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In 1871, after the Franco-Prussian War, the city, as part of the Imperial Territory of Alsace–Lorraine, became German again, until 1918 (end of World War I), when it reverted to France. Strasbourg was captured by the German army in June 1940 at the end of the Battle of France (World War II), and subsequently came under German control again ...
Topographic map of Alsace. Alsace has an area of 8,283 km 2, making it the smallest région of metropolitan France. It is almost four times longer than it is wide, corresponding to a plain between the Rhine in the east and the Vosges mountains in the west. It includes the départements of Haut-Rhin and Bas-Rhin (known previously as Sundgau and ...
French Army in Strasbourg in 1918. 1918 – Alsace returns to France. 1919 – Institut Européen d'Etudes Commerciales Supérieures de Strasbourg established. 1920 Musée historique de Strasbourg founded. City designated headquarters of Central Commission for Navigation on the Rhine. 1928 Aubette redecorated. Strasbourg Illkirch Graffenstaden ...
Strasbourg Airport; École nationale du génie de l'eau et de l'environnement de Strasbourg; École nationale supérieure d'ingénieurs Sud-Alsace; École nationale supérieure de chimie de Mulhouse; Template talk:Infobox French commune/Archive 2; Module:Location map/data/France Alsace; Module:Location map/data/France Alsace/doc
The arrondissement of Strasbourg (French: Arrondissement de Strasbourg; Alsatian: Arrondissement Strossburi) is an arrondissement of France in the Bas-Rhin department in the Grand Est region. It has 33 communes . [ 2 ]
The mayor of Strasbourg, Philippe-Frédéric de Dietrich, was decapitated by guillotine in December 1793. Women were not allowed to wear traditional costumes and Christian worship was forbidden. [18] Strasbourg's status as a free city was revoked by the French Revolution. Enragés, such as Eulogius Schneider, ran the city. During this time ...
The Province of Alsace (Province d'Alsace) was an administrative region of the Kingdom of France and one of the many provinces formed in the late 1600s. In 1648, the Landgraviate of Upper-Alsace was absorbed into the Kingdom of France and subsequently became the Province of Alsace, which it remain an integral part of for almost 150 years.
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.