Traditional city flag Traditional coat of arms
City motto: Actibus immensis urbs fulget Massiliensis. (Latin: By her great deeds, Marseille shines in the world)
City proper (commune)
Région	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Département	Bouches-du-Rhône (13)
Mayor	Jean-Claude Gaudin (UMP) (since 1995)
Area	240.62 km²
Subdivisions	16 arrondissements (in 8 secteurs)
Population 2004 estimate 1999 census	(Ranked 2nd) 795,600 798,430
Density	3,318/km² (1999)
Metropolitan area (aire urbaine)
Communes	82 (1999)
Area	2,830.2 km² (1999)
Population 1999 census	(Ranked 3rd) 1,516,340
Yearly growth	+0.46 %
Density	536/km² (1999)
Intercommunality   - president	Urban Community of Marseille Provence Métropole Jean-Claude Gaudin (UMP) (since 2000)
Miscellaneous
Twin cities	Abidjan (Ivory Coast) Antwerp (Belgium) Copenhagen (Denmark) Dakar (Senegal) Genoa (Italy) Haifa (Israel) Hamburg (Germany) Kobe (Japan) Odessa (Ukraine) Piraeus (Greece) Marrakech (Morocco) Shanghai (China)

Around the Old Port of Marseille

A view of the boulevard d'Athènes from the Saint-Charles railway station

The place du Général de Gaulle in Marseille.

Madonna and Child statue on the Basilique Notre Dame de la Garde.

Musée des Beaux Arts, Marseille.

The Église des Réformés church

Jeanne d'Arc statue in Marseille.

Marseille (English alternate spelling Marseilles) (pronounced /maʀsɛj/ in standard French, /mɑxˈsɛjɐ/ in local Marseilles accent) (Provençal: Marsiho or Marsilha, both pronounced /maɾˈsijɐ/) is the second largest city in France and the third metropolitan area, with 1,516,340 inhabitants at the 1999 census. Located in the former province of Provence and on the Mediterranean Sea, it is France's largest commercial port and the largest in the Mediterranean. File links The following pages link to this file: Marseille Template:Marseille infobox Categories: Public domain images ... File links The following pages link to this file: Marseille Template:Marseille infobox Categories: Public domain images ... Jump to: navigation, search A motto is a phrase or a short list of words meant to formally describe the general motivation or intention of a social group or organization. ... 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History

Marseille was founded in 600 BC by Phocaean Greeks as a trading port under the name Μασσαλία (Massalia; see also List of traditional Greek place names). It was overrun by Celts and then conquered by the Romans. During the Roman times, it was called Massilia. In 1934 Alexander I of Yugoslavia arrived at the port to meet with the French foreign minister Louis Barthou. He was assassinated there by Vlada Georgieff who hated Alexander's refusal to recognise Croatia as a separate state. Centuries: 8th century BC - 7th century BC - 6th century BC Decades: 650s BC 640s BC 630s BC 620s BC 610s BC - 600s BC - 590s BC 580s BC 570s BC 560s BC 550s BC Events and Trends Fall of the Assyrian Empire and Rise of Babylon 609 BC _ King Josiah... Satellite photo showing location of the ancient cities of Phocaea, Cyme and Smyrna Phocaea (modern-day Foça in Turkey) was an ancient Ionian Greek city on the western coast of Anatolia. ... This is a list of traditional Greek place names. ... Jump to: navigation, search A Celtic cross. ... Jump to: navigation, search Ancient Rome was a civilization that existed in Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East between 753 BC and its downfall in AD 476. ... Jump to: navigation, search Aleksandar I KaraÄ‘orÄ‘ević King Alexander I of Yugoslavia (Serbian Kralj Aleksandar I KaraÄ‘orÄ‘ević, in Cyrillic Краљ Александар I Карађорђевић) (Cetinje, Montenegro, 16 December 1888 – Marseille, France, 9 October 1934) of the Royal House of KaraÄ‘orÄ‘ević was the first king of the Kingdom of... French politician Louis Barthou Jean Louis Barthou (August 25, 1862 – October 9, 1934) was a French politician of the Third Republic. ... This article contains information that has not been verified. ...

