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Exilles (Latin
Latin

Latin is an Italic language, historically spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. Through the Military history of the Roman Empire, Latin spread throughout the Mediterranean and a large part of Europe....
: Scingomagus) is a comune
Comune

In Italy, the comune, is the basic administrative division of both provinces and regions, and may be properly approximated in casual speech by the English word township or municipality....
 (municipality) in the Province of Turin
Province of Turin

The Province of Turin is a Provinces of Italy in the Piedmont region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Turin.It has an area of 6,830 km?, and a total population of 2,277,686 ....
 in the Italian
Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
 region Piedmont
Piedmont

Piedmont is one of the 20 Regions of Italy. It has an area of 25,399 km? and a population of about 4.4 million. The capital is Turin. The main local dialect is Piedmontese....
, located about 60 km west of Turin
Turín

Tur?n is a municipality in the Ahuachap?n Department Departments of El Salvador of El Salvador....
, on the border with France. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 285 and an area of 44.4 km².

The municipality of Exilles contains the frazioni
Frazione

A frazione, in Italy, is the name given in administrative law to a type of territorial subdivision of a comune; for other administrative divisions, see municipio, circoscrizione, quartiere....
 (subdivisions, mainly villages and hamlets) Deveys, Cels, San Colombano, and Champbons.

Exilles borders the following municipalities: Bardonecchia
Bardonecchia

File:Torino location map winter olympics.PNGBardonecchia is an Italy town and comune located in the Province of Turin, in the Piedmont region, in the western part of Susa Valley....
, Bramans
Bramans

Bramans is a town and Communes of France in the Savoie Departments of France, in France.See alsoCommunes of the Savoie department...
 (France), Chiomonte
Chiomonte

Chiomonte is a comune in the Province of Turin in the Italy region Piedmont, located about 60 km west of Turin. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 992 and an area of 26.7 km?....
, Giaglione
Giaglione

Giaglione is a comune in the Province of Turin in the Italy region Piedmont, located about 60 km west of Turin, on the border with France. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 681 and an area of 33.6 km?....
, Oulx
Oulx

Oulx is a comune in the Province of Turin in the Italy region Piedmont, located about 70 km west of Turin, in the Susa Valley on the border with France....
, Pragelato
Pragelato

File:Condominio alpino.JPGFile:Pragelato estate.JPG File:Pragelato inverno.jpgPragelato is a comune in the Province of Turin in the Italy region Piedmont, located about 60 km west of Turin....
, Salbertrand
Salbertrand

Salbertrand is a comune in the Province of Turin in the Italy region Piedmont, located about 60 km west of Turin. As of 31 December, 2004, it had a population of 522 and an area of 40.9 km?....
, and Usseaux
Usseaux

Usseaux is a comune in the Province of Turin in the Italy region Piedmont, located about 50 km west of Turin. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 190 and an area of 38.5 km?....
.

ancients considered Exilles the first place in Italy coming from Gaul
Gaul

Gaul is the name used for the region of Western Europe comprising part of present day northern Italy, France, Belgium, western Switzerland and the parts of the Netherlands and Germany on the west bank of the River Rhine....
 over the Alpine passes.






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Exilles (Latin
Latin

Latin is an Italic language, historically spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. Through the Military history of the Roman Empire, Latin spread throughout the Mediterranean and a large part of Europe....
: Scingomagus) is a comune
Comune

In Italy, the comune, is the basic administrative division of both provinces and regions, and may be properly approximated in casual speech by the English word township or municipality....
 (municipality) in the Province of Turin
Province of Turin

The Province of Turin is a Provinces of Italy in the Piedmont region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Turin.It has an area of 6,830 km?, and a total population of 2,277,686 ....
 in the Italian
Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
 region Piedmont
Piedmont

Piedmont is one of the 20 Regions of Italy. It has an area of 25,399 km? and a population of about 4.4 million. The capital is Turin. The main local dialect is Piedmontese....
, located about 60 km west of Turin
Turín

Tur?n is a municipality in the Ahuachap?n Department Departments of El Salvador of El Salvador....
, on the border with France. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 285 and an area of 44.4 km².

The municipality of Exilles contains the frazioni
Frazione

A frazione, in Italy, is the name given in administrative law to a type of territorial subdivision of a comune; for other administrative divisions, see municipio, circoscrizione, quartiere....
 (subdivisions, mainly villages and hamlets) Deveys, Cels, San Colombano, and Champbons.

