Place:Vaucluse, France

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NameVaucluse
TypeDépartement
Coordinates44°N 5.167°E
Located inFrance
Also located inProvence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France    
Contained Places
Commune
Apt
Bédoin
Carpentras
Cavaillon
Crillon-le-Brave
Gordes
L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue
Lacoste
Le Thor
Lourmarin
Mondragon
Oppède
Orange
Pertuis
Roussillon
Sault
Vaison-la-Romaine
Venasque
Inhabited place
Ansouis
Avignon
Beaumes-de-Venise
Bollène
Bonnieux
Bouradière
Bédarrides
Cadenet
Caromb
Caumont-sur-Darance
Courthézon
Coustellet
Cucuron
Entraigues-sur-Sorgue
Entrechaux
Faucon
Grambois
Isle-sur-la-Sorgue
Jonquières
Lançon-Provence
Malaucène
Mazan
Mirabeau
Monteux
Mormoiron
Mornas
Ménerbes
Pernes-les-Fontaines
Piolence
Saignon
Saint Didier
Saint Saturnin-d'Apt
Saint-Christol
Sorgues
Sérignan-du-Comtat
Tour-d'Aigues
Valréas
Vedène
Villelaure
Villes-sur-Auzon
Region
Châteauneuf-du-Pape
Unknown
Caderousse
Vacqueyras
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The Vaucluse ( ; in classical norm or Vau-Cluso in Mistralian norm) is a department in the southeast of France, named after the famous spring, the Fontaine-de-Vaucluse. The name Vaucluse derives from the Latin Vallis Clausis (closed valley) as the valley here ends in a cliff face from which emanates a spring whose origin is so far in and so deep that it remains to be defined.

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History

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Vaucluse was created on 12 August 1793 out of parts of the departments of Bouches-du-Rhône, Drôme, and Basses-Alpes (later renamed Alpes-de-Haute-Provence). The then rural department was, like the nearby city of Lyon, a hotbed of the French Resistance in World War II.

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