THE WORLD ATLAS

Realm · approximate borders · 972–1245

County of Provence

Provence between the Rhône, the Durance and the Var, nominally in the Kingdom of Arles and then the Empire but ruled as a sovereign county: by the Bosonid counts after William the Liberator expelled the Saracens of Fraxinetum (973), then by the House of Barcelona from 1112. In 1245 it passed by marriage to Charles of Anjou.

The County of Forcalquier north of the Durance joined it in 1209.

See County of Provence on the map in 972

On the map
972–1245
Capital
Aix-en-Provence (from the 12th century), earlier Arles

Rulers named in the sources

Western and central European states, 430–1956

States of western and central Europe: the Irish kingdoms of Meath, Osraige, Breifne, Thomond, Desmond and Tyrconnell, Pictish Fortriu, the Welsh kingdoms of Dyfed, Ceredigion and Deheubarth, Elmet, the taifas of Málaga, Majorca and Menorca, the prince-bishoprics of Liège and Utrecht, Guelders, Brabant, Namur, Limburg, Luxembourg, Cleves and Jülich, Bar and Provence, the Electoral Palatinate, Mainz, Hesse, the Welf principalities, Württemberg, Baden, Ansbach, Bayreuth, Nuremberg, Salzburg, Meissen, Saxe-Wittenberg, Saxe-Lauenburg, Oldenburg and Pomerania, the Visconti, Gonzaga, Este, Montefeltro and Appiani states, Siena, Lucca and Gaeta, and in the 20th century the four occupation zones of Germany, the Saar Protectorate and the Free Territory of Trieste.

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