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In 2019 Constanta's new Mercedes-Benz minibusses entered service. In October 2022 Constanta's new BYD electric buses entered service with CT Bus. Constanța is one of the main focuses of the Rail-2-Sea project which aims to connect it to the Polish Baltic Sea port of Gdańsk with a 3,663 kilometres (2,276 miles) long railway line passing ...
On Charles's death in December 1481, Provence passed to Charles's cousin, Louis XI, King of France. [2] The Estates of Provence on January 15, 1482, approved a document with 53 articles, informally called the "Provençal constitution", which made Louis XI the Count of Provence and proclaimed the union of France and Provence "as one principal to ...
The semi-independent Parlement of Aix-en-Provence and some of the cities of Provence, particularly Marseille, continued to rebel against the authority of the Bourbon king. After uprisings in 1630–31 and 1648–1652, the young King Louis XIV had two large forts, Fort Saint-Jean and Fort St. Nicholas, Marseille [ fr ] , built at the harbor ...
Contes (French pronunciation:; Occitan: Còntes; Italian: Conti) is a commune in the Alpes-Maritimes department in the region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur in south-eastern France. Its inhabitants are Contois.
The capital of Provence was moved from Arles to Aix-en-Provence, and later to Brignoles. [20] Under the Catalan counts, the 12th century saw the construction of important cathedrals and abbeys in Provence, in a harmonious new style, the Romanesque, which united the Gallo-Roman style of the Rhône Valley with the Lombard style of the Alps.
Area code +40 x41 4: ISO 3166 code: RO-CT: Car Plates: CT 5: GDP nominal: US$14.640 billion (2024)GDP per capita: US$22,351 (2024)Economy rank: 3rd: Website: County Board County Prefecture
The capital of Provence was moved from Arles to Aix-en-Provence, and later to Brignoles. [6] A shorter lasting partition in the next generation, between the County of Provence and the County of Forcalquier. was ended by an intra-dynastic marriage in 1193. The Church of Saint Trophime in Arles (12th century
Marseille Nice Aix-en-Provence Avignon Cannes. The largest cities in the region are Marseille (regional prefecture), Nice, Toulon and Aix-en-Provence, each with a population exceeding 100,000 inhabitants at the 1999 census. After Marseille, Nice is the second most populous city in the region, with a city proper population of about 350,000 and ...