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	Online Encyclopedia and Dictionary - Paris
		The original Latin name of Paris was Lutetia (/lutetja/), or Lutetia Parisiorum, known in French as Lutèce (/lytɛs/).
		Lutetia was later dropped in favor of only Paris, based on the name of the Gallic Parisi tribe, whose name perhaps comes from the Celtic Gallic word parios, meaning "caldron", but this is not certain.
		Paris was occupied by a Gallic tribe until the Romans arrived in 52 BC.
	fact-archive.com /encyclopedia/Paris (3583 words)

	Lutetia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lutetia (sometimes Lutetia Parisiorum or Lucotecia, in French Lutèce) was a town in pre-Roman and Roman Gaul.
		Lutetia and Paris have little in common save their position where an island, the Île de la Cité created a convenient ford of the Seine.
		Roman Lutetia was founded above the flood-prone point where the Bièvre stream reaches the river Seine, centered on the slopes of the hill later dedicated to Saint Genevieve, on the left bank of the Seine (modern-day Quartier Latin).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lutetia (847 words)

	Lutetia - the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The name of Lutetia was first recorded by Julius Caesar in his Commentaries on the Gallic Wars (notably in book 7, chapters 57-58).
		Under Roman rule, Lutetia was thoroughly Romanised and grew considerably to become a small city, with a population estimated at around 8,000 people.
		There is also an asteroid named 21 Lutetia; and the element lutetium was named after the city, in honour of its discovery in a Paris laboratory.
	www.free-web-encyclopedia.com /?t=Lutetia (450 words)

	Lutetia - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The town was captured by the Roman Empire in 52 BC during the conquest of Gaul.
		Lutetia was renamed Paris in 212, taking its name from the Celtic Parisii.
		The only other signs of Roman Lutetia are the remains of public baths at the Musée de Cluny and the catacombs under Montparnasse.
	open-encyclopedia.com /Lutetia (427 words)

	lutetia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Lutetia (sometimes Lutetia Parisiorum or Lucotecia, in French Lutèce) was the name of a city in pre-Roman and Roman Gaul.
		Lutetia was the chief city (oppidum) of the Parisii, a Celtic people who settled in the area during the middle of the third century B.C. Lutetia was occupied by Julius Caesar during the conquest of Gaul in 53 BC.
		It received its modern name of Paris in 212 A.D. Lutetia was renamed Paris after the city of Ys (it is said that Ys was the most wonderful city in the world) was destroyed, because "Par-Is" in Breton means "Similar to Ys".
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /lutetia.html (316 words)

	Lutetia [Definition] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Lutetia (sometimes Lutetia Parisiorum or Lucotecia, in French Lutèce) was a town in pre-Roman and RomanThe Roman era is a period in Western history, when ancient Rome was the center of power of the world around the Mediterranean sea, where Latin was the lingua franca.
		Lutetia was founded at the point where the Bièvre stream reaches the river Seine, both on the left bank of the Seine and on an island across from the confluence (modern-day Quartier LatinThe Quartier Latin (Latin Quarter) is an area in the 5th arrondissement of Paris, France, around the Sorbonne University.
		Lutetia was renamed Paris in 212 Events Roman Emperor Caracalla decrees that freemen throughout the Roman Empire become Roman Citizens.
	www.wikimirror.com /Lutetia (1621 words)

	PARISI (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Realising the formidable defences afforded Lutetia by the river, Labienus first turned his forces against the Suessiones, capturing their city of Metiosedum, which was likewise situated on an island in the Seine, though evidently less formidably defended.
		Hearing of the Roman's imminent approach off refugees from the recently sacked town, the citizens of Lutetia were compelled to abandon their city and set it afire before withdrawing into the nearby marshes.
		Lutetia Parisiorum and Agedincum Senonum were the two major cities of the Province of Lugdunensis Senonia following the Division of Empire c.
	www.roman-britain.org /tribes/parisi.htm (766 words)

	Search Results for "Lutetia"
		Founded as a fishing village on the Ile de la Cite, Paris (then called Lutetia) was captured and fortified by the Romans in 52 b.c.
		His works include a volume of criticism, Madame Lutetia (1883), and a naturalistic novel of Munich life, Was die Isar rauscht...
		...Early HistoryJulius Caesar conquered Paris in 52 B.C. It was then a fishing village, called Lutetia Parisiorum (the Parisii were a Gallic tribe), on the Ile de la...
	www.bartleby.com /cgi-bin/texis/webinator/sitesearch?FILTER=&query=Lutetia (187 words)

