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Avignon, in southern France.
The tribe living there was the Parisii( in Latin). Thus the place became known as Lutetia Parisiorum - Lutetia of the Parisii. There is a general tendency for people to use only the latter half of a two-word place name, and that's what happened here.
Louisiana was once a French colony as well as Canada and Haiti.
Regina is the capital of the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. This city was originally known as the "Pile of Bones".
yes I once knew a lady from France,
Lutece was the French name of the Gallo-Roman city of Lutetia. Much further on in history, this town became the French city of Paris.
Avignon, in southern France.
Paris
Istambul, the capital city of Turkey
France. Canada was known as New France, and New Orleans was sold to the US by Napoleon, Emperor of France.
Tokyo was once known as E(h)do.
New York City
Lisbon
Beirut
memphis
Mexico City, capital of Mexico and formerly known as Tenochtitlan.
This was once known as French Indo China.... France.