Nice
Details
- Names
Nice
Nizza
Nicea Liguriae
Nikaia
- Place Type
- inhabited place
- Description
- Conquered by Romans 1st century CE; ruled by Saracens 10th cen.; under counts of Savoy 1388-1860, although captured and held by French several times; pillaged by Turks 1543; ceded to France 1860; birthplace of Garibaldi; leading resort city of French Riviera.
- Authority
- Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Source
- ARLIS/NA: Ancient Site Names (1995); Canadian Centre for Architecture database (1987-); Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961); Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988); Michel: Dictionnaire des Communes (1984); Times Atlas of the World (1994); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988);
- Born
Hyacinthe-Louis-Victor-Jean-Baptiste Aubry-Lecomte (French, 1787-1858)
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