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==History== | ==History== | ||
The | The Department of the Var was created at the time of the French Revolution, on March 4, 1790, from a portion of the former Royal province of Provence. Its capital was originally Toulon, but this was moved for having handed the town to the British in 1793. | ||
Following the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo in 1815 the department was occupied by Austrian troops until November 1818.<br> | |||
About one hundred thousand French citizens were repatriated in the 1960s from Algeria following the Algerian War of Independence, and settled in the Var Department.<br> | |||
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Var_department Wikipedia] | |||
==Localities (Communes)== | ==Localities (Communes)== | ||