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    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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    Rheinische Bundesstaaten; French: États confédérés du Rhin German: Rheinbund; French: Confédération du Rhin Hans A. Schmitt. "Germany Without Prussia: A Closer...
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    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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    Grand Est region of eastern France. Located at the border with Germany in the historic region of Alsace, it is the prefecture of the Bas-Rhin department...
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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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    Upper Rhine (category Rivers of Bas-Rhin)
    2 billion euros. The Upper Rhine tri-national region (French: Région Métropolitaine Trinationale du Rhin Supérieur, German: Trinationale Metropolregion...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    (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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    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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    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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    a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Grand Est in north-eastern France. It is situated 8 km south of Strasbourg. Eschau's main sight is the Église Saint-Trophime...
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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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    -bɛʁ-, -bak]) is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Grand Est in north-eastern France. Communes of the Bas-Rhin department "Répertoire national des...
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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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    Aschbach is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in the Grand Est region of north-eastern France. Aschbach is located some 13 km south by south-east of...
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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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    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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    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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  • Sundgau (category Geography of Haut-Rhin)
    German: [ˈzʊntɡaʊ]) is a geographical territory in the southern Alsace region (Haut Rhin and Belfort), on the eastern edge of France. The name is derived from...
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    German: Elsässer Wein; Haut Rhin Alsatian: d'r Wii vum Elsàss; Bas Rhin Alsatian: de Win vum Elsàss) is produced in the Alsace region in France and is 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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