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    airport located 27 km (17 miles) northwest of Marseille, on the territory of Marignane, both communes of the Bouches-du-Rhône département in the Provence-Alpes-Côte...
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    de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Marseille, EHESS (in French). EHESS. "Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui"....
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    Provença/Seloun de Provènço, [seˈlu de pʀuˈvɛnsɔ]), commonly known as Salon, is a commune located about 52 km (32 mi) northwest of Marseille in the Bouches-du-Rhône...
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  • Victor-Louis. Essai sur l'histoire politique de la commune de Marseille des origines à la victorie de Charles d'Anjou (1264). Aix-en-Provence, 1926....
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    Cassis (category Communes of Bouches-du-Rhône)
    Cassis (French pronunciation: [kasi]; Occitan: Cassís) is a commune situated east of Marseille in the department of Bouches-du-Rhône in the Provence-Alpes-Côte...
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    Romieg de Provença (classical norm) and Sant Roumié de Prouvènço (Mistralian norm)) is a commune in the Bouches-du-Rhône department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte...
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  • the other independent communes of the metropolitan area (such as Aix-en-Provence) refused to join in with the city of Marseille, which was perceived as...
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    arrondissement of Marseille is an arrondissement of France in the Bouches-du-Rhône department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. It has 21 communes. Its population...
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    Marseille, France was originally founded circa 600 BC as the Greek colony of Massalia (Latin: Massilia) and populated by Greeks from Phocaea (modern Foça...
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    The Paris Commune (French: Commune de Paris, pronounced [kɔ.myn də pa.ʁi]) was a French revolutionary government that seized power in Paris from 18 March...
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  • mynisipal]) is a subdivision of the commune, and is used in the country's three largest cities: Paris, Lyon and Marseille. It functions as an even lower administrative...
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    acres). In metropolitan France the largest commune is the commune of Arles (50,513 inhabitants) near Marseille, the territory of which encompasses most...
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    La Ciotat (category Communes of Bouches-du-Rhône)
    southeasternmost commune of the Aix-Marseille-Provence Metropolis. La Ciotat is located at about 25 km (15.5 mi) to the east of Marseille, at an equal distance from...
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  • part of the University of Aix-Marseille based across the communes of Aix-en-Provence and Marseille in southern France. It had 24,000 students. On 1 January...
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    in Marseille, France, and the city's best-known symbol. The site of a popular Assumption Day pilgrimage, it is the most visited site in Marseille. It...
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    Martigues (category Communes of Bouches-du-Rhône)
    Martegue in classical norm, Lou Martegue in Mistralian norm) is a commune northwest of Marseille. It is part of the Bouches-du-Rhône department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte...
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    populous commune is Marseille, the prefecture. As of 2019, there are 14 communes with more than 20,000 inhabitants: There are 15 more communes with over...
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    Château d'If (category 7th arrondissement of Marseille)
    Paris Commune (1871) Contrary to common belief, the Marquis de Sade was not a prisoner at the château. Island castle Alcatraz Island "Marseille : le Château...
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  • office skyscraper in Marseille La Marseillaise des Blancs, a royalist and Catholic adaptation of the anthem La marseillaise de la Commune, a version of La...
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  • Canton of Marseille-Verduron is a former canton located within the commune of Marseille in the Bouches-du-Rhône department of France. It was created 27...
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    or simply Aix (Occitan: Ais de Provença), is a city and commune in southern France, about 30 km (20 mi) north of Marseille. A former capital of Provence...
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    Carry-le-Rouet (category Communes of Bouches-du-Rhône)
    west of Marseille, on the Côte Bleue, reached via motorway A55 then route D5, at the foot of pine-covered hills. It is part of the Aix-Marseille-Provence...
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    153 communes of the Var department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2020): Métropole d'Aix-Marseille-Provence...
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    Istres (category Communes of Bouches-du-Rhône)
    pronunciation: [istʁ]; Occitan: Istre) is a commune in southern France, some 60 km (38 mi) northwest of Marseille. It is in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur...
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    song acquired its nickname after being sung in Paris by volunteers from Marseille marching to the capital. The song is the first example of the "European...
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    thirteen-track Gare de Lyon building was constructed, designed by the Toulon architect Marius Toudoire and decorated with a large fresco by the Marseille artist Jean-Baptiste...
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    The Canal de Marseille is a major source of drinking water for all of Marseille, the largest city in Provence, France. The canal along its main artery...
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    Marseille-en-Beauvaisis is a railway station located in the commune of Marseille-en-Beauvaisis in the Oise department, France. It is served by TER Hauts-de-France...
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    Allauch (category Communes of Bouches-du-Rhône)
    (French pronunciation: [alo]; Occitan: Alaug) is a French commune situated east of Marseille in the department of Bouches-du-Rhône in the Provence-Alpes-Côte...
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    arrondissement of Marseille (French: 12e arrondissement de Marseille, "douzième", [duzjɛm‿aʁɔ̃dismɑ̃ də maʁsɛj]), commonly known as Marseille 12, is one of...
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