The Parisii was a Celtic tribe in Gaul that inhabited the banks of the River Seine in Senonia (in what is now northern France). The land was colonized around 250 BC, and Lutetia served as the tribe's capital. During the Gallic Wars, as Julius Caesar's Roman legions entered the territory of the Parisii, the tribe burnt down their own towns rather than give up their possessions to the Romans. The land that they once inhabited would be named Paris after them.