Lutetia

Lutetia, also known as Lutetia Parisiorum, was a Gallo-Roman town and the predecessor of modern Paris. Traces of an earlier Neolithic settlement have been found nearby, and a larger settlement was established around the middle of the third century BC by the Parisii, a Gallic tribe, at an important crossing point of the Seine. Conquered by the Romans in the first century BC, the town grew into a city with a forum, amphitheatre, aqueduct and baths, and by the fifth century had become the capital of the Merovingian dynasty of French kings, after which it was known as Paris.