 Nevertheless, the term "County of Nice" (Countea de Nissa in Niçard language) continues in use today to identify the territory as a distinct cultural and historical region, particularly to distinguish it from neighboring Provence.The historical language used by inhabitants of the County of Nice was Niçard, though it has been almost entirely supplanted by French since 1860.Since 2010 the statue "Neuf Lignes Obliques" on the Promenade des Anglais commemorates the 150th year of Nice's annexation.