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is a commune in the Alpes-Maritimes department in
the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in
southeastern France

The Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region

 Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur is one of the 18 administrative regions of France.

 Its capital is Marseille.
 It encompasses six departments in south-eastern France: Alpes-de-Haute-Provence,
Alpes-Maritimes, Bouches-du-Rhône, Hautes-Alpes, Var and Vaucluse.
 It is bounded to the east by the France-Italy border, to the south by the
Mediterranean Sea and by the Principality of Monaco, to the north by Auvergne-
Rhône-Alpes, and to the west by Occitanie, with the Rhône river marking its
westernmost border.
 It was inhabited by the Liguri and then by the Celts, and from 600 BC were
established Greek and Phoenician colonies.
 In the 2nd century BC the Romans began to occupy the region progressively,
gradually becoming a province, the French name coming from the Latin province.
 After the fall of the Roman Empire, the region suffered multiple invasions from the
Visigoths in the fifth century, from Cent Francs, from the Arabs in the 8th century,
as well as from the numerous raids of the Berber pirates.
 Between 1032 and 1246 the region was part of the Holy Roman Empire and became
a property of the Kingdom of France in 1246 under the rule of the Angevin dynasty
until 1481 when it was inherited by King Louis XI.
 It was finally incorporated into the kingdom of France in 1486 and various enclaves
were successively added: Orange in 1672, Papal Territory of Avignon (a Papal
Domain in 1791) and Nice in 1860.
  Is a department of the Provence-Alpes-Côte
d'Azur region in the extreme southeast corner of
France.
 The inhabitants of the department are called
Maralpin(e)s.
 Alpes Maritimae was created by Octavian as
a Roman military district called maritimae Alps in
14BC, and became a full Roman province in the
middle of the 1st century AD with its capital first at
Cemenelum .
 A first French département of Alpes-
Maritimes existed in the same area from 1793 to 1814. In 1793 Alpes-Maritimes
included Monaco (Port Hercules) and San Remo (San Rème), but not Grasse which
was then part of the départment of Var.
 The département was subdivided into the following arrondissements and cantons
(situation in 1812):
a) Nice, cantons: Nice (2 cantons), Aspremont, La Brigue, Menton, Monaco,
Roquebillière, Saint-Sauveur-sur-Tinée, Saorge, L'Escarène, Sospel, Utelle and
Villefranche-sur-Mer.
b) Sanremo, cantons: Sanremo, Bordighera, Dolceacqua, Pigna, Taggia, Triora and
Ventimiglia.
c) Puget-Théniers, cantons: Puget-Théniers, Beuil, Gilette, Guillaumes,
Roquesteron, Saint-Étienne-de-Tinée and Villars-sur-Var.
 Its population in 1812 was 131,266, and its area was 322,674 hectares
 The department was reconstituted in 1860 when the county of Nice was annexed by
France. It included the county of Nice as well as the previously (at least nominally)
 independent towns of Menton and Roquebrune, and the arrondissement of Grasse
in the department of Var.
 In 1860 Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour, one of the architects of Italian unity with
the kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia, negotiated support for Napoleon III in exchange
for Savoy and the County of Nice.
 The annexation was confirmed on 15 and 16 April 1860 by 30,712 male electors
enrolled in the 89 communes of the County of Nice who, for the first time, had
universal male suffrage by plebiscite. The "Yes" vote for reunification with France
was 83.8% of registered voters and 99.2% of votes.
 The new department of Alpes-Maritimes consisted of the former County of Nice,
divided into an Arrondissement of Nice and an Arrondissement of Puget-Théniers
(both arrondissements existed in the former Department (1793–1814)), and a
portion of the Var department which formed the Arrondissement of Grasse.
However, the County of Nice did not include Tende and La Brigue which were
incorporated into France in the Treaty of Paris in 1947.
 The Arrondissement of Puget-Théniers was removed for purposes of economy in
1926 and attached to Nice: the department has not since had two districts.
 In 1947, in accordance with the Treaty of Paris and as a referendum result
favourable to their attachment to France, the communes of Tende and La Brigue
(also parts of communes in the high valleys of Vésubie and Tinée: part the commune
of Isola) which had been Italian since 1860, were attached to the department.