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Nîmes
Nîmes is a city in the Gard department of southern France. Founded around a sacred spring as Nemausus, the chief town of the Volcae Arecomici, it became a Roman colony under Augustus and keeps outstanding Roman monuments, including an amphitheatre, the Maison Carrée and the Tour Magne. In the Middle Ages it was held by the Trencavel viscounts and the counts of Toulouse.
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