Exilles borders the following municipalities: Bardonecchia
Bardonecchia

File:Torino location map winter olympics.PNGBardonecchia is an Italy town and comune located in the Province of Turin, in the Piedmont region, in the western part of Susa Valley....
, Bramans
Bramans

Bramans is a town and Communes of France in the Savoie Departments of France, in France.See alsoCommunes of the Savoie department...
 (France), Chiomonte
Chiomonte

Chiomonte is a comune in the Province of Turin in the Italy region Piedmont, located about 60 km west of Turin. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 992 and an area of 26.7 km?....
, Giaglione
Giaglione

Giaglione is a comune in the Province of Turin in the Italy region Piedmont, located about 60 km west of Turin, on the border with France. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 681 and an area of 33.6 km?....
, Oulx
Oulx

Oulx is a comune in the Province of Turin in the Italy region Piedmont, located about 70 km west of Turin, in the Susa Valley on the border with France....
, Pragelato
Pragelato

File:Condominio alpino.JPGFile:Pragelato estate.JPG File:Pragelato inverno.jpgPragelato is a comune in the Province of Turin in the Italy region Piedmont, located about 60 km west of Turin....
, Salbertrand
Salbertrand

Salbertrand is a comune in the Province of Turin in the Italy region Piedmont, located about 60 km west of Turin. As of 31 December, 2004, it had a population of 522 and an area of 40.9 km?....
, and Usseaux
Usseaux

Usseaux is a comune in the Province of Turin in the Italy region Piedmont, located about 50 km west of Turin. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 190 and an area of 38.5 km?....
.

Geographical significance

The ancients considered Exilles the first place in Italy coming from Gaul
Gaul

Gaul is the name used for the region of Western Europe comprising part of present day northern Italy, France, Belgium, western Switzerland and the parts of the Netherlands and Germany on the west bank of the River Rhine....
 over the Alpine passes. As Scingomagus (Greek
Greek language

Greek is an Indo-European languages native to the southern Balkan peninsula, the language of the Greek people. It forms an independent branch within Indo-European....
 , Exilles is first mentioned by Strabo
Strabo

Strabo was a Ancient Greeks history, geography and philosophy....
 (iv.), who says, when he is speaking of one of the passes of the Alps, that from Ebrodunum (modern Embrun
Embrun, Hautes-Alpes

Embrun is a commune in France in the Hautes-Alpes Departments of France in the Provence-Alpes-C?te d'Azur region in southeastern France....
) on the Gallic
Gaul

Gaul is the name used for the region of Western Europe comprising part of present day northern Italy, France, Belgium, western Switzerland and the parts of the Netherlands and Germany on the west bank of the River Rhine....
 side through Brigantium (modern Briançon
Briançon

Brian?on is a communes of France in the Hautes-Alpes Departments of France in the Provence-Alpes-C?te d'Azur region in southeastern France. It is the Subprefectures in France of the department....
) and Scingomagus and the pass of the Alps to Ocelum, the limit of the land of Cottius
Cottius

Marcus Julius Cottius was king of the Ligures inhabiting the mountainous region now known as the Cottian Alps early in the 1st century BC He was the son and successor of King Donnus, who had previously opposed but later made peace with Julius Caesar....
 (the Alpes Cottiae
Alpes Cottiae

Alpes Cottiae was a Roman province of the Roman Empire, one of three small provinces straddling the Alps between modern France and Italy. Its name survives in the modern Cottian Alps....
) is 99 miles; and at Scingomagus Italy begins: and the distance from Scincomagus to Ocelum is 27 miles. Pliny the Elder
Pliny the Elder

Gaius Plinius Secundus , better known as Pliny the Elder, was an ancient author, naturalist or natural philosopher and naval and military commander of some importance who wrote Natural History ....
 also (ii. 108) makes Italy extend to the Alps at Scincgmagus, and then he gives the breadth of Gallia from Scingomagus to the Pyrenees
Pyrenees

The Pyrenees are a mountain range in southwest Europe that form a natural border between France and Spain. They separate the Iberian Peninsula from the rest of continental Europe, and extend for about from the Bay of Biscay to the Mediterranean Sea ....
 and Illiberis
Illiberis

In Roman times Illiberis was the name of 2 places:-- *Illiberis or *Iliberris, Hispania Baetica, Pliny's Illiberi Liberini, modern Granada....
.

Demographic evolution

The number of inhabitants of Exilles has steadily declined since at least 1861.

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