Economy

Marseilles' harbor is the biggest of the country, and one of the most important of the Mediterranean Sea.

Administration

Marseille from Space

Marseille is divided into 16 municipal arrondissements, which are themselves divided into quartiers (111 in total). The arrondissements are regrouped in pairs into sectors, and 8 sectors have a council and a town hall, like the arrondissements in Paris and in Lyon. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1108x972, 1054 KB)Image courtesy of Earth Sciences and Image Analysis Laboratory, NASA Johnson Space Center. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1108x972, 1054 KB)Image courtesy of Earth Sciences and Image Analysis Laboratory, NASA Johnson Space Center. ... The municipal arrondissement (French: arrondissement municipal), more simply referred to as arrondissement, is a level of administrative division in France lower than the commune. ... Jump to: navigation, search The Eiffel Tower has become a symbol of Paris throughout the world. ... Jump to: navigation, search City motto: Avant, avant, Lion le melhor. ...

The municipal elections are carried out by sector. Each sector elects its councillors (303 in total), one third of which are muncipal councillors.

Number of councilors elected by sector:

The last mayors of Marseille :

• 1953-1986 : Gaston Defferre (already mayor between 1944 and 1946, relected in 1959, 1965, 1971, 1977, 1983)
• 1986-1995 : Robert Vigouroux PS (reelected in 1989)
• 1995- : Jean-Claude Gaudin UMP (relected in 2001)

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• 1st sector (1st and 7th arrondissements): Jean Roatta (Representative) UMP
• 2nd sector (2nd and 3re arrondissements): Lisette Narducci (General Councilor) PS
• 3rd sector (4th and 5th arrondissements): Bruno Gilles (representative) UMP
• 4th sector (6th and 8th arrondissements): Dominique Tian (representative) UMP
• 5th sector (9th and 10th arrondissements): Guy Teissier (representative) UMP
• 6th sector (11th and 12th arrondissements): Roland Blum (representative) UMP
• 7th sector (13th and 14th arrondissements): Garo Hovsepian PS
• 8th sector (15th and 16th arrondissements): Frédéric Dutoit (representative) PCF

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Marseille holds 25 of the 58 seats at the general council of the Bouches-du-Rhône. Since the last election, these 25 cantons are held by the following councilors: Bouches-du-Rhône is a département in the south of France named after the mouth of the Rhône River. ...

• Marseille-La,Belle-de-Mai (pop. 25,878); General Councilor: Lisette Narducci PS (Mayor of the 2ème sector de Marseille)
• Marseille-Belsunce (pop. 27,992); General Councilor: Fortuné Sportiello PS
• Marseille-La,Blancarde (pop. 30,168); General Councilor Maurice Di Nocera UDF
• Marseille-Le,Camas (pop. 27,506); General Councilor: Antoine Rouzaud PS (Municipal councilor of Marseille)
• Marseille-La,Capelette (pop. 34,292); General Councilor: Janine Ecochard PS
• Marseille-Les,Cinq-Avenues (pop. 29,846); General Councilor: Marie-Arlette Carlotti PS (Representative européenne)
• Marseille-Les,Grands-Carmes (pop. 29,060); General Councilor: Jean-Noël Guerini PS (Sénateur, Président du Conseil Général, Municipal councilor of Marseille)
• Marseille-Mazargues (pop. 35,890); General Councilor: Didier Réault UMP
• Marseille-Montolivet (pop. 33,644); General Councilor: Maurice Rey UMP
• Marseille-Notre-Dame-du-Mont (pop. 31,107); General Councilor: Jocelyn Zeitoun PS
• Marseille-Notre-Dame-Limite (pop. 33,472); General Councilor: Joël Dutto PCF
• Marseille-Les,Olives (pop. 27,052); General Councilor: Marius Masse PS
• Marseille-La,Pointe-Rouge (pop. 31,116); General Councilor: Richard Miron UMP
• Marseille-La,Pomme (pop. 38,701); General Councilor: René Olmeta PS (Municipal councilor of Marseille)
• Marseille-La,Rose (pop. 33,206); General Councilor: Félix Weygand PS
• Marseille-Saint-Barthélemy (pop. 37,629); General Councilor: Denis Rossi PS (Municipal councilor of Marseille)
• Marseille-Sainte-Marguerite (pop. 36,868); General Councilor: Didier Garnier UMP
• Marseille-Saint-Giniez (pop. 34,621); General Councilor: Martine Vassal UMP (Adjointe au Maire de Marseille)
• Marseille-Saint-Just (pop. 32,749); General Councilor: Michel Pezet PS (Municipal councilor of Marseille)
• Marseille-Saint-Lambert (pop. 26,218); General Councilor: Robert Assante UMP (Adjoint au Maire de Marseille)
• Marseille-Saint-Marcel (pop. 29,981); General Councilor: Jean Bonat PS (Municipal councilor of Marseille)
• Marseille-Saint-Mauront (pop. 40,392); General Councilor: Jeanine Porte PCF
• Marseille-Les,Trois,Lucs (pop. 25,324); General Councilor: Christophe Masse PS (Representative)
• Marseille-Vauban (pop. 29,668); General Councilor: André Malrait UMP
• Marseille-Verduron (pop. 35,752). General Councilor: Henri Jibrayel PS

