Search results for "Alsace" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • his own. She then retired to Selz Abbey in Alsace and devoted herself to prayer ... she herself had founded c. 991 at Selz in Alsace. There, she took her final ...
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  • :VIII. Alsace-Lorraine :France had lost the Alsace-Lorraine region to Germany following the ...
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  • , which signed over the industrialized region of Alsace-Lorraine to Germany. Ever since relations had been at an all time low. France, worried about ...
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  • work is the Isenheim Altarpiece in Colmar, Alsace (now in France). ... monastery at Isenheim (in southern Alsace), asked the artist to paint ...
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  • Toul, Verdun in Lorraine, the Habsburg lands in Alsace (the Sundgau), and the cities of the Décapole in Alsace (but not Strasbourg, the Bishopric ...
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  • of St. Odile at Hohenbourg, near Strausbourg in Alsace, a monastery founded possibly as early as the 600s. She was tasked to institute needed reforms ...
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  • up French nationality only in 1919, after Alsace-Lorraine had been given back ... University in Berlin and in Strasbourg in Alsace (then Germany). ...
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  • resistance. He ended up leading Brigade Alsace-Lorraine in defense of Strasbourg ... in 1944 while Malraux was fighting in Alsace, having slipped while boarding ...
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  • | birth_place = Kaysersberg, Alsace-Lorraine | death_date ... Albert Schweitzer was born in Kaysersberg, Alsace-Lorraine, Germany ...
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  • 1848), born Johann Ludwig Adam in Muttersholtz, Alsace), also a composer and a professor at the Paris Conservatoire. His mother was the daughter of ...
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  • white ancestors came from Strasbourg in Alsace. The family was relatively ... in France, notably in the battles of Alsace. In 1944 he was wounded at ...
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  • Around 1000 C.E., Duke Gérard d'Alsace, the founder of the duchy of Lorraine, decided to set up a small fortified town named Nanciacum ...
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  • * Alsace-Lorraine—the territories that were ceded to Germany in ... Clemenceau demanded the return of Alsace-Lorraine to France, but also ...
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  • ===Champagne • Lorraine• Alsace=== as well as the famous Quiche Lorraine. Alsace is heavily influenced by ...
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  • Empire). From southwestern Germany (mainly Alsace, Breisgau, Aargau and Thurgau ... scattered possessions in the southern Alsace, south-western Germany and ...
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  • Beatus Rhenanus was born August 22, 1485, in Schlettstadt, Alsace, Germany. Rhenanus's father, Bild, was a prosperous butcher from Rheinau ...
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  • whilst General de Coignes protected Alsace against surprise with a further ... to the French—an Allied incursion into Alsace and an attack on the city ...
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  • settlement, almost all of the territory of Alsace-Lorraine was taken by Prussia ... To take pressure from the expected German attack into Alsace-Lorraine ...
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  • Rhine forms the border between France (Alsace) and Germany (Baden-Württemberg ... On the French side, the Grand Canal d'Alsace was dug, which carries a ...
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  • Category:Life sciences Category:Food Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Lifestyle [[Image:NCI bacon.jpg|thumb|200 px|Fried bacon]] ...
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