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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...
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    six departments in Southeastern France: Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, Alpes-Maritimes, Bouches-du-Rhône, Hautes-Alpes, Var and Vaucluse. It is bounded to the...
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    (French pronunciation: [bʁo]; Occitan: Brau) is a commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in southeastern France. The village is located at 950m...
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    region 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...
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    Moustiers-Sainte-Marie (category Communes of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence)
    Maria), or simply Moustiers, is a commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region of Southeastern France. It is...
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    Barcelonnette (category Communes of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence)
    de Provença, also Barcilona; obsolete Italian: Barcellonetta) is a commune of France and a subprefecture in the department of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence...
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    Digne-les-Bains (category Alpes-de-Haute-Provence communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia)
    the Mistralian norm), is the prefecture of the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region of Southeastern France. As of...
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    Provençal Occitan: Castelana) is a commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in Southeastern France. With...
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    Thorame-Haute (French pronunciation: [tɔʁam ot]; Occitan: Torama Auta) is a commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in southeastern France. Thorame-Haute...
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    Seyne (redirect from Seyne-les-Alpes)
    [sɛn]; Vivaro-Alpine: Sèina) is a commune in Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, a department of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in south-east France. It is...
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    including Arausa, Arausia, Arausona (Dalmatia) and the nearby Oraison (Alpes-de-Haute-Provence). Roman Orange was founded in 35 BC by veterans of the second legion...
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    Tartonne (category Communes of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence)
    pronunciation: [taʁtɔn]; Occitan: Tartona) is a commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in southeastern France. The name of the inhabitants...
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    Massif du Mercantour-Argentera (category Geography of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence)
    Maritime Alps located astride the French departments of Alpes-Maritimes and Alpes-de-Haute-Provence and the Italian region of Piedmont. The name of the massif...
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    Villefranche-sur-Mer (category Communes of Alpes-Maritimes)
    maˈrittima]) is a resort town in the Alpes-Maritimes department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region on the French Riviera and is located south-west of...
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    (French: Préalpes de Digne) are a massif in the southern part of the French Prealps located in the department of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence. The massif extends...
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  • university located in the Provence region of southern France. It was founded in 1409 when Louis II of Anjou, Count of Provence, petitioned the Pisan Antipope...
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    Maréchal de Camp, Camille de Rossi 1ére Bataillon de Grenadiers des Basses-Alpes — Entrevaux and Colmars 1ére Bataillon de Grenadiers des Hautes-Alpes — Manosque...
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  • Var, Bouches-du-Rhône, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, as well as parts of Alpes-Maritimes and Vaucluse. The original comté de Provence extended from the west...
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    covered by the Italian occupation: Alpes-Maritimes, Basses-Alpes (Alpes-de-Haute-Provence since 1970), Hautes-Alpes and Savoie. In addition, a demilitarised...
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  • French province Provence, (now in Alpes-de-Haute-Provence), and was the brother of Gaspard Abeille. Abeille's most famous work was Histoire des Os ("Description...
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    2nd Narbonensis, Novempopulanie, Sequanorum, Viennensis, Alpes Cottiarum, Alpes Maritimae, Alpes Graiae et Poeninae. These provinces were subdivided into...
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  • Jean Proal (category People from Alpes-de-Haute-Provence)
    Artois Presses Université Autour de Jean Proal, artistes d'hier et d'aujourd'hui on Archives des Alpes-de-haute-Provence Jean Proal (1904-1969) on Sabenca...
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    also in 1604 that he assumed the name Peiresc after a domain in Alpes-de-Haute-Provence (now spelled Peyresq) which he had inherited from his father, although...
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    Toulon (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Mediterranean coast, with a major naval base. Located in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region, and the Provence province, Toulon is the prefecture of the Var department...
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    1675, he brought Joseph Clérissy from Moustiers-Sainte-Marie (Alpes-de-Haute-Provence) and installed him in his property of Saint-Jean du Désert, launching...
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    Pont Saint-Bénézet (category Transport in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur)
    L'Abbaye Saint-André-lès-Avignon: histoire, archéologie, rayonnement (in French). Mane, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, France: Alpes de Lumière. pp. 15–22. ISBN 978-2-906162-54-9...
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  • ‘’La guerre en Provence, 1944-1945’’ (The War in Provence, 1944-1945), 1998, p.185 Charles Rickard, ‘’La Savoie dans la Résistance: Haute-Savoie, Savoie’’...
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    Mistral (wind) (category Provence)
    and on the coast of Provence. It is caused by a thermal depression over the interior of Provence (The Var and Alpes de Haute-Provence), created when the...
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    Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (in the southern half, namely almost all the Drôme and the Ardèche, the southern Isère and some fringes of the Loire) and Provence-Alpes-Côte...
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    Dauphiné (category History of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur)
    corresponded to that of the present departments of Isère, Drôme and Hautes-Alpes. The Dauphiné was originally the Dauphiné of Viennois. In the 12th century...
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