Revest-les-Roches (; oc, So Revest dei Ròcas) is a
commune in the
Alpes-Maritimes
Alpes-Maritimes (; oc, Aups Maritims; it, Alpi Marittime, "Maritime Alps") is a Departments of France, department of France located in the country's southeast corner, on the France–Italy border, Italian border and Mediterranean Sea, Mediter ...
department in southeastern
France
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.
Its inhabitants are called ''Revestois''.
Toponymy
The name of the village, as it was first recorded in 1007 (''Revestis''), comes from the
Occitan Occitan may refer to:
* Something of, from, or related to the Occitania territory in parts of France, Italy, Monaco and Spain.
* Something of, from, or related to the Occitania administrative region of France.
* Occitan language
Occitan (; ...
''So Revèst'', a variant of ''revèrs'', and means a site exposed to the north.
[Ernest Nègre, '' Toponymie générale de la France : étymologie de 35 000 noms de lieux, vol. 2 : Formations non-romanes; formations dialectales'', Geneva, Librairie Droz, coll. « Publications romanes et françaises » (no 194), 1996, 676 p. (), § 22391, p 1199]
Population
See also
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Communes of the Alpes-Maritimes department
The following is a list of the 163 Communes of France, communes of the Alpes-Maritimes Departments of France, department of France.
The communes cooperate in the following Communes of France#Intercommunality, intercommunalities (as of 2020):
References
Communes of Alpes-Maritimes
Alpes-Maritimes communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia
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