on the internet. Like the name Région Hauts-de-France (and, until 2015, the name Région Centre), the name Région Grand Est contains no reference whatsoever...

Alsace was the smallest administrative région in metropolitan France, consisting of the Bas-Rhin and Haut-Rhin departments. Territorial reform passed...

Grand-Est Bas-Rhin, Haut-Rhin Switzerland Basel-Stadt The Upper Rhine tri-national region (French: Région Métropolitaine Trinationale du Rhin Supérieur,...

confederation of sovereign states (the treaty called it the États confédérés du Rhin. The "Protector of the Confederation" was a hereditary office of the Emperor...

the Grand Est region of eastern France, at the border with Germany in the historic region of Alsace. It is the prefecture of the Bas-Rhin department and...

identity today. Minor parts of today's region were attached to the neighbouring departments of the Sarre and Bas-Rhin. The French further subdivided the department...

officially the Brussels-Capital Region (French: Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; Dutch: Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest), is a region of Belgium comprising 19 municipalities...

Alsace (Haut-Rhin department, in the Grand Est region of France), close to the Swiss and German borders. It is the largest city in Haut-Rhin and second...

Mulhouse-Ville, also known as Gare Centrale, is the main railway station in the city of Mulhouse, Haut-Rhin, France. It is the eastern terminus of the...

part of Vosges, near the mountains of Alsace; the départements Haut-Rhin and Bas-Rhin; a few communes in département Haute-Saône; Belfort Territory; and...

The Rhône–Rhine Canal (French: Canal du Rhône au Rhin, pronounced [kanal dy ʁon o ʁɛ̃]) is one of the important watershed canals of the French waterways...

Hagenaw) is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department of France, of which it is a sub-prefecture. It is second in size in the Bas-Rhin only to Strasbourg, some 30 km...

Navigation of the Rhine (CCNR; French: Commission centrale pour la navigation du Rhin; German: Zentralkommission für die Rheinschifffahrt; Dutch: Centrale Commissie...

monument historique since 1996. The Préfecture de la région Grand-Est et du département du Bas-Rhin (not to be confused with the residence of the prefect...

alphabetical order of their names. The department of Bas-Rhin and parts of Meurthe, Moselle, Vosges and Haut-Rhin were ceded to the German Empire in 1871 following...

[ˈkolməʁ]; German: Kolmar) is a city and commune in the Haut-Rhin department and Grand Est region of north-eastern France. The third-largest commune in Alsace...

Haut-Kœnigsbourg, is a medieval castle located in the commune of Orschwiller in the Bas-Rhin département of Alsace, France. Located in the Vosges mountains just west...

(1,361 sq mi) and corresponds exactly to the current department of Haut-Rhin Unterelsaß, (Lower Alsace), whose capital was Strassburg, had a land area...

Richewihr; German: Reichenweier [ˈʁaɪçn̩vaɪɐ] ) is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department in Grand Est in north-eastern France. A popular tourist attraction...

addition to several districts (e.g. Rhein-Sieg). The departments of Bas-Rhin and Haut-Rhin in Alsace (France) are also named after the river. Some adjacent towns...

part of the département of Moselle in the Lorraine region, and in the north-west part of Bas-Rhin in Alsace. To the north, it is bounded by the Sankt...

pronunciation: [baʁ] ; in Alsatian Borr) is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in the Alsace region of north-eastern France. The inhabitants of the commune are...

address this problem, the parent "District de la région parisienne" ('district of the Paris region') was reorganised into several new departments from...

Ill is currently navigable from a junction with the Canal de la Marne au Rhin for a distance of just under 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) upstream to a head of...

villages and cities to Germany in: Alsace: the French departments of Bas-Rhin and Haut-Rhin, except for the city of Belfort and its territory; Lorraine: most...

The region lost its recently acquired autonomy and reverted to the centralised French system as the départements of Moselle and Haut and Bas-Rhin. Bavarian...

mountains, near Saverne, which permits travel between the départements of Bas-Rhin and Moselle, and therefore between Alsace and Lorraine. Transport routes...

"Canal de l'Est – Branche Sud") to the Moselle and via the Canal du Rhône au Rhin to the Rhine. The Rhône is infamous for its strong current when the river...

Alsatian red wine. The region also produces Crémant d'Alsace, a sparkling wine. Alsace is also the main beer-producing région of France, thanks primarily...

located at a busy hub in the region's local and long-distance road network. Its proximity to the commercial port of Mulhouse-Rhin facilitates international...