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Encyclopedia Britannica



MARTIGUES

This article appears in Volume V17, Page 792 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: MAR-MEC
MARTIGUES , a port of
south
 -eastern France in the department of Bouches-du-Rhone, on the southern shore of the lagoon of Berre, and at the eastern extremity of that of Caronte, by which the former is connected with the Mediterranean. Pop. (1906), 4,178. Martigues is 23 M. W.N.W. of Marseilles by rail. Divided into three quarters by canals, the place has been called the Venice of
Provence
 . It has a harbour (used by
coasting
  and fishing vessels), marine workshops, oil and soap manufactures and cod-drying works. A
special
  industry consists in the preparation of boutargue from the roes of the grey
mullet
  caught in the salt lagoons, which rivals Russian caviare.
Built in 1232 by Raymond Berenger, count of
Provence
 , Martigues was made a viscountship by
Joanna
  I., queen of Naples.
Henry
  IV. made it a principality, in favour of a princess of the
house
  of Luxembourg. It afterwards passed into the hands of the duke of Villars.


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