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Frioul archipelago, the Glossary

The Frioul archipelago is a group of four islands located off the Mediterranean coast of France, approximately from Marseille.^[1]

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Alexandre Dumas

Alexandre Dumas (born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie, 24 July 1802 – 5 December 1870), also known as Alexandre Dumas nocat, was a French novelist and playwright.

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Archipelago

An archipelago, sometimes called an island group or island chain, is a chain, cluster, or collection of islands, or sometimes a sea containing a small number of scattered islands.

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The Château d'If is a fortress located on the Île d'If, the smallest island in the Frioul archipelago, situated about offshore from Marseille in southeastern France. Frioul archipelago and Château d'If are islands of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur.

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Dürer's Rhinoceros

Dürer's Rhinoceros is the name commonly given to a woodcut executed by German artist Albrecht Dürer in 1515.

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France

France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe.

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Hectare

The hectare (SI symbol: ha) is a non-SI metric unit of area equal to a square with 100-metre sides (1 hm2), that is, 10,000 square meters (10,000 m2), and is primarily used in the measurement of land.

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Latin

Latin (lingua Latina,, or Latinum) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.

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Marseille

Marseille or Marseilles (Marseille; Marselha; see below) is the prefecture of the French department of Bouches-du-Rhône and of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region.

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Mediterranean Sea

The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa, on the east by the Levant in West Asia, and on the west almost by the Morocco–Spain border.

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Mole (architecture)

A mole is a massive structure, usually of stone, used as a pier, breakwater, or a causeway separating two bodies of water.

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Provençal dialect

Provençal (provençau or prouvençau) is a variety of Occitan, spoken by people in Provence and parts of Drôme and Gard.

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Pytheas

Pytheas of Massalia (Ancient Greek: Πυθέας ὁ Μασσαλιώτης Pythéās ho Massaliōtēs; Latin: Pytheas Massiliensis; born 350 BC, 320–306 BC) was a Greek geographer, explorer and astronomer from the Greek colony of Massalia (modern-day Marseille, France).

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Ratonneau

Ratonneau is one of the islands of the Frioul archipelago in the Mediterranean Sea, off the southern coast of France near Marseille. Frioul archipelago and Ratonneau are Bouches-du-Rhône geography stubs, geography of Marseille and islands of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur.

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The Count of Monte Cristo

The Count of Monte Cristo (Le Comte de Monte-Cristo) is an adventure novel written by French author Alexandre Dumas (père) completed in 1844.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frioul_archipelago

Also known as Archipel du Frioul.

Frioul archipelago, the Glossary

Table of Contents

Alexandre Dumas

Archipelago

Château d'If

Dürer's Rhinoceros

France

Hectare

Latin

Marseille

Mediterranean Sea

Mole (architecture)

Provençal dialect

Pytheas

Ratonneau

The Count of Monte Cristo

See also

Archipelagoes of Europe

Car-free islands of Europe

Geography of Marseille

Islands of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur

Landforms of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur

References