Saint-Raphaël, Var
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Saint-Raphaël is a commune of the Var département and the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region of France. Along with the city of Fréjus, it forms the metropolitan Communauté d'agglomération de Fréjus Saint-Raphaël, 60 kilometers southwest of the city of Nice. It is considered part of the French Riviera. During World War II, on August 15, 1944, it was one of the sites of a beach landing in Operation Dragoon, the Allied invasion of southern France. In the 1999 census, Saint-Raphaël had a population of 30,671.
The bacterium Streptomyces mediterranei was first isolated in 1957 from a soil sample collected near St Raphael. The bacteria became the source of the anti-tuberculosis drug rifamycin.
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