	Dictionary of Meaning www.mauspfeil.net
		'''Lutetia''' (sometimes ''Lutetia Parisiorum'' or ''Lucotecia'', in French language French ''Lutèce'') was a town in pre-Roman and Roman era Roman Gaul.
		The name of ''Lutetia'' was first recorded by Julius Caesar in his ''De Bello Gallico Commentaries on the Gallic Wars'' (notably in book 7, chapters 57-58).
		''Lutetia was renamed Paris after the city of Ys (it is said that Ys was the most wonderful city in the world) was destroyed, because "Par-Is" in Breton means "Similar to Ys".'' Is that right?
	www.mauspfeil.net /Lutetia.html (688 words)

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		The status of Lutetia Parisiorum in antiquity was just a shadow of the present position of Paris.
		Lutetia had three bath houses of which the oldest was from the first century AD.
		It is taken for granted that the major one, the Themes de Cluny, was fed by the Lutetia aqueduct., which capacity was bout 2.000 m3/day.
	www.cs.uu.nl /~wilke/aquasite/paris (601 words)

	Parisii at AllExperts
		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 B.C. until the Roman era.
		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.
		With the Suessiones, the Parisii participated in the general rising of Vercingetorix against Julius Caesar in 52 B.C. Following their defeat some may at this time have fled to Britain although it is more likely that Parisii had already colonised part of the island before this time and preceding the waves of Belgic immigration.
	en.allexperts.com /e/p/pa/parisii.htm (475 words)

	Lutetia Paris
		The name of Lutetia was first recorded by Julius Caesar in hisCommentaries on the Gallic Wars (notably in book 7, chapters 57-58).
		Under Roman rule, Lutetia was thoroughly Romanised and grew considerably to become a small city, with a population estimatedat around 8,000 people.
		Lutetia was renamed Paris in 212, taking its name from...
	www.altvetmed.com /face/13601-lutetia-paris.html (475 words)

	Encyclopedia: Lutetia
		Vercingetorix (72 BC - 46 BC), chieftain of the Arverni, led the great Gallic revolt against the Romans in 53-52 BC.
		Melun is a French city and commune on the river Seine, about 50 km south-southeast of Paris.
		21 Lutetia (loo TET ee a) is a large Main belt asteroid, about 100 kilometers in diameter.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Lutetia (1792 words)

	parihist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		By the time the Romans came, Lutetia (the name means ‘marshy’ was big enough to send an army of 8,000 men to help Vercingetorix against Julius Caesar.
		The Romans themselves were part of the process, and the Barbarians who reached Lutetia in 253 were the beginning of the end for the Roman Empire.
		The people of Lutetia retreated to the Island and watched helplessly as the town was destroyed — even to the amphitheatre, which was filled and became a graveyard.
	www.grenfell-banks.com /WEBSITE2/parihist.htm (9189 words)

	Paris - The Romans In Lutetia
		Constantius Chlorus is thought to have been the builder; he lived fourteen winters in Lutetia; while it is historically certain that Julian the Apostate lived here and that, in 306, his troops proclaimed him emperor in the camp without the Palais des Thermes.
		For some it indicated the " city of crows," for others " the muddiest " city; but in any case, whatever its derivative, the name of the town was soon displaced by the name of the tribe, and Lutetia be-came Parisea Civitas, the city of the Parisians, and so Paris.
		A dozen of these blocks were taken up and deposited in the garden of the Palais des Thermes as part of its contemporary collection.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles08/paris-travel-3.shtml (2343 words)

	Paris - Wikipedia
		Canal Saint-Martin, som tar av fra Seinen ved Arsenal i nærheten av Bastille-plassen og går i nordøstlig retning til Bassin de la Villette og deretter inn i Canal de l'Ourcq.
		Paris blir omtalt allerede i romertiden da Lutetia Parisiorum var hovedsete for en keltisk stamme kalt pariserene.
		Da romerene senere tok byen gjorde de Lutetia til provinshovedstad.
	no.wikipedia.org /wiki/Paris (820 words)

	megaCities:Dutch:Paris:Geschiedenis
		De Romeinen noemden de stad toen ze haar veroverden Lutetia Parisiorum en zij construeerden een houten brug vanaf de plaats waar nu de Notre-Dame staat naar het vasteland.
		In de derde eeuw, toen Parijs een bisschoppelijke residentie en later de hoofdstad van het noordwestelijk deel van het Romeinse rijk werd, woonden er ongeveer 6000 mensen en groeide met de welvaart de stad.
		In 360 werd de naam Lutetia veranderd in die van Parijs.
	library.thinkquest.org /20377/dutch/paris/history_dtchhtml.htm (526 words)

	Dictionary of Meaning www.mauspfeil.net
		The first known permanent settlement on the site was founded about 250 BC by a Celtic tribe called the Parisii, who established a fishing village on the Seine island that was later to become the Ile de la Cité.
		This was known as Lutetia, a name first recorded by Julius Caesar in his ''Gallic Wars.'' Lutetia was a prosperous place and occupied a very strategic position on the river, controlling shipping in both directions.
		Lutetia was renamed '''Paris''' in 212, after the local tribe, but the rest of the 3rd and 4th century was wracked by war and civil unrest.
	www.mauspfeil.net /History_of_Paris.html (5297 words)

