Bouches-du-Rhône

Bouches-du-Rhône (Occitan: Bocas de Ròse, lit. "Mooths o the Rhône") is a depairtment in the sooth o Fraunce named efter the mooth o the Rhône River.

Bouches-du-Rhône
Depairtment
Banner Coat airms
Location of Bouches-du-Rhône in Fraunce
Coordinates: 43°30′N 5°5′E
Kintra	France
Region	Provence-Alpes- Côte d'Azur
Prefectur	Marseille
Subprefecturs	Aix-en-Provence Arles Istres
Govrenment
• Preses o the General Cooncil	Jean-Noël Guérini (PS)
Area
• Total	5087 km2 (1,964 sq mi)
Population  (2007)
• Total	1,958,926
• Rank	3rd
• Density	390/km2 (1,000/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Depairtment number	13
Arrondissements	4
Cantons	57
Communes	119
^1 French Land Register data, which exclude estuaries, an lakes, ponds, an glaciers lairger than 1 km2

Istres, fowert lairgest toun o Bouches-du-Rhône (40,000 inhabitants)

Guardian hoose in Camargue

Castle o Tarascon

Arles Amphitheatre

History

History o the department

Bouches-du-Rhône is ane o the oreeginal 83 depairtments creatit durin the French Revolution on 4 Mairch 1790. It wis creatit frae the wastren pairt o the umwhile province o Provence an the principalities o Orange, Martigues, an Lambesc. It lost pairt o its territory in 1793, includin Orange an Apt, when the Vaucluse depairtment wis creatit.

Follaein its creation, the depairtment wis immediately strangly an actively supportive o the French Revolution, containin 90 "Jacobin Clubs" by 1794. It wis an aa noteworthy that mair nor 50% o the priests in the depairtment acceptit the Ceevil Constitution o the Clergy which in effect subordinatit the kirk tae the govrenment. Durin the ascendancy o the Communist Pairty in the twintiet century election results indicatit that support for left-wing politics remained relatively strang in the depairtment, an especially in the northren suburbs o Marseille.

History o the aurie

The history o the aurie is closely linked tae that o Provence. Marseille haes been an important harbor syne afore Julius Caesar's conquest o Gaul. The Roman presence haes left numerous monuments athort the depairtment.

Geografie

The depairtment is pairt o the current region o Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur. It is surroondit bi the depairtments o Gard on the wast, Vaucluse on the north, an Var on the east, an bi the Mediterranean Sea on the sooth.

Marseille contains an important harbor.

Ither ceeties include:

• Salon de Provence
• Aix-en-Provence
• Aubagne
• Arles
• Cassis
• Fos-sur-Mer
• Istres
• La Ciotat
• Martigues

Rivers include:

• Rhône, which forms the border wi the Gard depairtment
• Rhône delta (the Camargue), in the soothwastren pairt o the depairtment
• Durance
• Arc
• Huveaune

Lakes include:

• Étang de Berre
• Étang de Vaccarès, in Camargue

Muntains include:

• Alpilles muntain range
• Calanques atween Marseille an La Ciotat
• Corniche des Crêtes
• Garlaban
• Mont Puget
• Montagnette hills
• Sainte-Victoire muntain
• Sainte-Baume massif

Cultur

The depairtment is well representit in French airt. Paul Cézanne paintit numerous representations o the Mont Sainte-Victoire. Vincent van Gogh spent hintle o his life in Arles, paintin mony scenes in the aurie.

See an aa

• Cantons o the Bouches-du-Rhône depairtment
• Communes o the Bouches-du-Rhône depairtment
• Arrondissements o the Bouches-du-Rhône depairtment

Freemit airtins

Bouches-du-Rhone at Curlie

• (in French) Prefecture wabsteid
• (in French) General Cooncil wabsteid Archived 2010-03-01 at the Wayback Machine
• (in French) Wabsteid frae the Camargue Archived 2012-10-15 at the Wayback Machine