The Province of Alsace (Province d'Alsace) was an administrative region of the Kingdom of France and one of the many provinces formed in the late 1600s...
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in Alsace-Lorraine is a series of events which occurred when the region of Alsace–Lorraine passed from German to French sovereignty at the end of World...
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"seated on the Ill", a river in Alsace. In prehistoric times, Alsace was inhabited by nomadic hunters. Part of the province of Germania Superior in the Roman...
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Alsace–Lorraine (German: Elsaß–Lothringen), officially the Imperial Territory of Alsace–Lorraine (German: Reichsland Elsaß–Lothringen), was a former territory...
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Haut-Rhin (redirect from Upper Rhine, Alsace)
through the application of the law of 22 December 1789 in respect of the southern half of the province of Alsace (Haute-Alsace). Its boundaries have been modified...
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Est. Alsace has been the subject of many conflicts. Here, a painting from 1887 depicting a child being taught about the "lost" province of Alsace-Lorraine...
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The history of Alsace has been influenced by the Rhine and its tributaries, a favorable climate, fertile loess soils, and the region's relative accessibility...
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attack of the First World War by the French Army against the German Empire. The battle was part of a French attempt to recover the province of Alsace, which...
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Lotharingia (redirect from Duchy of Lotharingia)
Franco-Prussian War, the northern portions of Lorraine were merged with Alsace to become the province of Alsace-Lorraine in the German Empire, which became...
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learning environments for the teaching of students under the direction of teachers. Most countries have systems of formal education, which is sometimes...
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The Alsace-Lorraine Regional Party (German: Elsaß-Lothringische Landespartei) was a Catholic political party in the Imperial Province of Alsace-Lorraine...
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Central Powers (redirect from Central Powers of World War I)
the German Empire incorporated the province of Alsace-Lorraine upon its founding in 1871. However, the province was still claimed by French revanchists...
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Upper Alsace (southern Alsace) was a landgraviate of the Holy Roman Empire centred on Ensisheim and Landser, north of the County of Ferrette (Pfirt)....
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Ivory Coast (redirect from Republic of Cote d'Ivoire)
War in 1871 and the subsequent annexation by Germany of the French province of Alsace–Lorraine initially caused the French government to abandon its colonial...
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Philip of Alsace, was count of Flanders from 1168 to 1191. During his rule Flanders prospered economically. He took part in two crusades and died of disease...
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François Simiand (category Academic staff of the Collège de France)
policy. After the war, he served for a year as the Director of Labor for the province of Alsace-Lorraine. In addition, he took up a more permanent position...
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department. After the ceding of his native region Alsace-Lorraine to Germany following the French defeat in the Franco-Prussian War of 1871, he decided to keep...
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Bartholdi served as a major of militia. In the war, Napoleon III was captured and deposed. Bartholdi's home province of Alsace was lost to the Prussians...
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Hispano-Suiza (category Aircraft engine manufacturers of France)
War I was in the form of a stork, the symbol of the French province of Alsace, taken from the squadron emblem painted on the side of a Hispano-Suiza powered...
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Georges Clemenceau (category Members of the 1st Chamber of Deputies of the French Third Republic)
for reparations, a transfer of colonies, strict rules to prevent a rearming process, as well as the restitution of Alsace–Lorraine, which had been annexed...
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Marie Leszczyńska (redirect from Marie Leszczynska of Poland)
the province of Alsace, which had been annexed by France, a place suggested by Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, a nephew of Louis XIV and Regent of the Kingdom...
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was part of a French attempt to conquer the province of Alsace, which had been lost as a consequence of having lost the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–1871...
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Jean-Baptiste Kléber (category People of the War of the First Coalition)
peace, designed a number of buildings. Jean-Baptiste Kléber was born on 9 March 1753 in Strasbourg, in the province of Alsace, where his father worked...
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Grand Est (redirect from Alsace-Champagne-Ardenne-Lorraine)
former administrative regions, Alsace, Champagne-Ardenne and Lorraine, on 1 January 2016 under the provisional name of Alsace-Champagne-Ardenne-Lorraine (pronounced...
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Colmar Pocket (redirect from Battle of the Colmar Pocket)
Poche de Colmar; German: Brückenkopf Elsass) was the area held in central Alsace, France, by the German Nineteenth Army from November 1944 to February 1945...
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François Christophe de Kellermann (redirect from Francois Kellermann, Duke of Valmy)
in Strasbourg and ennobled. He was the only son of a family living in the French province of Alsace. His father was François de Kellermann (or Johann...
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present-day French Bas-Rhin department. In the Middle Ages, what was then Alsace was divided into two districts, called Nordgau (“Nordgowe”, Unterelsass)...
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Colmar (redirect from Colmar, Alsace)
Est region of north-eastern France. The third-largest commune in Alsace (after Strasbourg and Mulhouse), it is the seat of the prefecture of the Haut-Rhin...
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Franco-Prussian War (1871) and the subsequent annexation of the French province of Alsace-Lorraine by Germany caused the French government to abandon its colonial...
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Regierungsbezirk (redirect from Government regions of Germany)
Bromberg, Province of Posen Danzig, Province of West Prussia (see Free City of Danzig) Lorraine, Imperial Land of Alsace-Lorraine Lower Alsace, Imperial...
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