Place details
Place nameNarbonne
Other namesNarbo, Narbo Martius
CountryFrance
Latitude43.183
Longitude3
SourceThesaurus of Geographic Names
Overview
Said to be first Roman colony beyond the Alps, founded in 118 BCE; taken by Visigoths in 412, by Saracens in 719 and by Pepin the Short in 759; flourished as manufacturing city 11th-12th centuries; boulevards replaced medieval fortifications by 1870; site of 11th- and 14th-century church.