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The 14th century was a terrible time in Provence, and all of Europe: the population of Provence had been about 400,000 people; the Black Death (1348–1350) killed fifteen thousand people in Arles, half the population of the city, and greatly reduced the population of the whole region.
List of political and geographic subdivisions by total area, comparing continents, countries, and first-level administrative country subdivisions. List of first-level administrative divisions by population; List of FIPS region codes in FIPS 10-4, withdrawn from the Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) in 2008
Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur (PACA) Provençal: Provença-Aups-Còsta d'Azur (Prouvènço-Aup-Costo d'Azur) 93 Marseille: Former historical province of Provence and County of Nice annexed by France in 1860. Rhône-Alpes: Rhône-Alpes: Arpitan: Rôno-Arpes Occitan: Ròse Aups: 82 Lyon: Created for Lyon from Dauphiné and Lyonnais provinces and ...
Map showing the march and county Provence and the county of Forcalquier as parts of the Kingdom of Burgundy-Arles in the 12th and 13th centuries. The land of Provence has a history quite separate from that of any of the larger nations of Europe.
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 ...
A map of the Pirkanmaa, the regional province in Finland, with the different colored sub-regions. In many countries, a province is a relatively small non-constituent level of sub-national government, such as a county in the United Kingdom. In China, a province is a sub-national region within a unitary state; this means that a province can be ...
Administratively the range belongs to the French departments of Vaucluse, Alpes-Maritimes and Alpes-de-Haute-Provence. The western slopes of the range are drained by the Rhone river through the Durance and other tributaries while its south-eastern part is drained by the Var and several smaller rivers that flow directly to the Mediterranean Sea.
Map showing the march and county Provence and the county of Forcalquier as parts of the Kingdom of Burgundy-Arles in the 12th and 13th centuries.. The County of Provence was a largely autonomous medieval state that eventually became incorporated into the Kingdom of France in 1481. [1]