showing the area of the
Italian kingdom of Sardinia annexed in 1860 to France (light brown). The area in red had already become part of France before 1860. The arrondissement of Nice is roughly equivalent to the ancient
County of Nice, a historical region belonging first to the
Duchy of Savoy and then to the
Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia. Conquered in 1792 by the armies of the
First French Republic, the County of Nice continued to be part of France until 1814; but after that date it reverted to the Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia. After the
Treaty of Turin was signed in 1860 between the
Sardinian king and
Napoleon III as a consequence of the
Plombières Agreement, the County of Nice was again and definitively ceded to France as a territorial reward for French assistance in the
Second Italian War of Independence against
Austria, which saw
Lombardy united with
Piedmont-Sardinia. In particular, the arrondissement of Nice was created in 1800 during the first French annexation, disbanded in 1814 after the
Treaty of Paris, when its territory returned to the Kingdom of Piedmonte-Sardinia, and restored in 1860 after the aforementioned
Treaty of Turin. As a result of the reorganisation of the
cantons of France which came into effect in 2015, the borders of the cantons are no longer related to the borders of the arrondissements. The cantons of the arrondissement of Nice were, as of January 2015: •
Beausoleil • Breil-sur-Roya •
Contes • L'Escarène • Guillaumes • Lantosque • Levens • Menton-Est • Menton-Ouest • Nice 1st Canton • Nice 2nd Canton • Nice 3rd Canton • Nice 4th Canton • Nice 5th Canton • Nice 6th Canton • Nice 7th Canton • Nice 8th Canton • Nice 9th Canton • Nice 10th Canton • Nice 11th Canton • Nice 12th Canton • Nice 13th Canton • Nice 14th Canton • Puget-Théniers • Roquebillière • Roquestéron • Saint-Étienne-de-Tinée • Saint-Martin-Vésubie • Saint-Sauveur-sur-Tinée • Sospel • Tende • Villars-sur-Var •
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