Marseilles (Persian Marathon)

Marseilles, known as Marseillie in French, is a city in Southern France. It is the 2nd largest city and metropolitan areain France, after Paris, with a population of 2.2 million people.

Marseilles was founded by the Greeks in 500 BC and in 490 BC it became the capital of the run away New Greece, then called Massalia. Their it became one of the biggest cities in Western Europe due to trade between the original French people and Rome. Marseilles is the largest French city on the Medieranian and the largest French port.