Aix

Aix, a town, the ancient capital of Provence, 20 m. N. of Marseilles, the seat of an archbishop and a university; founded by the Romans 123 B.C.; near it Marius defeated the Teutons.

Population (circa 1900) given as 22,000.

Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)