Orange is a popular city in France, which is about 21 kms north of Avignon. The town bears the population of about 26,000 people; most of them depend on agriculture. So, you can say, Orange is primarily an agrarian economy. The town is famed for its Roman architecture; It also possesses the best preserved Roman Theater in Europe, as well as a particularly fine triumphal arch, both built during the reign of Augustus.
Historically, Roman Orange was founded in 35 BC by the Second Gallica Roman Legion as Arausio, or Colonia Julia Firma Secundanorum Arausio in full, "the Julian colony of Arausio established by the soldiers of the second legion". It covered an area of some 170 acres (690,000 m²) and was well endowed with civic monuments-as well as the theatre and arch, it had a monumental temple complex and a forum. It was the capital of a wide area of northern Provence, which was parceled up into lots for the Roman colonists.
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