Alpes-Maritimes
The department of Alpes- Maritimes [ ˌ alp maʀitim ] is a French department of atomic number 06 It is in the southeast of the country in the region Provence- Alpes- Côte d' Azur and is named after the Maritime Alps, which in its territory the border mountains to Italy form.
- 7.1 Hiking
- 7.2 Winter Sports
Geography
The department is part of Provence, ranging from the Côte d'Azur up in the Alpine hinterland. It is bordered in the west by the department of Var, on the northwest by the department of Alpes- de -Haute -Provence, in the east and north of Italy (Piedmont and Liguria ), and on the south by the Mediterranean Sea, where it encloses the Principality of Monaco. Capital city is Nice, more well-known cities are Cannes and Grasse.
Coat of arms
Description: silver on black Three mountain with blue waves a red eagle with the same colored crown.
History
The Romans had BC founded in year 7 a province Alpes Maritimae. Their capital was Cemenelum, today Cimiez, a suburb of Nice. During their greatest extension end of the 3rd century, the province also Digne and Briançon included, their capital was moved to Embrun.
A department Alpes-maritimes, with its capital Nice existed already in France from 1793 to 1815. Meanwhile boundaries differed from those of today's departments, especially since it included Monaco and San Remo.
The current department of Alpes-Maritimes was created in 1860, when the county of Nice came to France. It was from the county that formed the Nice district, and a part of the Var, which formed the Arrondissement Grasse shaped. The latter explains why the river Var département of the same name does not flow through: he made before the border between France and the county of Nice, but today the border between the two arrondissements.
In 1947 the territory of the department of Alpes- Maritimes was expanded to include the communities Tende and La Brigue whose inhabitants had voted in the same year in a referendum for the connection to France and Italy therefore had to cede the two villages. So went the final schism of Provence, which had originated with the separation of Nice and its territory in 1388, to the end.
Population
Language
The official language is French. Due to the history of the county of Nice, which was separated administratively from the Provence 1388-1860, a dialect of the Occitan language is still spoken in Nice and the surrounding area, which has a shape and altprovenzalische Nissart is called. In the alpine parts of the Territory ( north ) is Alpinprovenzalisch ( Gavot ) is spoken, while in the West has yet to hear the Maritimprovenzalische.