Alpes-Maritimes
Overview
 
Alpes-Maritimes is a department in the extreme southeast corner of France.
was created by Octavian as a Roman
Ancient Rome
Ancient Rome was a thriving civilization that grew on the Italian Peninsula as early as the 8th century BC. Located along the Mediterranean Sea and centered on the city of Rome, it expanded to one of the largest empires in the ancient world....

 military district in 14 BC
Anno Domini
and Before Christ are designations used to label or number years used with the Julian and Gregorian calendars....

, and became a full Roman province in the middle of the 1st century with its capital first at Cemenelum (today Cimiez
Cimiez
Cimiez is a neighborhood in Nice, southern France. The area contains the Musée Matisse and the ruins of Cemenelum, capital of the Ancient Roman province Alpes Maritimae on the Ligurian coast...

, a neighborhood in Nice
Nice
Nice is the fifth most populous city in France, after Paris, Marseille, Lyon and Toulouse, with a population of 348,721 within its administrative limits on a land area of . The urban area of Nice extends beyond the administrative city limits with a population of more than 955,000 on an area of...

) and subsequently at Embrun
Embrun, Hautes-Alpes
Embrun is a commune in the Hautes-Alpes department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France.-Description:...

. At its greatest extent in AD 297 , the province reached north to Digne and Briançon
Briançon
Briançon a commune in the Hautes-Alpes department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France. It is a sub-prefecture of the department....

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A first French of Alpes-Maritimes existed in the same area from 1793 to 1814.
 
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