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Monaco, [a] officially the Principality of Monaco, [b] is a sovereign city-state and microstate on the French Riviera a few kilometres west of the Italian region of Liguria, in Western Europe, on the Mediterranean Sea. It is a semi-enclave bordered by France to the north, east and west.
This is a list of people from Monaco. Romeo Acquarone (1895–1980), tennis player; Olivier Beretta (born 1969), Formula One racing driver; Louis Chiron (1899–1979), Formula One racing driver; Charles Leclerc (born 1997), Formula One racing driver; Arthur Leclerc (born 2000), racing driver; Laetitia Mikail (born 1980s), lawyer and event planner
also: Countries: Monaco: People: Subcategories. This category has the following 18 subcategories, out of 18 total. Monegasque people by descent (29 C) ...
A country demonym denotes the people or the inhabitants of or from there; for example, "Germans" are people of or from Germany. Demonyms are given in plural forms. Singular forms simply remove the final s or, in the case of -ese endings, are the same as the plural forms. The ending -men has feminine equivalent -women (e.g. Irishman, Scotswoman).
Things or people from, or related to Monaco. Demographics of Monaco; See also. All pages with titles beginning with Monégasque ; Les Monégasques (disambiguation)
After the age of 18, a person who was born in Monaco of a parent who was either born Monégasque or who had ancestors of the same branch born Monégasque but who has since renounced Monégasque citizenship can make a declaration before a Registrar provided that he lived in the Principality and proves that he has had his legal domicile or habitual residence there during his childhood.
The Port and Rock of Monaco were consecrated by the Phoenicians in the name of their deity Melqart. The colony was called Monoike. After the Phoenicians, the Greeks wrote about the progress and conquests of the journeys and labors of Heracles. The native Ligurian people asserted that Hercules passed through the area. [2]
Monégasque is the traditional national language of the Monegasque people (who represent only 21.6% of the total population [1]). It is a dialect of Ligurian, and is somewhat similar to Italian. Because the Monégasques are a minority in Monaco, their tongue was threatened with extinction in the 1970s.