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The Petite France (French pronunciation: [pətit fʁɑ̃s]), in Alsatian dialect: Französel (also known as the Quartier des Tanneurs; German: Gerberviertel; "Tanner's Quarter") is the south-western part of the Grande Île of Strasbourg in Alsace in eastern France, the most central and characteristic island of the city that forms the historic center.
The border between the modern states of France and Germany has a length of 450 km (280 mi). The southern portion of the border, between Saint-Louis at the border with Switzerland and Lauterbourg , follows the River Rhine ( Upper Rhine ) in a south-to-north direction through the Upper Rhine Plain .
During the occupation of France in World War II, German soldiers occupied Mont-Saint-Michel, where they used St. Aubert church as a lookout post. The island was a major attraction for German tourists and soldiers, with around 325,000 German tourists from July 18, 1940, to the end of the occupation of France.
The Château du Haut-Kœnigsbourg in the Vosges was built during the 12th century. The Château du Grand-Geroldseck, now in ruins. The massif known in Latin as Vosago mons or Vosego silva, sometimes Vogesus mons, was extended to the vast woods covering the region. Later, German speakers referred to the same region as Vogesen or Wasgenwald.
Mistral wind blowing near Marseille.In the centre is the Château d'If.. The mistral (Catalan: mestral, Corsican: maestrale, Croatian: maestral, Greek: μαΐστρος, Italian: maestrale, Maltese: majjistral) is a strong, cold, northwesterly wind that blows from southern France into the Gulf of Lion in the northern Mediterranean. [1]
Alsace (/ æ l ˈ s æ s /, [5] US also / æ l ˈ s eɪ s, ˈ æ l s æ s /; [6] [7] French: ⓘ) [8] is a cultural region and a territorial collectivity in eastern France, on the west bank of the upper Rhine next to Germany and Switzerland.
Belgium-Germany relations are the bilateral relations between Belgium and Germany.Both of these are neighbouring countries and share a common 204 kilometer long landborder. [1]
Source: L.E. Marissal for 1716, 1789, 1801, 1805, 1817, 1830 and 1842, [46] Comte du Muy for 1764, [47] Ldh/EHESS/Cassini until 2006 [18] and INSEE from 2007 [48] The evolution of the number of inhabitants is known through the population censuses carried out in the town since 1793 and the research study of Louis-Edmond Marissal, Clerk of the ...