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Culture

The French national anthem "La Marseillaise" is named for the Revolutionary troops from Marseille. A national anthem is a generally patriotic musical composition that is formally recognized by a countrys government as their states official national song. ... Jump to: navigation, search La Marseillaise is the national anthem of France. ...

The most widely circulated tarot deck comes from Marseille; it is called the Tarot de Marseille, and was used to play the local variant of tarocchi before it came to the notice of people who used it in cartomancy. Jump to: navigation, search As discussed in more detail below, the Tarot is usually a deck of 78 cards composed of: the major arcana, consisting of 21 trump cards and the Fool card; the minor arcana consisting of 56 cards: ten cards numbered from Ace to 10 in four different... Jump to: navigation, search Le Bateleur, The Mountebank, the first trump in the Tarot de Marseille. ... Austrian-style 54-card Tarock hand: the Fool; six trumps; King, Queen, 1 of hearts. ... Cartomancy is a form of fortune-telling or divination using a deck of cards. ...

Music

• The French rap band IAM is from Marseille
• Massilia Sound System

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Demographics

Approximately 25 per cent of Marseille’s population is of North African origin, mostly Algerian, and Tunisian. Demographers estimate that in the future, Marseille will be the first city in Europe with an population that is a Muslim majority. The Jewish community is also the third largest in Europe.

Sights

• The old harbor
• Notre-Dame-de-la-Garde
• Château d'If, an ancient prison island, where The Count of Monte Cristo was jailed, in Alexandre Dumas' novel
• Unité d'Habitation de Marseille, by the Swiss architect Le Corbusier
• The calanques

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Transportation

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Miscellaneous

The city's main football club is Olympique de Marseille, UEFA Champions League winner in 1993 but tainted by the 1990s match fixing scandal by then-owner Bernard Tapie. A football team is the collective name given to a number of players who play together in a football game, be it association football (soccer), rugby, Australian football, American football, Gaelic football, or other version of football. ... Olympique de Marseille is a football team that plays in Ligue 1, the top level of the French Football League, based in Marseille. ... Jump to: navigation, search The Champions League logo The Champions League trophy The UEFA Champions League is an annual international inter-club football competition for Europes most successful clubs. ... Match fixing or game fixing in organized sports occurs when a match is played to a completely or partially pre-determined result. ... Jump to: navigation, search Bernard Tapie (born 26 January 1943 in Paris) is a French businessman, politician and, occasionally, actor, singer, rapper record breaking yachtsman and TV host. ...

