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In response to the final defeat of Napoleon I of France in the "hundred day" restoration in 1815, Alsace along with other French frontier provinces was under military occupation by foreign forces from 1815 to 1818, [32] including over 280,000 soldiers and 90,000 horses in Bas-Rhin alone.
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Strasbourg, Alsace, France. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
When the Maginot Line was built, the Sous-secteur fortifié de Strasbourg (fortified sub-sector of Strasbourg) was laid out on the city's territory as a part of the Secteur fortifié du Bas-Rhin, one of the sections of the Line. Blockhouses and casemates were built along the Grand Canal d'Alsace and the Rhine in the Robertsau forest and the ...
Bas-Rhin (French pronunciation: [bɑ ʁɛ̃] ⓘ) [3] is a département in Alsace which is a part of the Grand Est super-region of France. The name means 'Lower Rhine ', referring to its lower altitude among the two French Rhine departments: it is downstream of the Haut-Rhin (Upper Rhine) department.
After the expansion of France into much of Alsace and the annexation of the Duchy of Lorraine in 1766, the County of Saarwerden was an enclave of the Holy Roman Empire in France. At the time, Nassau-Saarbrücken measured about 12 square miles and it had 22,000 inhabitants. This made it one of the smallest principalities in the Holy Roman Empire.
Oberelsaß (Upper Alsace), whose capital was Kolmar, had a land area of 3,525 km 2 (1,361 sq mi) and corresponds precisely to the current department of Haut-Rhin; Unterelsaß, (Lower Alsace), whose capital was Strassburg, had a land area of 4,755 km 2 (1,836 sq mi) and corresponds precisely to the current department of Bas-Rhin
On 1 January 2021, the departments of Bas-Rhin and Haut-Rhin merged into the new European Collectivity of Alsace but remained part of the region Grand Est. Alsatian is an Alemannic dialect closely related to Swabian, although since World War II most Alsatians primarily speak French. Internal and international migration since 1945 has also ...
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.