Ads
related to: beautiful towns in alsace france for sale zillow homes for sale arizona
Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Colmar (French: Colmar, pronounced; Alsatian: Colmer; German: Colmar or Kolmar) is a city and commune in the Haut-Rhin department and Alsace region of north-eastern France.The third-largest commune in Alsace (after Strasbourg and Mulhouse), it is the seat of the prefecture of the Haut-Rhin department and of the subprefecture of the Colmar-Ribeauvillé arrondissement.
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km 2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. Eguisheim (French: [egisaim] ⓘ; [ 3 ] German: Egisheim; Alsatian: Egsa) is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department in Grand Est in north-eastern France. It lies in the historical region of Alsace (German: Elsass).
Mulhouse (pronounced [myluz] ⓘ; Alsatian: Mìlhüsa [mɪlˈhyːsa]; German: Mülhausen [myːlˈhaʊzn̩] ⓘ, meaning " mill house") is a French city of the European Collectivity of Alsace (Haut-Rhin department, in the Grand Est region of France). It is near the France–Switzerland border and France–Germany border. It is the largest city ...
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: ⓘ; Low Alemannic German/Alsatian: Elsàss; German: Elsass (German spelling before 1996: Elsaß) ⓘ; Latin: Alsatia) is a cultural region and a territorial collectivity in eastern France, on the west bank of the upper Rhine next to Germany and Switzerland.
Strasbourg (UK: / ˈstræzbɜːrɡ /, [ 5 ] US: / ˈstrɑːsbʊərɡ, ˈstrɑːz -, - bɜːrɡ /; [ 6 ]French: [stʁasbuʁ] ⓘ; German: Straßburg [ˈʃtʁaːsbʊʁk] ⓘ; [ 7 ][ 8 ]) is the prefecture and largest city of the Grand Est region of eastern France, at the border with Germany in the historic region of Alsace.
Flourishing throughout the middle ages and Renaissance, it was conquered by Louis XIV in 1681. After having changed nationality four times between 1870 and 1945, Strasbourg today is a symbol of Franco-German reconciliation and European integration. The following is a detailed history of Strasbourg, France.
Below is a list of the historic German language exonyms for towns and village in the Alsace region of France (German: Elsaß) used prior to the annexation of the region by France during the reign of King Louis XIV of France in 1681 and again from 1870 to 1918 and from 1940 to 1945, when Alsace was re-annexed to Germany. Alsatian names used ...
Wissembourg (French pronunciation: [visɑ̃buʁ] ⓘ; South Franconian: Weisseburch [ˈvaɪsəbʊʁç]; German: Weißenburg [ˈvaɪsn̩bʊʁk] ⓘ) is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Grand Est in northeastern France. [ 3 ] Wissembourg was a sub-prefecture of the department until 2015. [ 4 ] The name Wissembourg is a Gallicized version ...
Ads
related to: beautiful towns in alsace france for sale zillow homes for sale arizona