- Upper Alsace
- Haut-Rhin department of France
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Upper Alsace
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Upper Alsace — Flag of the province of Haute Alsace. Upper Alsace, (German: Oberelsaß, French: Haute Alsace) was the name of a district ( Bezirk ) in the southern part of Alsace Lorraine (Elsaß Lothringen) when it was part of the German Empire from 1871 to 1918 … Wikipedia
Upper Alsace University — ( Université de Haute Alsace or UHA) is a multidisciplinary teaching and research centre based in the two towns of Mulhouse and Colmar.Today, UHA is the university of 8000 students in about a hundred courses, both basic and vocational . The… … Wikipedia
Alsace — ( fr. Alsace, pronounced|alzas; Alsatian and de. Elsass, pre 1996 German: Elsaß ; la. Alsatia) is one of the 26 regions of France, located on the eastern border of France, on the west bank of the upper Rhine, adjacent to Germany and Switzerland.… … Wikipedia
Alsace-Lorraine — ( de. Reichsland Elsaß Lothringen, generally Elsass Lothringen ) was a territorial entity created by the German Empire in 1871 after the annexation of most of Alsace and parts of Lorraine in the Franco Prussian War. The Alsatian part lay in the… … Wikipedia
Alsace-Lorraine — • The German Imperial Territory so known, and divided for State purposes into three civil districts Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Alsace Lorraine Alsace Lorraine … Catholic encyclopedia
Alsace — /al sas , says , al sas, says/; Fr. /annl zas /, n. a region and former province of France between the Vosges and the Rhine. Ancient, Alsatia. Cf. Alsace Lorraine. * * * ▪ region, France Introduction région of France encompassing the… … Universalium
ALSACE — ALSACE, former province of the Germanic (Holy Roman) Empire, and from 1648, of france , including the present department of Haut Rhin and Bas Rhin. Middle Ages The first evidence of Jews in Alsace is reported by benjamin of Tudela who mentions (c … Encyclopedia of Judaism
Alsace-Moselle — is the current legal name of the Alsace Lorraine territory, the part of France that was part of Germany from 1871 to 1919 (and then from 1940 to 1944–1945), consisting of the départements of Haut Rhin and Bas Rhin (both of which make up Alsace),… … Wikipedia
Upper Rhine Conference — The Upper Rhine Conference (more correctly, the Franco German Swiss Conference of the Upper Rhine) provides the institutional framework for cross border cooperation in the Upper Rhine region. It is the successor organization to the two regional… … Wikipedia
Upper Rhine — The Upper Rhine ( de. Oberrhein) is the part of the Rhine that flows northbound after Basel, Switzerland, along the Rhine rift, and then westward to Bingen, Germany. The section is marked by Rhine kilometers 170 to 529 (the scale begins in… … Wikipedia
