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Who named the city Paris?

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Anonymous

15y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

Indirectly, Julius Caesar. The town was called LUTETIA and was occupied by a tribe whose (latinised) name was the PARISII. Caesar therefore called the place LUTETIA PARISIORUM (Lutetia of the Parisii), and down the centuries the first part dropped away.

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