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If the region was inhabited since prehistoric times, it was around the 5th century BC that Greeks from Marseille, the Phocaeans, settled on the site of the current Old Nice, called Nikaïa (the Victorious in Greek).
Then the Romans settled on the hill of Cimiez as well as that of the castle, which formed the Upper Town.
From the year 1000 to the 14th century, the history of Nice is linked to that of the county of Provence until in 1388 the city and its region separated from it to join Savoy and become the county of Nice.
It was from the 13th century that the lower town developed: the Upper Town was definitively abandoned in the 16th century when the Duke of Savoy Emmanuel Philinert transformed it into a fortress to better protect the town.
With the referendum of 1860 Nice is finally attached to France. The city now has about 350,000 inhabitants.
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