County of Nice (Traditional province, France)

Comté de Nice

Last modified: 2005-04-23 by ivan sache
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• History of the County of Nice
• Flag of the County of Nice

See also:

• France
• Traditional provinces
• Region
  • Provence-Alpes-Côte-d'Azur
• Department
  • Alpes-Maritimes
    
    
• Savoy
• Italy
• Piemonte (Piedmont)
• Monaco

Other site of interest:

• Vexillologie Provençale by Dominique Cureau

History of the County of Nice

The County of Nice (Italian, Nizza) is the southeasternmost part of France. It is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea (south), the Alps mountains (north and east) and the river Var (west). The sea shore is called Côte d'Azur, a nickname coined in 1887 by the poet Stephen Liégeard.

Remains of human settlement have been found on the fossil beach of Terra Amata, now in the center of the city of Nice. This site dates back to 400,000 years. The area was later occupied by the Ligures, who mixed with the Celts in the VIIIth century B.P. and constituted the Celto-Ligurian civilisation.

In the IVth century B.P., a c