Alpes-Maritimes is a department located in the Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur region of southeastern France, with Nice serving as its capital. Alpes-Maritimes was once a Roman province under the name Alpes Maritimae, and it was conquered from Sardinia-Piedmont by the French Republic during the French Revolutionary Wars and made a department in 1793. In 1814, the Congress of Vienna returned Alpes-Maritimes to Savoy, but, in 1860, 83.8% of voters in the department voted to join France; in 1947, the communes of Tende and La Brigue also voted to join France after World War II. Since World War II, Alpes-Maritimes has typically voted to the right. Its towns of Nice, Grasse, Cannes, Antibes, Menton, Èze, Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, and Sainte-Agnès have become famous tourist destinations, and the department had a population of 1,094,283 in 2019.
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