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The Parisii (or Quarisii)[1] 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 on the site of Lutetia, 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.
References
- ^ Arbois de Jubainville, Henry; Georges Dottin (1889). Les premiers habitants de l'Europe at 133. E. Thorin. http://books.google.com/books?id=QSIDAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA132&lpg=RA1-PA132&dq=quarisii&source=web&ots=wLcrNZxpYd&sig=gN0tGAFAJ6Vgu79BXAZq83KefXY&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=8&ct=result#PRA1-PA132,M1.
See also
External links
Media related to Parisii at Wikimedia Commons- The Origins of the Family Names of Paris, Parish, Parrish, Pary, Parys, Etc.
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