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Nimes

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Nîmes  (nm)
A city of southern France northeast of Montpellier. Thought to have been founded by Greek colonists, it was one of the leading cities of Roman Gaul and has many important ruins dating from the first and second centuries a.d. Population: 137,000.

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Again, in Arles and Nimes, and other towns that I could name, there are the great arches and fortalices still standing which were built of old by giant men who came from the south.
The White Company by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan View in context
It was agreed in a brief council held among them, that Julie should write to her brother, who was in garrison at Nimes, to come to them as speedily as possible.
The Count of Monte Cristo by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
During the winter of that year and the early spring of 1891, I saw in the papers that he had been engaged by the French government upon a matter of supreme importance, and I received two notes from Holmes, dated from Narbonne and from Nimes, from which I gathered that his stay in France was likely to be a long one.
Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan View in context
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