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    AlsaceLorraine (German: Elsaß-Lothringen), officially the Imperial Territory of Alsace-Lorraine (German: Reichsland Elsaß-Lothringen), was a former territory...
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    Parliament in 2014 resulted in the merger of the Alsace administrative region with Champagne-Ardenne and Lorraine to form Grand Est. On 1 January 2021, the departments...
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    The November 1918 insurgency in Alsace-Lorraine is a series of events which occurred when the region of AlsaceLorraine passed from German to French sovereignty...
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    both guaranteed by the 1911 constitution of Alsace-Lorraine. While many toponyms of German etymology in Lorraine were adapted to the High German standard...
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    The territory of the former Alsace-Lorraine, legally known as Alsace-Moselle, is a region in the eastern part of France, bordering with Germany. Its principal...
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    eastern France. Located at the border with Germany in the historic region of Alsace, it is the prefecture of the Bas-Rhin department. It is the official seat...
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    administrative regions, Alsace, Champagne-Ardenne and Lorraine, on 1 January 2016 under the provisional name of Alsace-Champagne-Ardenne-Lorraine (pronounced [alzas...
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    Lorraine Lotharingia divided, around 1000 AD   Alsace, ceded to Suebia (Swabia) in 925   Upper Lorraine after 928   Lower Lorraine after 977 Lorraine...
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    November 1918 in Alsace-Lorraine Alemannic separatism Grand Est#Opposition Alsace d'abord (fr:Espace nouveau jeune, fr:Jeune Alsace) Unser Land fr:Union...
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  • The Alsace-Lorraine Party (German: Elsass-Lothringen Partei; also known as Elsässer) was a political party in the German Empire. The party first contested...
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    The Protestant Reformed Church of Alsace and Lorraine (French: Église protestante réformée d'Alsace et de Lorraine (EPRAL); German: Reformierte Kirche...
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  • Between the 16th and 18th centuries, Alsace and Lorraine, territories of the Holy Roman Empire located between the Meuse and Rhine rivers, were annexed...
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  • self-proclaimed government of Alsace-Lorraine declared its independence as the "Republic of Alsace-Lorraine". French troops entered Alsace less than two weeks later...
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    Duke of Lorraine in the 11th century. Particularly since the introduction of new French region Grand Est, the traditional Rot un Wiss flag of Alsace has been...
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    population of Alsace was approximately 22,500, about 3% of the provincial population. Another 7500 Jews lived in neighboring Lorraine. Together they...
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    1918, the French occupied AlsaceLorraine. The French wasted no time in promptly proclaiming the reunion of Alsace-Lorraine with France. Many of the Alsatians...
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    the Augsburg Confession of Alsace and Lorraine (French: Église protestante de la Confession d’Augsbourg d’Alsace et de Lorraine, EPCAAL; German: Protestantische...
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    following 1871, when the Legion welcomed a great deal of those from Alsace and Lorraine, whom became stateless due to the annexation of their regions by...
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    "Lorraine (My Beautiful Alsace Lorraine)" is a World War I era song released in 1917. Al Bryan wrote the lyrics. Fred Fisher composed the music. It was...
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    Gabon, marking the end of the Wassoulou Empire. The annexation of Alsace and Lorraine by Germany in 1871 led to numerous volunteers from the two regions...
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    Lorraine. In 1871, after the Franco-Prussian War, the northern portions of Lorraine were merged with Alsace to become the province of Alsace-Lorraine...
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  • Conrad Schlumberger (2 October 1878 in Gebweiler (Alsace-Lorraine) – 9 May 1936 in Stockholm) and Emile Henry Marcel Schlumberger (21 June 1884 in Gebweiler...
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    Allied supreme commander Marshal Ferdinand Foch, and the reconstructed AlsaceLorraine memorial, depicting a German Eagle impaled by a sword. The Armistice...
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    wanted to avenge the French defeat and reclaim the lost territories of Alsace-Lorraine. Revanchism draws its strength from patriotic and retributionist thought...
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  • In 2020, oil reserves in France were equivalent to 1% of its annual consumption. These reserves in the geological sense (extractable oil present in deposits)...
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    as the legitimate government of all of Metropolitan France except AlsaceLorraine. The French were also permitted to retain control of all of their non-European...
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    Treaty of Frankfurt (1871) (category History of Alsace)
    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 of the French...
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    France's loss of Alsace-Lorraine to Germany in 1871. The German high command knew that France would muster its forces to go into Alsace-Lorraine. Aside from...
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    Historical flag of Alsace 1912–1918 Flag of Alsace-Lorraine, adopted on the 25th of June 1912 and flag of the Republic of Alsace-Lorraine (1918) 1871–1918...
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    war indemnity, as well as most of Alsace and parts of Lorraine, which became the Imperial Territory of Alsace-Lorraine (Reichsland Elsaß-Lothringen). The...
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