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24 unusual facts about Maritimes


2013 Open GDF Suez de Cagnes-sur-Mer Alpes-Maritimes

It was the sixteenth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2013 ITF Women's Circuit, offering a total of $100,000 in prize money.

Aiglun, Alpes-Maritimes

At the Treaty of Turin on 24 March 1760, the commune became French (the kingdom of France and that of Sardinia then proceeded to boundary adjustments and therefore there was an exchange of territories).

Andon, Alpes-Maritimes

The cities of the Union of Aix (1382-1387) supported Charles of Duras against Louis I of Anjou.

The village was originally a lordship of Grasse, then of Boniface de Castellane before depending the Count of Provence in 1235 who passed it to Romée de Villeneuve.

The hygienism of the 19th century (based on the findings of Louis Pasteur) created the fashion of staying in Thorenc as a climate station using therapy for hygiene.

The Count of Provence gave the lordship of Andon to Romée de Villeneuve in 1230.

In 1384 and between January and October 1385, a gang leader called Vita de Blois was present at Thorenc who seized the lordship on behalf of the Count of Savoy.

Bonson

Bonson, Alpes-Maritimes, a commune in the department of Alpes-Maritimes, France

Camille Blanc

However, the separate existence and prosperity of the neighbouring French town of Beausoleil may have proved to be Blanc's principal lasting legacy.

Coluche

Less than a year later, in June 1986, Coluche died when his motorcycle crashed into a truck on a road in the commune of Opio in southeastern France.

Contes

Contes, Alpes-Maritimes, a commune in the Alpes-Maritimes department in France

Eddy Stutterheim

Edward "Eddy" Stutterheim (11 August 1908, Amsterdam - April 13, 1977, Opio) was a sailor from the Netherlands, who represented his country as at the 1948 Summer Olympics in Torbay.

Isola, Alpes-Maritimes

Since April 2010, Isola has been officially twinned with Castiglione di Garfagnana.

James Henry Bennett

Menton was connected by rail to Paris in 1869, which greatly increased the Alpes-Maritimes popularity as a destination for visitors.

Jean-Baptiste Sipido

Sipido ended his working life as technical and commercial director of the General Society of Belgian Socialist Cooperatives, later retiring to Cagnes in the Department of Alpes-Maritimes in France.

La Colle, Monaco

It runs directly along the neighboring French towns of Beausoleil, and Cap-d'Ail, as well as the Monégasque Wards of, Les Révoires, Fontvieille, and Moneghetti.

Ligurian Alps

Administratively the range is divided between the Italian provinces of Cuneo, Imperia and Savona and the French department of Alpes-Maritimes (south-western slopes).

Luigi Guardigli

He collaborated also on the mosaic for the façade of the Musée national Fernand Léger in Biot (Alpes-Maritimes).

Mentonasc dialect

It is still spoken by a minority (approximately 10%) in the city of Menton and in the following municipalities: Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, Castellar, Castillon, Gorbio, Sainte-Agnès and Sospel, near the border with Italy.

Ouvrage Rimplas

Rimplas took a small part in France's resistance to the Italian invasion of France in June 1940 against the Italian Livorno Division, which crossed the frontier at Isola.

Palladius of Embrun

During his episcopate he built numerous churches, in Chorges, Sauze, and Rama, as well as sanctuaries dedicated to Saint Martin of Tours, and Saints Vincent, Orontius, and Victor, as well as to Genesius of Arles.

Punta Marguareis

Administratively the Marguareis is divided between the Italian region of Piemonte (province: Cuneo) and the French region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur (department: Alpes-Maritimes).

Stéphane Diagana

On 21 Jan 2011, Diagana was seriously injured in road accident while he was cycling along a road of the Col de Vence in the department of Alpes-Maritimes in southeast France.

Tournefort

Tournefort, a commune in the Alpes-Maritimes département, in France


Alpes Maritimes' 9th constituency

The 9th constituency of Alpes-Maritimes is a French legislative constituency represented in the XIIIth legislature by Michèle Tabarot of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP).

Auribeau-sur-Siagne

The Roman army defeated the Ligurian tribes in 155BC, but it was only after the victory of the emperor Auguste in 14 BC that Rome was able to continue the Via Aurelia as the Via Julia Augusta within Alpes-Maritimes along the Mediterranean coast up to Arles.

Camille Sauvageau

Sur le dévelopement de quelques phéosporées ; Sur quelques algues phéosporées de la rade de Villefranche (Alpes-Maritimes) ; Sur quelques algues phéosporées de Guéthary (Basses-Pyrénées), 1929 - On the development of some phaeospores, etc.

