Where does surname BELCAS originate?

Question

I know ancestors are from greece, but I'm looking for more specific locations. Any other info on name would be greatly appreciated! Thanks

Answer 1

This is the only source of information I was able to find for you:

If people akin for example to the Ruteni were living on the other side of the Pyrennés, we may consider the alternative point of view that some Celtiberian tribes were for example of same stock as the Belgians, that had invaded this area in the VII-VIII century. BC., or with the Aquitani, whom many identifies with the present-day Basques, but a convincent documentation does´nt exist. There were Belgian populations to the other side of the Pyrenees like f.ex. the Berones of the zone of La Rioja, but we do not know the type of relation between populations to both sides of the Pyrenees. We know that in the II century BC. the tribe of the Salyes or Saluvii spaned from Marseille to Saduba (present-day Zaragoza), wherefrom the Turma Salluitana of the Ascoli Bronze had received its name.

In other words, the different regions were not as homogeneous as Caesars description tells us according to the following examples. The poet Ausonius classifies the Teutosages/Tectosages, a powerful Gallic/Aquitanian tribe whose main city was the present-day Toulouse, as originally Belgians:



"...usque in Teutosagos, paganica nomina, Belcas,..." (...as far as the Teutosagi, whose original name was Belgians.) (Ausonius. Ordo Urbium Nobilium - Narbona).

(found at http://www.cybud.net/Caesar_Saxo.htm)

I hope that helps!