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The Île de la Cité (French: [il d(ə) la site]; English: City Island, lit. "Island of the City"), [1] is 22.5 hectares (56 acres) in size, [2] is one of the two natural islands in the Seine River (alongside, Île Saint-Louis) in central Paris. In the 4th century, it was the site of the fortress of the area governor for the Roman Empire.
Ancient name: Location: Modern name: Also known as: Salamis: Cyprus: abandoned Same (Σάμη) island in the Ionian Sea, Greece Samos: in the island with the same name, Greece Scyllaeum: Calabria, Italy Scilla: Scolacium (Σκυλλήτιον) near Catanzaro, Calabria, Italy Squillace: Selinus: south-west coast of Sicily, Italy abandoned ...
Massalia (Greek: Μασσαλία, romanized: Massalía; Latin: Massilia) was an ancient Greek colony (apoikia) on the Mediterranean coast, east of the Rhône. Settled by the Ionians from Phocaea in 600 BC, this apoikia grew up rapidly, and its population set up many outposts for trading in modern-day Spain, Corsica and Liguria. Massalia ...
This is a list of cities and towns founded by the Romans. It lists cities established and built by the ancient Romans to have begun as a colony, often for the settlement of citizens or veterans of the legions. Many Roman colonies in antiquity rose to become important commercial and cultural centers, transportation hubs and capitals of global ...
When Saint Martin visited the city in 360, there was a cathedral, near the site of Notre-Dame de Paris. [citation needed] The end of the Roman Empire in the west, and the creation of the Merovingian dynasty in the 5th century, with its capital placed in Paris by Clovis I, confirmed the new role and name for
The Greek explorer Pytheas of the Greek city of Massalia (now Marseille, France) is the first to have written of Thule, after his travels between 330 and 320 BC.Pytheas mentioned going to Thule in his now lost work, On The Ocean Τὰ περὶ τοῦ Ὠκεανοῦ (ta peri tou Okeanou).
[10] [11] Proto-Germanic *walha is derived ultimately from the name of the Volcae. [12] Also unrelated, in spite of superficial similarity, is the name Gael. [14] The Irish word gall did originally mean "a Gaul", i.e. an inhabitant of Gaul, but its meaning was later widened to "foreigner", to describe the Vikings, and later still the Normans. [15]
Founded c. 600 BC by Greek settlers from Phocaea, Marseille is the oldest city in France, as well as one of Europe's oldest continuously inhabited settlements. [9] It was known to the ancient Greeks as Massalia and to Romans as Massilia. [9] [10] Marseille has been a trading port since ancient times. In particular, it experienced a considerable ...