	What was the previous name for Paris, France?
		The sleepy Gallo-Roman burg of Lutetia Parisorum sprang into existence in 52 BC, on a site blessed by the fertile confluence of Seine and Marne and surrounded by hills facilitating its defense.
		Lutetia (sometimes Lutetia Parisiorum or Lucotecia, in French Lutèce) was a town in pre-Roman and Roman Gaul.
		Lutetia and Paris have little in common save their position where an island, the Île de la Cité created a convenient ford of the Seine.
	www.funtrivia.com /askft/Question47152.html (157 words)

	PARIS
		Rome conquered the region in 52 BC and built the city of Lutetia on the left bank Sainte Geneviève Hill which was protected from river floods.
		Lutetia expanded and prospered during the ensuing period of peaceful Gallo-Roman cohabitation, but third-century Germanic invasions caused a period of decline.
		By 400 AD Lutetia had become a garrison town entrenched on the hastily fortified central island.
	www.solarnavigator.net /geography/paris.htm (5163 words)

	Lutetia
		Byline: Chantal Goupil PARIS -- When Sandrine Kiberlain arrives at the Lutetia bar slightly out of breath, it is not for the usual harried-actress reasons.
		LUTETIA, which means mid-water settlement because the city began on an island in the middle of the River Seine in the third century...
		Lutetia, seu Lutetia Parisiorum urbs in Francia meridionalis et caput Francii est.
	latin.dictionary.cx /Lutetia (265 words)

	The Route To Active Lifestyle - Paris (Great Cities Through the Ages)
		Renzo Rossi shows how in between it was the Roman cityof Lutetia Parisiorum, an important political and cultural center during the Middle Ages, and the driving force of the French Revolution.
		Each "chapter" in the book is a two-page spread, where there is a brief paragraph of text and then most of the information is dispensed in the captions that accompany the photographs and illustrations.
		Rossi devotes most of the chapters to specific periods in the history of the city: Lutetia, Paris in the Middle Ages, Renaissance Paris, Paris in the 17th Century, Revolutionary Times, Napoleon and the Restoration, the Second Empire, the Belle Epoque, the City of Light, and 1945 to Present.
	www.activeroute.com /index.php/trade/productinfo/ASIN/1592700047 (600 words)

	Lutetia — FactMonster.com
		The Romans call itLutetia Parisiorum, the mud-town of the Parisii.
		The former word being dropped, has left the present name Paris.
		Lutetia - Lutetia Mud-hovels; the ancient name of Paris.
	www.factmonster.com /dictionary/brewers/lutetia.html (107 words)

	Historical Miniatures (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		In order to protect the best of his provinces, and perhaps for other reasons, the Emperor sent his cousin and brother-in-law, Julian, to subdue the Germans.
		Although Julian had been educated in a convent and at a university, he seems to have understood the art of war, for he defeated the invaders and then retired to Lutetia Parisiorum.
		The legions had marched up the Mons Martis or Martyrorum, as it was called by turns.
	www.manybooks.net /pages/strindbeetext058hsmn10/80.html (332 words)

	Paris articles and news from Start Learning Now (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Lutetia was later dropped in favor of only Paris, based on the name of the Gaulish languageGallic Parisi tribe, whose name perhaps comes from the Celtic Gallic word parios, meaning "caldron", but this is not certain.
		Paris was occupied by a GaulGallic tribe until the Roman empireRomans arrived in 52 BC.
		- 52 BC - Lutetia, later to become Paris, is built by the Gallo-Romans
	www.startlearningnow.com /Paris.htm (5411 words)

	Newman Reader - Catena Aurea
		Nor is it the case with this Catena as it seems to be with every other, that some one commentary has been taken as a nucleus or basis, into which other extracts have been inserted.
		Cramer says, that Chrysostom is the staple {vi} of all the Greek Catenas on S. Matthew; but though S. Thomas held Chrysostom in such esteem that he is reported to have said 'malle se uti Chrysostomi libris in Matthæum quam possidere fruique Lutetia Parisiorum,' (præf.
		Ben.) and though he has drawn upon the homilies very largely, it is no more than he has done upon nearly all the principal commentaries.
	www.newmanreader.org /works/fathers/catena.html (2990 words)

	2 out of 7, antoninus!
		I can give you "Waterloo" (Abba) and "Baker Street"(Gerry Rafferty), but none of the other 5 London tube stations you claim have been the title of a chart hit in the last 40 years - do you REALLY have a hit single in your collection that goes by the name of "Piccadilly"??!!?
		Also, I hate to be picky but you claim that the Roman name for your home-town of Paris was "Lutetia Parisii".
		The Latin you are looking for is "Lutetia ParisiORUM":a major grammatical difference!
	www.ancientworlds.net /578363 (175 words)

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