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city
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The principal French Mediterranean port, founded as the Greek colony of Massalia around 600 BCE, and — for reasons that have very little to do with its history and everything to do with its…
43.3, 5.4 · approximate · founded c. 600 BCE; a submarine cable hub from the 19th century and intensively since the 2010s
On the world
- A place in: The Cables Beneath · 6 places
Lines mark links and orders the records assert; no path between any two places is recorded, and none is drawn.
Connections
- is connected to of 2Africa — Marseille is among the system's European landing points, alongside more than a dozen other systems terminating there.
- instance of The cable chokepoint — A single Mediterranean coastline concentrates the European ends of the Europe–Asia and Europe–Africa corridors, and the data centres follow the cables.
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