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Marseille is the third largest city in France by urban area (when combined with Aix-en-Provence), and the second most populous city in France, with 873,076 inhabitants in 2021 (Jan. census) [ 7 ] over a municipal territory of 241 km 2 (93 sq mi). Together with its suburbs and exurbs, the Marseille metropolitan area, which extends over 3,972 km ...
Map of Marseille, 1720. According to John Murray, [2] in 1854 the Old Port had a capacity of between 1,000 and 1,200 ships. Roughly 18,000 merchant ships passed through the port each year, carrying about 20 million barrels worth of freight; this represented a quarter of the trade in Liverpool at the time.
History of Marseille. Marseille, France was originally founded circa 600 BC as the Greek colony of Massalia (Latin: Massilia) and populated by Greeks from Phocaea (modern Foça, Turkey). It became the preeminent Greek polis in the Hellenized region of southern Gaul. [ 1 ]
Marseille-Fos Port (French: Grand port maritime de Marseille, lit. 'Great Seaport of Marseille') is the main trade seaport of France. In 2011, the port had an overall traffic of 88 million tons. It was also one of the 15 world's largest cruise ports and the fifth-largest in the Mediterranean. It has two main sites: in northern Marseille from La ...
It is located in the Bouches-du-Rhône, Var and Vaucluse departments, in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region, southeastern France. [1] It was created in January 2016, replacing the previous Communauté urbaine Marseille Provence Métropole and five communautés d'agglomération. [2] Its area is 3149.2 km 2. Its population was 1,889,666 in ...
1486 - Marseille becomes part of France. [1] 1524 - Town besieged by forces of Francis I. [2] ... Map of Marseille, 1999; Items related to Marseille, ...
Marseille, France's second-largest city, has one of the largest container ports in the country. It prizes itself as France's oldest city, founded by Greek settlers from Phocaea around 600 BC. [ 3 ] Bouches-du-Rhône is the most populous department of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region , with 2,043,110 inhabitants as of 2019. [ 4 ]
Marseille Cathedral. Marseille Cathedral (French: Cathédrale Sainte-Marie-Majeure de Marseille or Cathédrale de la Major) is a Roman Catholic cathedral and a national monument of France. Located in Marseille, it has been a basilica minor since 1896. It is the seat of the Archdiocese of Marseille (the Diocese of Marseille until its elevation ...