Extent and Geography
The original Roman province was called Gallia Transalpina, then Gallia Narbonensis, or simply Provincia Nostra ('Our Province') or Provincia. It extended from the Alps to the Pyrenees and north to the Vaucluse, with its capital in Narbo Martius (present-day Narbonne).
In the 15th century the Conté of Provence was bounded by the Var river on the east, the Rhone river to the west, with the Mediterranean to the south, and a northern border that roughly followed the Durance river.
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