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Province, 117 CE
Alpes Maritimae
Imperial province, equestrian procuratorCapital: Cemenelum
The coastal Alpine strip behind Nice, the last of Augustus's three mountain-pass provinces and the one that let Rome control the road along the Ligurian coast without routing it through client territory. Its capital Cemenelum sits just above modern Nice; the Tropaeum Alpium at La Turbie, dedicated 7/6 BCE, lists every tribe Rome claimed to have subdued to secure the pass.
No individually mapped places in Alpes Maritimae yet — the province still shows on the map's boundary layer.
Sources
- Pliny the Elder, Natural History 3.136–137 (Tropaeum Alpium inscription)
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