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tribes who occupied the area and vied for control of it; even earlier, it was a shelter for primitive populations. The Rock of
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disguised himself as a Franciscan friar in order to gain entry to the city and open the gates for his soldiers.
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dynasty, the rulers of the country for more than 700 years, founded when the
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The Rock has been a coveted possession from the beginning of the ancient
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Today, the Rock is in the oldest of Monaco's four quarters,
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Tête de Chien
French
Monégasque
monolith
Mediterranean
Principality of Monaco
Mediterranean Sea
Port Hercules
Massilian
Greek
Ligurian
Monaco
Grimaldi
Guelf
Francesco Grimaldi
Monaco-Ville
Prince's Palace
French
monarch
Albert II
princely family
Cathedral
Oceanographic Museum of Monaco
changing of the guards
The Rock in 1890
Monaco-Ville and harbour of Fontvieille today
Fontvieille
"Provence 7 Monaco-Ville"
"The Rock of Monaco"

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