Parisii (France)
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- This article is about Celtic-Gallic people called the Parisii. For the tribe called Parisii in the north-east of Britain, and its possible links to this tribe, see Parisii (Yorkshire). For other uses, see Paris (disambiguation).
The Parisii (or Quarisii) were a Celtic Iron Age people that lived on the banks of the river Seine (in Latin, Sequana) in Gaul from the middle of the third century BC until the Roman era. With the Suessiones, the Parisii participated in the general rising of Vercingetorix against Julius Caesar in 52 BC.
Their chief city (oppidum) was Lutetia Parisiorum, which later became an important city in the Roman province of Gallia Lugdunensis and ultimately the modern city of Paris. (The name Paris is derived from Parisii).
Barry Cunliffe in Iron Age Communities in Britain (1974) p. 45, distinguishes the Parisii as those in the Nanterre-Paris region, and the Parisi as those who moved to Britain, based on Ptolemy's descriptions.
