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  2. Provence - Wikipedia

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    A map of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur administrative region The historical province of Provence (orange) within the contemporary region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur in southeastern France. Provence [a] is a geographical region and historical province of southeastern France, which stretches from the left bank of the lower Rhône to the west ...

  3. History of Provence - Wikipedia

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    The historic French province of Provence, located in the southeast corner of France between the Alps, the Mediterranean, the Rhône river and the upper reaches of the Durance river, was inhabited by Ligures beginning in Neolithic times; by the Celtic since about 900 BC, and by Greek colonists since about 600 BC. [1]

  4. Alpes-de-Haute-Provence - Wikipedia

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    The Alpes de Hautes-Provence department is a region where 49.1% of the area is forested or 343,691 hectares, with an average rate of 39.4% for the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. [15] The National Office of Forests (ONF) manages 86,000 hectares. The main species exploited are Scots pine, black pine, larch, pubescent oak (or white oak), and ...

  5. Aix-en-Provence - Wikipedia

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    Aix-en-Provence [a] or simply Aix, is a city and commune in southern France, about 30 km (20 mi) north of Marseille.A former capital of Provence, it is the subprefecture of the arrondissement of Aix-en-Provence, in the department of Bouches-du-Rhône, in the region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur.

  6. Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur - Wikipedia

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    The region is roughly coterminous with the former French province of Provence, with the addition of the following adjacent areas: the former papal territory of Avignon, known as Comtat Venaissin; the former Sardinian-Piedmontese County of Nice annexed in 1860, whose coastline is known in English as the French Riviera and in French as the Côte d'Azur; and the southeastern part of the former ...

  7. Avignon - Wikipedia

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    Avignon (/ ˈ æ v ɪ n j ɒ̃ /, US also / ˌ æ v ɪ n ˈ j oʊ n /, [5] [6] [7] French: ⓘ; Provençal: Avinhon (Classical norm) or Avignoun (Mistralian norm), IPA:; Latin: Avenio) is the prefecture of the Vaucluse department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region of southeastern France.

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