NICE, an ancient, handsome, and considerable town on the confines of France and Italy, and capital of a county of the same name, with a strong citadel, a bishop's see, and a senate, which is a kind of a democracy. It has been several times taken by the French, and lost of all in 1744, but rendered back after the treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle. It is very agreeably situated, four miles from the mouth of the river Var, 83 miles S. by W. of Turin, and 83 east of Aix. E. Long. 6. 22. N. Lat. 43. 42.