Grand Est (redirect from Grand Est (region))
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...
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Alsace was the smallest administrative région in metropolitan France, consisting of the Bas-Rhin and Haut-Rhin departments. Territorial reform passed...
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Upper Rhine (category Rivers of Bas-Rhin)
Grand-Est Bas-Rhin, Haut-Rhin Switzerland Basel-Stadt The Upper Rhine tri-national region (French: Région Métropolitaine Trinationale du Rhin Supérieur,...
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Confederation of the Rhine (redirect from États confédérés du Rhin)
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...
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Strasbourg (redirect from Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin)
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...
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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...
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Brussels (redirect from Région de Bruxelles-Capitale)
officially the Brussels-Capital Region (French: Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; Dutch: Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest), is a region of Belgium comprising 19 municipalities...
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Mulhouse (category Communes of Haut-Rhin)
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...
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Munster cheese (category Haut-Rhin)
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...
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Mulhouse-Ville station (category Railway stations in Haut-Rhin)
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...
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Rhône–Rhine Canal (redirect from Canal du Rhône au Rhin)
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...
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Navigation of the Rhine (CCNR; French: Commission centrale pour la navigation du Rhin; German: Zentralkommission für die Rheinschifffahrt; Dutch: Centrale Commissie...
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Haguenau (redirect from Haguenau, Bas-Rhin)
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...
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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...
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(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...
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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...
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Colmar (category Communes of Haut-Rhin)
[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...
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Château du Haut-Koenigsbourg (category Castles in Bas-Rhin)
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...
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Rhine (category Rivers of Bas-Rhin)
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...
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Riquewihr (category Communes of Haut-Rhin)
Richewihr; German: Reichenweier [ˈʁaɪçn̩vaɪɐ] ) is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department in Grand Est in north-eastern France. A popular tourist attraction...
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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...
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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...
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address this problem, the parent "District de la région parisienne" ('district of the Paris region') was reorganised into several new departments from...
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Ill (France) (category Rivers of Bas-Rhin)
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...
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Sélestat (category Communes of Bas-Rhin)
Schlettstadt) is a commune in the Grand Est region of France. An administrative division (sous-préfecture) of the Bas-Rhin department, the town lies on the Ill...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Col de Saverne (category Bas-Rhin geography stubs)
mountains, near Saverne, which permits travel between the départements of Bas-Rhin and Moselle, and therefore between Alsace and Lorraine. Transport routes...
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Rhône (category Rivers of Occitania (administrative region))
"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...
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