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The territory was then returned to France 48 years later after the Treaty of Versailles in 1919. The border changed again in 1941 when Nazi Germany de facto annexed the region (without international legal recognition, or treaty). The current border was re-established after the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II.
The new border between France and Germany mainly followed the geo-linguistic divide between French and German dialects, except in a few valleys of the Alsatian side of the Vosges mountains, the city of Metz and its region and in the area of Château-Salins (formerly in the Meurthe département), which were annexed by Germany although most ...
According to Meyers Enzyklopädisches Lexikon, [104] Central Europe is a part of Europe composed of Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Germany, Hungary, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, Romania and Switzerland, and northern marginal regions of Italy and Yugoslavia (northern states – Croatia and Slovenia), as well as northeastern ...
This is a list of articles holding galleries of maps of present-day countries and dependencies. The list includes all countries listed in the List of countries , the French overseas departments, the Spanish and Portuguese overseas regions and inhabited overseas dependencies.
1.3 Cities in Europe. 1.4 Villages in Europe. 1.5 Geographic features of Europe. 2 History of Europe. Toggle History of Europe subsection. 2.1 History by country.
Strasbourg (UK: / ˈ s t r æ z b ɜːr ɡ /, [5] US: / ˈ s t r ɑː s b ʊər ɡ, ˈ s t r ɑː z-,-b ɜːr ɡ /; [6] French: ⓘ; German: Straßburg [ˈʃtʁaːsbʊʁk] ⓘ [7] [8]) is the prefecture and largest city of the Grand Est region of eastern France, in the historic region of Alsace.
The border between the modern states of Austria and Germany (German: Grenze zwischen Deutschland und Österreich) has a length of 815.9 km (507.0 mi), [1] [2] or 817.0 km (507.7 mi) [3] respectively. It is the longest international border of Austria and the tied longest border of Germany with another country (the other one being the border with ...
Note: Italy's capital, Rome, is the country's largest city if only the municipality (comune) is considered. Greater Milan is the largest metropolitan area in Italy. Brussels is considered to be the largest city of Belgium, according to the population of the Brussels-Capital Region. The population of the City of Brussels is ~175,000.