Axtibes (anc. Autipolits), a town and seaport of France, department of Alpes-Maritimes, built on a promontory jutting into the Mediterranean, 15 m. S. W. of Nice; pop. in 1866, 6,829. It has fortifications erected by Vauban and some Roman antiquities, including an aqueduct in good preservation. The chief industry and trade are in salted fish, dried fruits, wine, and olive oil. The town was founded by the Greeks of Massilia (Marseilles) in the 4th century B. C. Under the Romans it was a military station and an important seat of commerce, but it was ruined by the barbarians and Saracens. In later times it was strongly fortified, and successfully withstood a siege of the English and Imperialists in 1746.