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Paris

Gaulish (named after a people)
“land of the Parisii”
Where it comes from
named after the Parisii, a Gallic tribe that lived along the Seine
Fun Fact
In Roman times the city was called Lutetia, and it later took the tribe's name instead; the Trojan prince Paris is unrelated.
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