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GAP , the See also:

capital of the See also:French See also:department of the Hautes Alpes. Pop. (1906) See also:town, 6888; See also:commune, 10,823. It is built at a height of 2418 ft. on the right See also:bank of the Luye (an affluent of the See also:Durance), in an agreeable position, and is dominated afar by snowy peaks on the N.E. The little See also:city has the look of a Provencal town, being See also:white. The 17th-See also:century See also:cathedral See also:church has been entirely reconstructed (1866-1905). In the prefecture is the See also:tomb of the See also:constable de See also:Lesdiguieres (1543-1626), dating from about 1613, and due to a See also:Lorraine sculptor, See also:Jacob Richier. The same See also:building contains various scientific and archaeological collections, as well as the very See also:rich archives, which include many See also:MSS. from the monastery of Durbon, &c. There are a few small manufactories of purely See also:local importance. Gap is connected by railway with See also:Briancon (511 m.) and with See also:Grenoble (851 m.), while from the railway junction of Veynes. (161 m. W. of Gap) it is 122 M. by See also:rail to See also:Marseilles.

The episcopal Bulala See also:

dynasty, an offshoot of the royal See also:family of Kanem, whose See also:rule in the 15th century extended from the See also:Shari to See also:Darfur. The existence of the See also:state was first mentioned by See also:Leo See also:Africanus. To the Bornuese it was known as Bulala or See also:Kuka Bulala, a name which persists as that of a See also:district in French See also:Congo (see See also:BORNU). The similarity of the name Gaoga to that of the See also:Songhoi capital has given rise to much confusion. see of Gap, now in the ecclesiastical See also:province of See also:Aix en See also:Provence, is first certainly mentioned in the 6th century, and in 1791 was enlarged by the See also:annexation of that of See also:Embrun (then suppressed). Gap is the Vapincum of the See also:Romans, and was founded by See also:Augustus about 14 B.C. It See also:long formed See also:part of Provence, but in 1232 most of the region passed by See also:marriage to the dauphins of Viennois. The town itself, however, remained under the rule of the bishops until 1512, when it was annexed to the See also:crown of See also:France. The bishops continued to See also:bear the See also:title of See also:count of Gap until the Revolution. The town was sacked by the See also:Huguenots in 1567 and 1577, and by the See also:duke of See also:Savoy in 1692. It was the birthplace of the reformer See also:Guillaume See also:Farel (1489-x565), who first preached his doctrines there about 1561-1562, but then took See also:refuge in See also:Switzerland. See J.

See also:

Roman, Histoire de la vale de Gap (Gap, 1892). (W. A. B.

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