Provence Provence Provence (, ; ; "Prouvènço" , ) is a geographical region and historical province of southeastern France, which extends from the left bank of the lower Rhône River to the west to the Italian border to the east, and is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the south. It largely corresponds with the modern administrative "région" of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, and includes the "départements" of Var, Bouches-du-Rhône, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence and parts of Alpes-Maritimes and Vaucluse. The largest city of the region is Marseille. The Romans made the region the first Roman province beyond the Alps and called it "Provincia Romana", which
Société scientifique et littéraire des Alpes-de-Haute-Provence an historical, scientific, or literary way. It has published many works of recognized quality, distributed to a number of European societies and universities. Its publications have appeared under a number of names: "Annales des Basses-Alpes" followed by "Annales de Haute-Provence" and finally "Chroniques de Haute-Provence". These publications have been indexed and filed by the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence archives department. Many libraries shelve these works. Since 1969, the society has appointed a committee to protect the monuments and sites in Haute-Provence. The committee has made it its aim to safeguard, restore, and highlight the department's monuments and sites. It acts in concert with