- Gap, Hautes-Alpes
French commune
nomcommune=Gap
Jean Marcellin Square in Gap
région=Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
département=Hautes-Alpes
arrondissement=Gap
canton=
insee=05061
cp=05000
gentilé=Gapençais
devise=
maire=Pierre Bernard-Reymond
mandat=2001-2008
intercomm=
longitude=6.07861111111
latitude=44.5594444444
alt moy=745 m
alt mini=625
alt maxi=2,360 m
hectares=11,043
km²=110.43
sans=36,262
date-sans=1999
dens=328
date-dens=1999Gap ( _oc. Gap) is a commune in southeastern
France , the capital of theHautes-Alpes department.Geography
An Alpine crossroads at the intersection of D994 and
Route nationale 85 theRoute Napoléon , Gap lies 2,406 feet above sea level along the right bank of theLuye River (close to where it joins theDurance River ). The region around Gap is known asGapençais .History
Originally founded by the
Gaul s, theRoman emperor Augustus seized the town in14 BC and renamed it "Vapincum". Gap was annexed by the French crown in1512 . The city of Gap has announced their interest in hosting the Winter Olympic Games in 2018.Napoleon I left
Elba in February of1815 and had reached Gap on March 15 with 40 horsemen and 10 grenadiers where he had thousands of copies of his Proclamations printed. The whole population of the city accompanied Napoleon when he left Gap.ee also
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Diocese of Gap
*Gap Cathedral ources and external links
* [http://www.ville-gap.fr/ Gap city council website]
* [http://www.gap-2018.fr/ Gap 2018 olympic bid web site]
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*"Gallia Christiana " (Nova, 1715), I, 452-473, Instrumenta, 86-89, (Nova, 1725), III, 1051-1107; Instrumenta, 177-188, 205-8;
*Albanes , "Gallia christiana Novissima" (Montbeliard, 1899), I,
*Depery , "Histoire hagiologique du diocese de Gap" (Gap, 1852);
*Honoré Fisquet , "France Pontificale" (Paris, 1868);
*Gaillaud , "Histoire de Notre Dame d'Embrun" (Gap, 1862);
*Roman, "Sigillographie du diocese de Gap" (Grenoble, 1870);
*IDEM, "Tableau historique du departement des Hautes-Alpes" (Paris, 1889-91);
*Chevalier, "Topo-bibl.", pp. 988, 1266.
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