A Celtic iron age tribe called the Parisii established a fishing village near the river Seine.
Traditionally the original settlement known as Lutetia was thought to have been located on the Île de la Cité; however it is now believed that the largest pre-Roman settlement in what is now Paris may have been in the present-day suberb of Nanterre.
An interactive English language website on the early history of Paris is http://www.paris.culture.fr/en/, accessed 06-17-2011.
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