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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.
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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 ...
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 ...
Formerly part of the province of Provence, it had a population of 164,308 in 2019, [3] which makes it the 8th least populated department and the 94th most populated French department. Alpes-de-Haute-Provence's main cities are Digne-les-Bains , Manosque, Sisteron, Barcelonnette, Castellane and Forcalquier.
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.
During this long period of wars and banditry in Provence, the population retreated to walled cities, maritime trade was rare, and little new art or architecture, other than fortification, was created. The Provençal language was formed, closer to Latin than the French spoken in northern France. In the 11th century Provençal terms began to ...
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.