Place:Alpes-Maritimes, France

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NameAlpes-Maritimes
Alt namesAlpes Maritimaesource: Times Atlas of World History (1993) p 89
Alpes Maritimessource: Rand McNally Atlas (1986) I-36
TypeDépartement
Coordinates44°N 7.167°E
Located inFrance
Also located inProvence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France    
Provence, France    
Contained Places
Arrondissement
Grasse
Commune
Andon
Antibes
Aspremont
Auribeau-sur-Siagne
Beaulieu-sur-Mer
Beausoleil
Bouyon
Cabris
Cannes
Cap-d'Ail
Caussols
Châteauneuf
Châteauneuf-Villevieille
Cipières
Escragnolles
Isola
Le Cannet
Levens
Menton ( 500 - )
Mouans-Sartoux
Mougins
Nice
Pégomas
Roquebrune-Cap-Martin
Saint-Cézaire-sur-Siagne
Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat
Saint-Laurent-du-Var
Saint-Paul
Tourrette-Levens
Utelle
Valbonne
Vence
Villefranche-sur-Mer
Villeneuve-Loubet
Former village
Thorenc
Inhabited place
Ascros
Auron
Bar-sur-Loup
Berre-des-Alpes
Beuil
Biot
Breil-sur-Roya
Cagnes-sur-Mer
Caille
Cannet
Carros
Cimiez
Clans
Contes
Drap
Entraunes
Escarène
Estèng
Falicon
Fontan
Gattières
Gilette
Golfe-Juan
Gourdon
Gréolières
Guillaumes
Juan-les Pins
La Bollène-Vésubie
La Brigúe
La Colle-sur-Loup
La Tour
Le Boréon
Le Broc
Le Tignet
Lieuche
Lucéram
Mandelieu-La Napoule ( 1970 - )
Miramar
Moulinet
Peillon
Peïra-Cava
Puget-Théniers
Péone
Roquebillière
Roquesteron
Saint Auban
Saint Dalmas-de-Tendée
Saint Martin d'Entraunes
Saint Martin-Vésubie
Saint Martin-du-Var
Saint Sauveur-sur-Tinée
Saint Vallier-de-Thiey
Saint Étienne-de-Tinée
Saint-Dalmas-Valdeblore
Sainte-Agnès
Sallagriffon
Saorge
Sospel
Tende
Tourrette-du-Château
Tourrette-sur-Loup ( 600 - )
Touët-sur-Var
Turbie
Valdeblore
Vallauris
Venanson
Villars-sur-Var
Unknown
Aiglun
Amirat
Auvare
Bairols
Belvédère
Bendejun
Berghé-Inférieur
Berghé-Supérieur
Bezaudun-les-Alpes
Blausasc
Bonson
Brianson
Briançonnet
Cantaron
Castagniers
Castellar
Castillon
Châteauneuf-d'Entraunes
Coaraze
Collongues
Colomars
Conségudes
Courmes
Coursegoules
Croix-sur-Roudoule
Cros-d'Utelle
Cuébris
Daluis
Duranus
Enaux
Esteing
Eze
Gars
Gorbio
Iles-de-Lérins
Ilonse
L'Escarène
La Gaude
La Napoule
La Penne
La Roquette-sur-Siagne
La Roquette-sur-Var
La Sagne
La Trinité
La Turbie
Lantosque
Le Bar-sur-Loup
Le Chaudan
Le Figaret
Le Mas
Le Prignolet
Le Rouret
Le Sauze
Les Ferres
Les Mujouls
Les Tourrettes
Loda-de-Lantosque
Magagnosc
Malaussène
Mandelieu
Marie
Massoins
Mollières
Opio
Peille
Peymeinade
Pierlas
Pierrefeu
Plan-de-Grasse
Plascassier
Puget-Rostang
Pélasque
Revest-les-Roches
Rigaud
Rimplas
Roquefort-les-Pins
Roquesteron-Grasse
Roubion
Roure
Roussillon
Roya
Sclos-de-Contes
Sigale
Spéracèdes
St-André
St-Antoine-de-Siga
St-Antonin
St-Blaise
St-Colomban
St-Dalmas-le-Selvage
St-Jean-la-Rivière
St-Jeannet
St-Léger
Séranon
Thiéry
Toudon
Tourette-du-Château
Tournefort
Toüet-de-l'Escarène
Valderoure
Vernéa
Villeneuve-d'Entraunes
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
source: Family History Library Catalog


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Alpes-Maritimes (; ; , "Maritime Alps") is a department of France located in the country's southeast corner, on the Italian border and Mediterranean coast. Part of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region, it encompasses the French Riviera alongside neighbouring Var. Alpes-Maritimes had a population of 1,094,283 in 2019. Its prefecture (and largest city) is Nice, with Grasse as the sole subprefecture.

Alpes-Maritimes has become one of the world's most attractive tourist destinations in recent years, featuring renowned cities and towns such as Nice, Grasse, Cannes, Antibes, Menton, Èze, Roquebrune-Cap-Martin and Sainte-Agnès, as well as numerous alpine ski resorts. It also entirely surrounds the Principality of Monaco. The department's inhabitants are called Maralpins (masculine) or Maralpines (feminine); its flag and arms are those of the City of Nice. In terms of politics, Alpes-Maritimes is one of France's most right-wing departments, as the majority led by The Republicans in the departmental council holds all but two of the 54 seats following the 2021 election.

History

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The Roman military district of Alpes Maritimae was created by Augustus in 14 BC. It became a full Roman province in the middle of the 1st century AD, with its capital first at Cemenelum (today Cimiez, a suburb north of Nice) and subsequently at Embrun. At its greatest extent in AD 297, the province reached north to Digne and Briançon.

Conquered by the French First Republic during the French Revolutionary Wars, a department of Alpes-Maritimes was first set up in 1793 with different boundaries from those of the modern department. In 1793, Alpes-Maritimes included Monaco (Port Hercules), but not Grasse, which was then part of the department of Var as an historical part of France. In 1805, San Remo (San Rème) was included after the disbandment of the Ligurian Republic. In 1812, the department had three arrondissements with the following cantons:

The population of the department in 1812 was 131,266, and its area was , covering both present-day Arrondissement of Nice, Principality of Monaco and Province of Imperia.[1]

In 1814, at the close of the Napoleonic Wars, the territory was restored to the Crown of Savoy by the Congress of Vienna.

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 as set forth in the Treaty of Turin. 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 still part of Piedmont-Sardinia.

For economic reasons, the Arrondissement of Puget-Théniers was merged into the Arrondissement of Nice in 1926. Since that time, the department has had two arrondissements.

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 not been ceded to France in 1860, were attached to the department.

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