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1. Southern France is the home of the Rhone Valley, Provence, and the Languedoc.
2. Southern France was then largely absorbed in the royal domains. (Web site)
3. In southern France, the French were allowed an army.
4. In southern France, a common apéritif is Pastis which is another anise-based drink, with commonly found brands in France being Ricard, Pernod and Pastis 51.
5. Italy invaded southern France, the territories of Savoy and Nice to given to Italy by the newly formed Vichy France. (Web site)

Languedocien

1. Attempts to standardize Languedocien for all languages of southern France have not been accepted by speakers of those languages. (Web site)

Languedoc Wine

1. Languedoc wine, including the vin de pays labeled Vin de Pays d'Oc, is produced in southern France.

Le Castellet

1. This is to mark the foundation of the worldwide "SLR. Club" at the Circuit Paul Ricard in Le Castellet, southern France. (Web site)

Cannes

1. Cassis was once a small fishing village that retained the purity of southern France without the glitz and glamour of neighboring Nice, Cannes and St. Tropez.

Languedoc-Roussillon Region

1. Warm region minor grape widely grown in the Languedoc-Roussillon region of southern France. (Web site)

Bargemon

1. Houses for sale in Lorgues, in Bargemon, in the Var region of southern France. (Web site)

Rhine

1. The alliance allowed Henry II to push for French conquests towards the Rhine, while a Franco-Ottoman fleet defended southern France.

Garonne

1. The Ariège is a 170 km long river in southern France, right tributary of the Garonne.

Aveyron River

1. Carcassonne 12 Aveyron is a département in southern France named after the Aveyron River. (Web site)

Marsanne

1. Marsanne is likely native to the northern Rhône Valley, but is planted widely across southern France.

Clairette

1. Clairette, white grape that is widely cultivated in southern France. (Web site)

Operation Dragoon

1. During World War II, Operation Span was a deception operation in support of the 1944 invasion of southern France (Operation Dragoon). (Web site)

Languedoc

1. Rennes Le Chateau, is located in Languedoc, France an unspoiled area of southern France. (Web site)

Troubadours

1. The music of the troubadours becomes popular in southern France. (Web site)
2. Southern France gave birth to Provençal literature, which is best known for troubadours who sang of courtly love. (Web site)

Occitan

1. The Aveyron (Occitan: Avairon) is a 250 km long river in southern France, right tributary of the Tarn River. (Web site)
2. The Gers (Occitan: Gers) is a 178 km long river in southern France, left tributary of the Garonne.
3. Landes (Occitan: Lanas) is a département in southern France. (Web site)

August

1. In Brittany, southern France, and the area of the Loire and Paris, French Resistance forces greatly aided the pursuit to the Seine in August.
2. On the coast of Southern France it is too warm in July and August to drink red wine. (Web site)

Astronomer

1. Michel Henon was an astronomer at Nice observatory in southern France.

Predominantly

1. Fraxinet (Arabic, Farakhshanit) was the site of a tenth century Muslim (predominantly of Berber origin) base near modern St. Tropez, in southern France.
2. Tannat grapes before ripening Tannat vines in August Tannat is a red wine grape, predominantly grown in southern France. (Web site)

East

1. Within a century of the Prophet's death, Muslim armies had reached southern France in the west and northern India in the east. (Web site)

Semi-Classic Grape

1. Semi-classic grape commonly used for making red wines in Southern France and Spain. (Web site)

California

1. Obscure at best and probably better known in California than anywhere else, although its origins point to southern France. (Web site)

Name

1. It is grown extensively throughout southern France, and, under the name of the Mataro, also in Spain. (Web site)
2. Clairette is a frequently used name for white grape varieties in southern France. (Web site)

Town

1. Glanis was a Gaulish god associated with a healing spring at the town of Glanum in the Alpilles mountains of Provence in southern France. (Web site)

Small Village

1. Montaillou is a small village and commune in southern France. (Web site)

People

1. They found that in southern France and northern Italy, locally raised crops are exactly what people expect to find in their market any time of year.

Lebanon

1. Semi-classic grape widely grown in southern France, Italy and also in the Lebanon. (Web site)

Palestine

1. Egeria, a noble woman from southern France, spent several years as a pilgrim in the East, traveling to Egypt, Palestine, Syria, and Asia Minor.

Jews

1. In 1896, this seaport of southern France had about 5,000 Jews in a population of 420,300, but it had a Jewish colony as early as the fifth century.
2. Alois Brunner and the SS enter Nice, in southern France, to round-up and arrest all Jews in Nice and the surrounding regions.

Spacious

1. Gite des Cathares is a spacious, beautifully decorated self-catering gite in Southern France with three fully self-contained apartments and a terrace.

French

1. You will find property for sale in southern France to be very, well, French.

Lorraine

1. The foremost among them, Peter the Hermit, traversed Southern France to the confines of Spain and Lorraine and went along the Rhine. (Web site)
2. Leeghwater, by the way, also drained wetlands in southern France, Holstein in northern Germany and Lorraine. (Web site)

World

1. Some of the oldest works of art in the world, such as the cave paintings at Lascaux in southern France, are datable to shortly after this migration.

Extremely Popular

1. In southern France where rosy`s are extremely popular, rosy`s are often made from grenache. (Web site)

Allied Invasion

1. Later in 1707, Prince Eugene led an allied invasion of southern France from Italy, but was stalled by the French army. (Web site)

Invasion

1. The composition of the forces in Italy had changed again with the withdrawal of the French forces for the invasion of southern France, Operation Dragoon.
2. Operation Dragoon, the invasion of southern France in August 1944 was an almost entirely American affair. (Web site)
3. Edward the Black Prince, son of Edward III of England, led an invasion of southern France, defeating and capturing John at the Battle of Poitiers (1356).

Innocent

1. Innocent launched the Fourth Crusade, which captured Constantinople, and the Albigensian Crusade, which attempted to suppress heresy in southern France. (Web site)

Pontificate

1. In 1309, Pope Clement V, due to political considerations, moved to Avignon in southern France and exercised his pontificate there.

Sicily

1. The French and English sailed from southern France, stopped over the winter of 1190-1191 in Sicily, then reached Acre in midyear.

Aragon

1. Alfonso annexed Aragon in the 10th century and expanded its control over southern France.

Goths

1. The Goths carried this style to Italy, southern France and Spain. (Web site)
2. In it catalanenses (Catalans) appears opposite gots (" Goths "), referring to the people of what is now southern France.

Algeria

1. It seems to do best in windy climates like Southern France, and in parts of Spain and Algeria.

Tunisia

1. In response to the landings, and Vichy's inability to defend itself, German troops occupied southern France and the Vichy colony of Tunisia.

Part

1. Operation Dragoon was the Allied invasion of southern France, on 15 August 1944, as part of World War II. The invasion took place between Toulon and Cannes.

Fourteenth Century

1. In southern France a Feast of Saint Anne was celebrated as early as the fourteenth century. (Web site)

Catalan

1. Catalan is closely related to Occitan (Provençal), a language spoken in southern France.
2. Catalan is related to the Occitan language of southern France and to Spanish. (Web site)
3. Catalan is most closely related to a group of languages spoken in the vast linguistic region of Southern France known as Occitania. (Web site)

Vichy

1. By the end of June 1940 the German army had overrun northern France and installed a puppet government at Vichy in southern France. (Web site)

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1. World > Countries > European Union > France
2. Science > Geography > Regions > Provence
3. Northern Italy
4. Cooking > Foods > Fruit > Grenache
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