Province: Nice

Owners Title: Prince

% of Worldwide          0.0%                    Starting Population     10                      

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% of Worldwide          0.0%                    Starting Income         156                     

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% of Worldwide GDP      0.1%                    Starting GDP            4,454                   

% of Worldwide          0.1%                    Starting Surplus        14
                      

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Language: I2

Kingdom: HRE:Arles

Starting Owner: Grimaldi (33)

Starting Overlord : d'Anjou (231)

Regional Location: Far Southeast Arles/Southern Italy

Comments: Monaco was first settled by the Phoenicians, who built a trading post on the site of its fine harbor. For so small a place it has had a stormy history, passing from Phoenician to Greek to Carthaginian to Roman to various breeds of Barbarian, then the Franks, and eventually to Genoa in 1162.

Over a century later the Genoese Grimaldi family seized it by a ruse (they gained entry by disguising themselves a monks), and they have ruled it ever since, under the protection of the Counts of Nice and ultimately the Kings of Arles .

There is some shipping and fishing, and the town enjoys a favorable location on the principal coastal route between Genoa and Nice. Monaco is the only area in the game ruled by the same family to this day.