Parisii (Gaul)
Gallic tribe
The Parisii (Gaulish: *Parisioi; Greek: Παρίσιοι, romanized: Parísioi) were a Gallic tribe that dwelt on the banks of the river Seine during the Iron Age and the Roman era. They lived on lands now occupied by the modern city of Paris; that name is a derivation of their ethnonym.
Name
They are mentioned as Parisii by Caesar (mid-1st c. BC), Parísioi (Παρίσιοι; var. Παρήσιοι) by Strabo (early 1st c. AD) and Ptolemy (2nd c. AD), Parisi by Pliny (mid-1st c. AD), and as Parisius and Parisios in the Notitia Dignitatum (5th c. AD). Another tribe named Parisii is also documented (with only one attestation) in Britain.
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