Place:Basses-Alpes, France

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Name	Basses-Alpes
Alt names	Alpes-de-Haute-Provence
	Alpes-de-Haute Provence	source: Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
	Basses-Alpes	source: Encyclopædia Britannica (1988) I, 292; Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Type	Département
Coordinates	44.167°N 6°E
Located in	France (1790 - )
Also located in	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France

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Alpes-de-Haute-Provence (; Occitan: Aups d'Auta Provença) is a French department in the south of France, it was formerly part of the province of Provence.

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Nord-de-Provence was one of the 83 original departments created during the French Revolution on 4 March 1790. It was renamed Haute-Provence and Basses-Alpes.

On 12 August 1793, the department of Vaucluse was created from parts of the departments of Bouches-du-Rhône, Drôme, and Basses-Alpes. Basses-Alpes lost the canton of Sault to Vaucluse at this point. Seventeen years later, in 1810, the canton of Barcillonnette was transferred over to Hautes-Alpes.

On 13 April 1970, the department of Basses-Alpes was renamed Alpes-de-Haute-Provence.

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