The ancient Greeks founded this Italian city around  600 B.C. & gave it a name meaning "New City"
The modern Turkish name for the city, stanbul, derives from 
the Greek... [DOC] [TLE] History of Provence - Wikipedia [PAR] The historic French region of Provence, located in the southeast corner of France 
between the Alps, the Mediterranean, the Rhone River and the upper reaches of 
the Durance River, was inhabited by Ligures since Neolithic times; by the Celtic 
since about 900 BC, and by Greek colonists since about 600 BC.