Marignane (French pronunciation: [maʁiɲan]; Occitan: Marinhana) is a commune in the Bouches-du-Rhône department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southern France.

[3] In the 15th century the Count of Provence owned the land,[5] and from 1603 to the French Revolution it belonged to the Covets.

[5] Three chapels and one convent were built in the 17th and 18th century: Notre-Dame de Pitié (1635), Saint-Nicolas (1695), Sainte-Anne (1710, now demolished), and Couvent des Minimes (1695).

[citation needed] German soldiers murdered Marignane civilians indiscriminately and with impunity, with victims including men, women, and children.

Between August 19 and the recapture of the town by September 9, German soldiers repeatedly raped Marignane women.