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The County of Provence was ruled by junior branches of the House of France from 1246 onwards, but only became formally part of the Kingdom of France with the death of Charles du Maine on 11 December 1481. [2]: 41 A stillborn attempt to revive the kingdom of Burgundy/Arles was made by Charles of Anjou in coordination with Pope Nicholas III.
Arles was an important Jewish crossroads, as a port city and close to Spain and the rest of Europe alike. It served a major role in the work of the Hachmei Provence group of famous Jewish scholars, translators and philosophers, who were most important to Judaism throughout the Middle Ages.
English: A map of the Kingdom of Arles/Arelat/Burgundy within Europe circa 1000 CE. The main subdivisions of the Byzantine Empire, Holy Roman Empire, Burgundy, France and Poland are also shown. The main subdivisions of the Byzantine Empire, Holy Roman Empire, Burgundy, France and Poland are also shown.
The first town hall in Arles was a medieval building, between to the Palais des Podestats on the Plan de La Cour, and the clock tower, which dated back to the early 16th century. [2] [3] The clock tower itself was surmounted by a bronze statue of the god, Mars, which was cast by Laurent Vincent of Avignon in 1515. [4]
Arles, Roman and Romanesque Monuments (French: Arles, monuments romains et romans) [1] is an area containing a collection of monuments in the city centre of Arles, France, that has been listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1981. The official brief description for this as a World Heritage Site is:
Dynamic map of the European frontiers of France from 985 to 1947. This article describes the process by which metropolitan France - that part of France that is located in Europe, excluding its various overseas territories - came to consist of the territory it does today. Its current borders date from 1947.
The Kingdom of Lower Burgundy, also called Cisjurane Burgundy, was a historical kingdom in what is now southeastern France, so-called because it was lower down the Rhône Valley than Upper Burgundy. Lower Burgundy started when Boso , Count of Vienne and the nobles of the region renounced the Carolingian line in 879.
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