Canadian Junior Hockey League

To determine a National Champion, the winners of each league playdown in three regional championships—the Fred Page Cup (Eastern Region - Maritimes, Quebec, Ottawa District), the Dudley Hewitt Cup (Central Region - Southern Ontario, Northeastern Ontario, Northwestern Ontario), and the Western Canada Cup (Western Region - Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and British Columbia).

Cedres

Jardin botanique "Les Cèdres", often called simply Les Cèdres or the Jardin de la villa "Les Cèdres", is a private botanical garden in Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, Alpes-Maritimes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France

Centre de recherches en géodynamique et astrométrie

It included 28 researchers and as many engineers and technicians located on the Observatory sites of Nice, Grasse and Calern (Caussols).

Chantiers Aéro-Maritimes de la Seine

Chantiers Aéro-Maritimes de la Seine, most usually known as CAMS was a French manufacturer of flying boats, founded in Saint-Ouen in November 1920 by Lawrence Santoni.

Eastern Sports Association

This show would be broadcast across the Maritimes Saturday on the ATV network.

Élisée Maclet

He painted in Orange, Vaison-La Romaine, La Ciotat, Cassis, Golfe Juan, Antibes, Cagnes, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, Ville-Franche, Nice, Menton, San Remo, sending back to Von Frey glowing landscapes and glorious floral still lifes.

Étienne Bellenger

Étienne Bellenger (fl. 1580–84) was a merchant from Rouen, France who, through his trading expeditions, became an important figure in the early exploration of the Maritimes in Canada.

Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University

The Faculty of Medicine is the only medical school in the Maritime Provinces and as such is closely affiliated with the healthcare systems operated by the Government of Nova Scotia, the Government of New Brunswick and the Government of Prince Edward Island.

Fondation Maeght

Fondation Maeght is a museum of modern art situated in Saint-Paul de Vence in the south of France about 25 km from Nice.

French Senate election, 2008

They were divided in the following way: 1 new Senator each for the Ain, Alpes-Maritimes, Bouches-du-Rhône, Drôme, Eure-et-Loir, Haute-Garonne, Gironde, Hérault, and Guyane départements and one in French Polynesia.

Grotte du Vallonnet

The cave of Vallonnet is located on the western slope of Cap Martin, about 800 metres above the Bay of Menton, at Roquebrune-Cap-Martin in the Alpes-Maritimes Department in France.

Internationales Maritimes Museum Hamburg

The Internationales Maritimes Museum Hamburg (International Maritime Museum) is a private museum in the HafenCity quarter of Hamburg, Germany.

Krysta Lynn Scott

Returning to the Maritimes, Hanakowski appeared at a show for East Coast Pro Wrestling's Island Invasion to wrestle Miss Danyah at the North Sydney Forum in Sydney, Nova Scotia on June 1, 2008.

Lucien Callamand

Lucien Callamand born Lucien Marie Pascal Eugène Callamand (April 1, 1888 in Marseille - December 3, 1968 in Nice, Alpes-Maritimes) was one of the earliest French film actors whose career transcended 6 decades of French cinema.

Maritime Noon

It is produced out of the studios of CBHA-FM in the CBC Radio Building at Halifax, Nova Scotia and is simulcast on all CBC Radio One transmitters in the Maritimes.

Nordicity

Using the VAPO, most of Canada outside the Southern Vancouver Island and the Lower Mainland, the Prairies, the Quebec City-Windsor Corridor, and most of the Maritimes exhibits some degree of nordicity.

Prince Eugen of Bavaria

Prince Eugen of Bavaria died on 1 January 1997 at Grasse in the Alpes-Maritimes region of France.

Rail transport in Monaco

A rack railway from La Turbie to Monte Carlo through Beausoleil operated from 1894 to 1932, with a station (Monte Carlo) serving the Prinicpality.

Sealink

Services to France, Belgium and the Netherlands were also run by Sealink UK as part of the Sealink consortium which also used ferries owned by French national railways, the SNCF, the Belgian Maritime Transport Authority, Regie voor Maritiem Transport / Regie des transports maritimes (RMT/RTM) and the Dutch Stoomvaart Maatschappij Zeeland (Zeeland Steamship Company).

Stanton Davis Kirkham

He was born in Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France, the only child of Major Murray S. Davis (Commander, 8th Calvalry, Troop A, Camp Winfield Scott, Nevada, 1867) and Julia Edith Kirkham Davis, daughter of Gen. Ralph Wilson Kirkham, Union Army general, who adopted Kirkham and brought him to the United States.

William Chawner

William Chawner (born February 1848 at Macclesfield, Cheshire, died 29 March 1911, at Vence, Alpes Maritimes) was an educational reformer and the first layman to be appointed as Master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge.