Editing Nice (section)

===Foundation===
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[[File:Regio IX Liguria.jpg|thumb|upright|Nice in the ''[[Regio IX Liguria]]'' in [[Roman Italy]]]]
The first known hominid settlements in the Nice area date back about 400,000 years (''[[homo erectus]]'');<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.musee-terra-amata.org/francais/prehistoire/origine4.htm| language=fr| title=Le Nouveau venu| publisher=Musée de Paléontologie Humaine de Terra Amata| access-date=5 March 2009| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090311090250/http://www.musee-terra-amata.org/francais/prehistoire/origine4.htm| archive-date=11 March 2009| url-status=dead| df=dmy-all}}</ref> the ''[[Terra Amata (archaeological site)|Terra Amata]]'' archeological site shows one of the earliest uses of fire, construction of houses, as well as flint findings dated to around 230,000 years ago.<ref>{{cite journal| title=Thermoluminescence dating of burnt flint: application to a Lower Paleolithic site, Terra Amata| author1=A. G. Wintle| author2=M. J: Aitken| journal=[[Archaeometry]]| volume=19| issue=2| date=July 1997| pages=111–130| doi=10.1111/j.1475-4754.1977.tb00189.x| url=http://www.bcin.ca/Interface/openbcin.cgi?submit=submit&Chinkey=51437| access-date=5 March 2009| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170629205458/http://www.bcin.ca/Interface/openbcin.cgi?submit=submit&Chinkey=51437| archive-date=29 June 2017| url-status=dead}}</ref> Nice was probably founded around 350 BC by colonists from the Greek city of [[Phocaea]] in western [[Anatolia]]. It was given the name of ''Níkaia'' ({{lang|grc|Νίκαια}}) in honour of a victory over the neighbouring [[Ligurians]] (people from the northwest of [[Italy]], probably the Vediantii kingdom); [[Nike (mythology)|Nike]] ({{lang|grc|Νίκη}}) was the [[Greek mythology|Greek goddess]] of victory. The city soon became one of the busiest trading ports on the Ligurian coast; but it had an important rival in the Roman town of [[Cemenelum]], which continued to exist as a separate city until the time of the [[Lombards|Lombard]] invasions.<ref name=EB1911/> The ruins of Cemenelum are in [[Cimiez]], now a district of Nice.