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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 145. Chapters: Former provinces of France, Normandy, Brittany, Burgundy, Aquitaine, Lorraine, Alsace, Champagne, Anjou, Provence, Franche-Comte, Gascony, Languedoc, Poitou, Touraine, Artois, Dauphine, Picardy, Berry, Avignon, Roussillon, Guyenne, Aunis, Beaujolais, County of Flanders, Corsica, County of Foix, Duchy of Normandy, Pays de Caux, Lower Navarre, List of Ancien Regime dioceses of France, Quatre-Vallees, Soule, Auvergne, Labourd, Maine, Dombes, Bearn, County of La Marche, Bigorre, Ile-de-France, Saintonge, Generalite, Couserans, Armagnac, Comtat Venaissin, Bourbonnais, Nebouzan, Limousin, Bresse, Champagne, France, Quercy, Orleanais, Godefroy family, Lyonnais, Ponthieu, Perigord, Maconnais, Angoumois, Nivernais, Agenais, Perche, Vermandois, Three Bishoprics, Astarac, Comminges, Gevaudan, Gatinais, Franc-Lyonnais, Rouergue, Pays d'Auge, Pays d'Ouche, Forez, Bugey, Bessin, Roumois, Lieuvin, Barrois. Excerpt: Provence (French pronunciation: (pro-VAWNCE); Provencal: Provenca in classical norm or Prouvenco in Mistralian norm) is a region of south eastern France on the Mediterranean adjacent to Italy. It is part of the administrative region of Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur. The traditional region of Provence comprises the departements of Var, Vaucluse, Bouches-du-Rhone, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, Alpes-Maritimes and parts of Hautes-Alpes. The Romans formed this region into their Gallia Transalpina, the first Roman provincia outside the Alps. From thus, it derives its name today. The entrance to the Cosquer Cave, decorated with paintings of penguins, bison, seals and outlines of hands dating to 27,000 to 19,000 BC, is located 37 meters under the surface of the Calanque de Morgiou near Cassis. A bronze-age dolmen (2500 to 900 BC) near DraguignanThe coast of Provence has some the earliest known sites of human habitation in Europe. Pri...
