Alpes-Maritimes (Occitan: Aups Maritims) is a department in the extreme southeast corner of France.
Alpes Maritimae was created by Octavian as a Roman military district in 14 BCE, and became a full Roman province in the middle of the 1 century CE with its capital first at Cemenelum (today Cimiez, a neighborhood in Nice) and subsequently at Embrun. At its greatest extent in 297 CE, the province reached north to Digne and Briançon.
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Alpes-Maritimes
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Region:
ISO 3166-2 Code:
- FR-06
Contains:
- Nice
- Grasse
- Menton
- Villeneuve-Loubet
- Saint-Laurent-du-Var
- Villefranche-sur-Mer
- Roquebrune-Cap-Martin
- Vence
- Èze
- Puget-Théniers
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