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    known in antiquity as Celto-Ligurians. The Ligures are referred to as Ligyes (Λιγυες) by the Greeks and Ligures (earlier Liguses) by the Romans. According...
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    Italian provinces of Cuneo, Imperia and Savona and the French department of Alpes-Maritimes (south-western slopes). The Ligurian Alps are drained by the Tanaro...
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    "Partition of the Alps", German: Einteilung der Alpen, French: Partition des Alpes) is a classification of the mountain ranges of the Alps, that is primarily...
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    Occitan: [ˈɡap]) is the prefecture of the department of Hautes-Alpes, in the region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, Southeastern France. In 2019, the commune had...
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    of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur and includes the departments of Var, Bouches-du-Rhône, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, as well as parts of Alpes-Maritimes and...
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    History of Provence (category History of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur)
    to the west of the river Durance. The Ligures were more numerous than the Celtic peoples, and the Celto-Ligures eventually shared the territory of Provence...
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    present site of Cassis was first occupied between 600 and 500 BC by the Ligures, who constructed a fortified dwelling at the top of the Baou Redon. These...
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    Alps (redirect from Alpe)
    annual visitors. The English word Alps comes from the Latin Alpes. The Latin word Alpes could possibly come from the adjective albus ("white"), or could...
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    Italian: Mentone [menˈtoːne]) is a commune in the Alpes-Maritimes department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region on the French Riviera, close to...
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    Alpes Maritimes : étude comparative, essai de reconstruction (Thesis). Université de Toulouse 2. Dalbera, Jean-Philippe (1994). Les parlers des Alpes...
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    51 km (32 mi) west of Turin. Susa (Latin: Segusio) was founded by the Ligures. It was the capital of the Segusini (also known as Cottii). In the late...
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    Roquepertuse (category History of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur)
    to light structures identified as a sanctuary attributed to the Celto-Ligures, initially dated to just before the Roman conquest. Officially, the relics...
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  • di studi, Recco 2008, pp. 65-90. Jean-Philippe Dalbera, Les parlers des Alpes-Maritimes. Étude comparative. Essai de reconstruction. London 1994, Pubblicazione...
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    been recruited from the Alpine Ligures, who were peregrini (non-citizens) i.e. the inhabitants of the Alpes Cottiae and Alpes Maritimae. Prominent among the...
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    estimated the strength of the Armée des Alpes at twelve divisions, although at most it had six by June. Armée des Alpes, 10 May: Fortified Sector under the...
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    transl. the name of the place Liguria. The name derives from the ancient Ligures people, although the territory of this people was much larger than the...
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    40% of immigrants live. Other important regions are Rhône-Alpes (Lyon) and Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur (Marseille). The most important individual countries...
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    Alpes Graiae. The cohortes Ligurum were originally raised from the Ligures people of Alpes Maritimae and Liguria regio of NW Italia. Most regiments carried...
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    in the Paleolithic era. During the Iron Age, the site was used by the Ligures, who constructed an oppidum (a fortified village), and then by the Celts...
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    classify Occitan as Iberian Romance. Jean-Philippe Dalbéra. Les parlers des Alpes Maritimes: étude comparative, essai de reconstruction. London: Association...
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    commune in the Alpes-Maritimes department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region of southeastern France. Andon is a small village in the Alpes-Maritimes...
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    autonomous region in northwestern Italy. It is bordered by Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France, to the west, Valais, Switzerland, to the north, and by Piedmont...
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    and then grew within the context of a peninsula dominated by the Gauls, Ligures, Veneti, Camunni and Histri in the North, the Etruscans, Latins, Falisci...
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    Barcelonnette (category Communes of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence)
    of France and a subprefecture in the department of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. It is located in the southern French...
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    the dominion as the province of Alpes Cottiae. His name was first cited in the Arch of Augustus of Susa engraving. Alpes Cottiae (the original Roman province)...
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    that was fortified "against the tribe of the Salyes and against those Ligures who live in the Alps". Greek and Roman antiquities have been found in the...
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    civilization Etruria Samnites Latins Osci Celts Cisalpine Gaul Veneti Ligures Nuragic civilization Umbri Magna Graecia Iapygians Picentes Ancient Rome...
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    civilization Etruria Samnites Latins Osci Celts Cisalpine Gaul Veneti Ligures Nuragic civilization Umbri Magna Graecia Iapygians Picentes Ancient Rome...
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    French territories of the Alpes Maritimes (including the Principality of Monaco) and parts of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, Hautes Alpes and Savoie. The town of...
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    in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in Southeastern France. It is part of Grand Chambéry. Teningen, Germany, since 1984 Vado Ligure, Italy, since 2002 Communes...
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