The department of the Rhone delta (13) is a department French of the area Provence-Alp-Coast of Azure. Its inhabitants are the Buccorhodaniens.

History

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The department was created with the French revolution, the March 4th 1790, pursuant to the law of the December 22nd 1789, starting from part of the province of Provence, as well as few principalities (Orange, Martigues, Lambesc).

Wider than today, it lost all the part of its territory located at the north of the Durance at the time of the creation of the Département of Vaucluse, including in particular Orange and Apt.

Policy

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• List of the deputies of the Rhone delta

• List of the senators of the Rhone delta
• List of the general advisers of the Rhone delta
• List of the prefects of the Rhone delta

Geography

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The Rhone delta belongs to the Région Provence-Alp-Coast of Azure. They are frontier with the departments of the Gard, Vaucluse and the Var.

The most important city:

• Marseilles, prefecture of department and area

Other cities:

• Aix-en-Provence, seat of the vice-chancellorship
• Aubagne (town of birth of Marcel Pagnol)
• Arles, Roman city
• Blackcurrant (the Creeks)
• Cuges-the-Pines
• Living room of Provence
• Istres, air base and under prefecture
• Marignane (Airport of Marseilles Provence)
• Martigues, 4th city of the department. 1st petrochemical pole European
• Vitrolles

Principal rivers:

• the river the Rhone and its delta (the the Camargue)
• its affluent the the Durance

Mountainous solid masses:

• the Alpilles
• the Montagnette
• the Mountain Holy-Victoire
• the Massive of the Star
• the Massive of Garlaban
• the Massive of the Holy-Balsam
• the Massive of Douard

See also: The Cantons of the Rhone delta

Climate

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Economy

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Demography

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The inhabitants of the Rhone delta are the Buccorhodaniens .

The population (1999) is of 1.832.620 inhabitants, especially urban. Community of communes of Marseilles-Provence-Metropolis account 898.640 inhabitants (including 798.430 in the commune of Marseilles), Aix-en-Provence: 132.970 inhabitants, Martigues 43.500 inhabitants and Arles 52.060 inhabitants.

The censuses of 2004 and 2005 estimate the population of the department at 1.906.000 inhabitants. The commune of Marseilles: 820.900 inhabitants, Aix-en-Provence: 140.100 inhabitants, Martigues: 45.400 inhabitants, Arles: 52.600 inhabitants

Culture

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To date, fifteen French academicians were born in the Rhone delta:

• Joseph Autran (1868)

• Jean-Jacques Barthelemy (1789)
• Henri Bremond (1923)
• Marcel Brion (1964)
• Alfred Capus (1914)
• François-Urbain Domergue (1803)
• Marc Fumaroli (1995)
• Jealous Edmond (1936)
• Camille Jullian (1924)
• Charles Maurras (1938)
• Emile Ollivier (1870)
• Marcel Pagnol (1946)
• Jean-François Revel (1997)
• Edmond Rostand (1901)
• Andre Roussin (1973)

Tourism

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