Lutetia

Lutetia (sometimes Lutetia Parisiorum or Lucotecia, in French Lut?ce) was a town in pre-Roman and Roman Gaul. The Gallo-Roman city was a forerunner of the re-established Merovingian town that is the ancestor of present-day Paris. Lutetia and Paris have little in common save their position where an island, the ?le de la Cit? created a convenient ford of the Seine.

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Somewhere in the immediate area was the chief settlement or oppidum of the Parisii, a Celtic people who settled in the area during the 3rd century BC. However, dendrochronological study of wooden pilings beneath the lowest stratum of the Roman north-south axis date the road's construction after 4 CE, more than fifty years after the Roman pacification of the region.

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