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Paris - France
Paris is the capital of France. His divides the town into a northern part and a southern part the river.
The villages of the Banlieue being outside the ring freeway are managed standalonely and don't belong to the city of Paris through this in the real meaning. The outstanding political, economic and cultural center of the country organized centralistly and its greatest traffic junction is Paris.
Story of Paris
The town developed . Chr since the middle of the 3rd century that one of today Île de is called La Cité its island from the keltischen settlement Lutuhezi of the tribe of the Parisier on this one.
After the conquest of the settlement by the romans in the year 52 V . Chr. the Parisii burned their Inselfort down and left it to the romans. These rebuilt the town as Lutetia and extended the town fastened now to the left Seineufer. Thermal springs, a forum and an amphitheater, arose there. The town was confessed in the Roman empire as Civitas Parisiorum or Parisia, however, remained quite insignificant in the occupied Gallien at first.
In the 5th century the roman power was ended by the Merowinger. Paris has become capital of the Merowingerreiches under Chlodwig I. in 508. To this it became a Franconian partial kingdom Paris under one of its sons. During the Carolingian power the Normans repeated attacked the town. The Kapetinger made Paris the capital of France. Philipp II. Augustus had the town fastened. 1190 became a wall on the right shore of his and an embankment at the left sets up shores in 1210. There were numerous dealers at the right Seineufer at that time. On cause Philipp II. the Louvre came into being at the western outskirts.
1181 the first covered market roofed over has been revealed to and 1301 has on the Île de of La Cité a royal palace been built. The Sorbonne in the south of Paris has developed from several small schools. Karl V. had the wall replaced at the left Seineufer to the protection of the town from the Englishmen. A wall also has been set up to 1370 on his cause on the right shore where the grands boulevards go today. During the Hundred Years' War Paris from 1420 to 1436 of English forces was occupied.
During the Hugenottenkriege between 1562 and 1598 the town remained in a roman catholic possession. Thousands have been murdered of Hugenotten in the Bartholomäusnacht on August 24th, 1572 in Paris. On cause Ludwig XIV. if street lightings are appropriate, the water supply modernized and been the hospitals disabled and Salpêtrière built. He had to take down the city walls of Paris and to set up the "large boulevards" to the place. The residence of the king was transferred to Versailles. Paris nevertheless remained the political center of France which had to be led back in the country on its high total population and its leading economic roll.
When the French revolution broke out in 1789, it was the population of Paris which paved the way to the abolition of the monarchy and to the introduction of the first French Republic. 1844 has a new town fastening been set up for defense purposes to boulevard Périphérique instead of today's. This had a length of 39 kilometers and has been the largest fastening system of the world with its 94 bastions and 16 Forts.
Paris had achieved the highest population of its history with almost three million in 1921. The municipal house building could hold no more steps with the demand. During the 2nd World War the town between 1940 and 1945 of the German armed forces was occupied.
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