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Nice [a] (/ n iː s / NEESS; French pronunciation: ⓘ) is a city in and the prefecture of the Alpes-Maritimes department in France. The Nice agglomeration extends far beyond the administrative city limits, with a population of nearly one million [4] [3] on an area of 744 km 2 (287 sq mi). [3]
The Capture of Nice occurred on September 28, 1792, during the French Revolutionary Wars between the First French Republic and Kingdom of Sardinia. Part of the Italian Campaign during the French Revolution, the French were led by General Jacques Bernard d'Anselme who was tasked to occupy the County of Nice . [ 1 ]
1981 - June: 1981 Tour de France cycling race departs from Nice. 1982 Canton of Nice-12 , 13 , and 14 created. [7] Nice becomes part of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. 1984 - Palais des Congrès Acropolis built. 1988 - Le Standard de Nice newspaper begins publication. 1991 - Gare de Nice CP opens.
In 1864, six years after Nice became part of France following the Second Italian War of Independence the first railway was completed, making Nice and the Riviera accessible to visitors from all over Europe. One hundred thousand visitors arrived in 1865. By 1874, residents of foreign enclaves in Nice, most of whom were British, numbered 25,000.
The Treaty of Turin (Italian: Trattato di Torino; French: Traité de Turin) concluded between France and Piedmont-Sardinia on 24 March 1860 is the instrument by which the Duchy of Savoy and the County of Nice were annexed to France, ending the centuries-old Italian rule of the region.
Bastille Day celebrations on beach below Promenade des Anglais, 2014. On the morning before the attack, French President François Hollande said the national state of emergency, put in place after the November 2015 Paris attacks, would end after the 2016 Tour de France finished on 26 July 2016. [18]
The region is roughly coterminous with the former French province of Provence, with the addition of the following adjacent areas: the former papal territory of Avignon, known as Comtat Venaissin; the former Sardinian-Piedmontese County of Nice annexed in 1860, whose coastline is known in English as the French Riviera and in French as the Côte d'Azur; and the southeastern part of the former ...
The County of Nice as part of the Savoyard State.. Nice became part of the domains of the House of Savoy on 28 September 1388, with which Amadeus VII, Count of Savoy, taking advantage of the internal struggles in Provence, negotiated with Giovanni Grimaldi, baron of Boglio (governor of Nice and the Eastern Provence) the passage of Nice and the Ubaye Valley to the Savoy domains, with the name ...