") as both noun and adjective; a phenomenon borrowed from Latin which was still commonly used during the period.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.canaris1790.be/fr/index.php?id=12 )〕 From the sixteenth century, the The Low Countries" or "The Netherlands", were referred to as 'Belgica' in Latin. As was the Dutch Republic. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Belgians」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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