Births

Marseille was the birthplace of:

• Antonin Artaud (1897-1948), author
• Maurice Béjart (born 1927), ballet choreographer
• Jean-Henry Gourgaud, aka. "Dugazon" (1746-1809), actor
• Désirée Clary (1777-1860), wife of King Carl XIV Johann of Sweden, and therefore Queen Desirée or Queen Desideria of Sweden
• Adolphe Thiers (1797-1877), first president of the Third Republic
• Etienne Joseph Louis Garnier-Pages (1801-1841), politician
• Honoré Daumier (1808-1879), caricaturist and painter
• Joseph Autran (1813-1877), poet
• Olivier Émile Ollivier (1825-1913), statesman
• Joseph Pujol, aka. "Le Pétomane" (1857-1945), entertainer
• Edmond Rostand (1868-1918), poet and dramatist
• Vincent Scotto (1876-1952), guitarist, songwriter
• Fernandel (1903-1971), actor
• Eliane Browne-Bartroli (1917-1944), French Resistance, Croix de Guerre
• Louis Jourdan (born 1919), actor
• Jean Pierre Rampal (1922-2000), flutist
• Jean-Claude Izzo (1945-2000), author
• Zinedine Zidane (born 1972), soccer player

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Deaths

• French poet Arthur Rimbaud died in Marseille on November 10, 1891.
• King Alexander I of Yugoslavia was assassinated on October 9, 1934 in Marseille along with French Foreign Minister Louis Barthou.

Jump to: navigation, search Photo of Arthur Rimbaud Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud (October 20, 1854 – November 10, 1891) was a French poet, born in Charleville. ... Jump to: navigation, search November 10 is the 314th day of the year (315th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 51 days remaining. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1891 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... A number of historical people were named Alexander I : Alexander I of Macedon, king of Macedon 495-450 BC Alexander I of Epirus King of Epirus about 342 B.C. Pope Alexander I, Pope from 106 to 115 Alexander I of Scotland (c. ... Jump to: navigation, search Yugoslavia (Jugoslavija in all south Slavic languages, in Cyrillic Југославија) is a term used for three separate but successive political entities that existed during most of the 20th century on the Balkan Peninsula in Europe. ... Jump to: navigation, search October 9 is the 282nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (283rd in Leap years). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1934 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... French politician Louis Barthou Jean Louis Barthou (August 25, 1862 – October 9, 1934) was a French politician of the Third Republic. ...

Movies set in Marseille

• 37°2 le matin (1986)
• À bout de souffle (1960)
• Baise-moi (2000)
• Comme un aimant (2000)
• The French Connection (1971) and its sequel (1975)
• Gomez & Tavarès (2003)
• La Lune dans le caniveau (1983)
• Marius (1931)
• Marius et Jeannette (1997)
• Pépé le Moko (1937)
• Roselyne et les lions (1989)
• Taxi (1998)
• Taxi 2 (2000)
• Taxi 3 (2003)
• Trois places pour le 26 (1988)
• Un, deux, trois, soleil (1993)

37°2 le matin, released 1986, is a French film, released in the United Kingdom and United States under the title Betty Blue. ... À bout de souffle (French for Out of breath, normally shortened to Breathless for English audiences) is a 1960 film directed by Jean-Luc Godard. ... The cover of the UK edition of the film shows that the film used its notoriety as a marketing ploy Baise-moi is a book first published in 1999 and authored by Virginie Despentes. ... Comme un aimant is a 2000 French film by Kamel Saleh and Akhenaton. ... The French Connection is a 1971 Hollywood film directed by William Friedkin. ... French Connection II DVD cover French Connection II is a 1975 movie sequel to The French Connection, starring Gene Hackman directed by John Frankenheimer. ... Jump to: navigation, search Gaius Marius (Latin: C·MARIVS·C·F·C·N)¹ (157 BC - January 13, 86 BC) was a Roman general and politician elected Consul an unprecedented seven times during his career. ... Categories: Movie stubs | 1998 films | Action films | Comedy films | French films ... Movie poster of Taxi 2 Taxi 2 is a 2000 French movie directed by Gérard Krawczyk. ... Taxi 3 is a 2003 French film directed by Gérard Krawczyk. ...

See also

• Marseille Marine Fire Battalion
• Stade Vélodrome

Fire exercice aboard the frigate La Motte-Picquet — one of the main problems is the concentration of very calorific water vapor, therefore the raincoat-like equipment The Marseille Marine Fire Battalion, or in French le Bataillon de marins-pompiers de Marseille or BMPM, is the fire and rescue service for... The Stade Vélodrome is a 60,000 capacity stadium in Marseille, France. ...

External links

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• Marseille
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• The Jewish Community of Marseilles