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Barcelonnette and is
While the town's name is generally seen as a diminutive form of Barcelona in Spain, Albert Dauzat and Charles Rostaing point out an earlier attestation of the name Barcilona in Barcelonnette in around 1200, and suggest that it is derived instead from two earlier stems signifying a mountain, * bar and * cin ( the latter of which is also seen in the name of Mont Cenis ).
Barcelonnette is situated in the wide and fertile Ubaye Valley, of which it is the largest town.
It lies at an elevation of 1132 m ( 3717 ft ) on the right bank of the Ubaye River, and is surrounded by mountains which reach peaks of over 3000 m ; the tallest of these is the Needle of Chambeyron at 3412 m. Barcelonnette is situated 210 km from Turin, 91 km from Nice and 68 km from Gap.
None of the 200 communes of the department is entirely free of seismic risk ; the canton of Barcelonnette is placed in zone 1b ( low risk ) by the determinist classifcation of 1991 based on seismic history, and zone 4 ( average risk ) according to the probabilistic EC8 classification of 2011.
Barcelonnette is also exposed to the possibility of a technological hazard in that road transport of dangerous materials is allowed to pass through on the RD900.
The Pra Loup resort is 7 km from Barcelonnette ; Le Sauze is 5 km away.
Notably, Barcelonnette is the only subprefecture of France not be served by rail transport ; the Ubaye line which would have linked Chorges to Barcelonnette was never completed as a result of the First World War and the construction of the Serre-Ponçon Dam between 1955 and 1961.
The lycée André-Honnorat de Barcelonnette, originally the collège Saint-Maurice and renamed after the politician André Honnorat in 1919, is located in the town ; Pierre-Gilles de Gennes and Carole Merle both studied there.
Barcelonnette is twinned with:
Gavòt ( in French Gavot ), spoken in the Western Occitan Alps, around Digne, Sisteron, Gap, Barcelonnette and the upper County of Nice, but also in a part of the Ardèche, is not exactly a subdialect of Provençal, but rather a closely related Occitan dialect, also known as Vivaro-Alpine.
Its source is at an altitude of 2819 m, in the south-western Alps ( Alpes-de-Haute-Provence ), between the col d ' Allos and the Trois Eveches mountain, south of Barcelonnette.

Barcelonnette and France
In 1600, after the Treaty of Vervins, conflict returned between Henry IV of France and Savoy, and Lesdiguières retook Barcelonnette until the conclusion of the Treaty of Lyon on 17 January the following year.
The viguerie of Barcelonnette ( also comprising Saint-Martin and Entraunes ) was reattached to France in 1713 as part of a territorial exchange with the Duchy of Savoy during the Treaties of Utrecht.
In July, the Great Fear of aristocratic reprisal against the ongoing French Revolution struck France, arriving in the Barcelonnette area on 31 July 1789 ( when the news of the storming of the Bastille first reached the town ) before spreading towards Digne.
On the edges of Barcelonnette and Jausiers there are several houses and villas of colonial style ( known as maisons mexicaines ), constructed by emigrants to Mexico who returned to France between 1870 and 1930.
* Barcelonnette, a town in southern France
One turning-point in the rivalry was the Treaty of Utrecht ( 1713 ), by which France ceded to Savoy the Alpine districts of Exilles, Bardonnèche ( Bardonecchia ), Oulx, Fenestrelles, and Châtean Dauphin, while Savoy handed over to France the valley of Barcelonnette, situated on the western slope of the Alps and forming part of the county of Nice.
It was reported on July 23, 2010 that Jarreau was critically ill at a hospital in France, while in the area to perform a concert at nearby Barcelonnette, and was being treated for respiratory problems and cardiac arrhythmias .< ref >
It connects Barcelonnette in France with Cuneo in Italy.

Barcelonnette and subprefecture
This was stopped, however, on 10 December before it could reach Barcelonnette, as the priest of the subprefecture had intervened.

Barcelonnette and Alpes-de-Haute-Provence
Reynaud was born in Barcelonnette, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence.

Barcelonnette and d
In 1388, after Count Louis II of Provence had left to conquer Naples, the Count of Savoy Amadeus VIII took control of Barcelonnette ; however, it returned to Provençal control in 1390, with the d ' Audiffret family as its lords.
In 1628, during the War of the Mantuan Succession, Barcelonnette and the other towns of the Ubaye Valley were pillaged and burned by Jacques du Blé d ' Uxelles and his troops, as they passed through towards Italy to the Duke of Mantua's aid.

Barcelonnette and region
The Barcelonnette region was populated by Ligures from the first millenium BC onwards, and the arrival of the Celts several centuries later led to the formation of a mixed Celto-Ligurian people, the Vesubians.
The strongest recorded earthquakes in the region occurred on 5 April 1959, with its epicentre at Saint-Paul-sur-Ubaye and a recorded intensity of 6. 5 at Barcelonnette, and on 17 February 1947, with its epicentre at Prazzo over the Italian border.
At the turn of the 20th century, there were 5, 000 French families from the Barcelonnette region registered with the French Consulate in Mexico.

Barcelonnette and .
Following the Roman conquest of Provence, Barcelonnette was included in a small province with modern Embrun as its capital and governed by Albanus Bassalus.
In 36 AD, Emperor Nero transferred Barcelonnette to the province of the Cottian Alps.
The town was known as Rigomagensium under the Roman Empire and was the capital of a civitas ( a provincial subdivision ), though no Roman money has yet been found in the canton of Barcelonnette.
The town of Barcelonnette was founded in 1231 by Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Provence.
Barcelonnette and the Ubaye Valley remained under French sovereignty until the second Treaty of Cateau-Cambrésis on 3 April 1559.
Between 1614 and 1713, Barcelonnette was the seat of one of the four prefectures under the jurisdiction of the Senate of Nice.
At this time, the community of Barcelonnette successfully purchased the seigneurie of the town as it was put to auction by the Duke of Savoy ; it thereby gained its own justicial powers.
In 1646, a college was founded in Barcelonnette.
Barcelonnette was the seat of the District of Barcelonnette from 1790 to 1800.
Between 1850 and 1950, Barcelonnette was the source of a wave of emigration to Mexico.
A plaque in the town commemorates the deaths of ten Mexican citizens who returned to Barcelonnette to fight in the First World War.
During the Second World War, 26 Jews were arrested in Barcelonnette before being deported.
The 89th compagnie de travailleurs étrangers ( Company of Foreign Workers ), consisting of foreigners judged as undesirable by the Third Republic and the Vichy regime and committed to forced labour, was established in Barcelonnette.
The 11th Batallion of Chasseurs alpins was garrisonned at Barcelonnette between 1948 and 1990.

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