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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 ...13 KB (2,011 words) - 05:49, 15 June 2023
- :VIII. Alsace-Lorraine :France had lost the Alsace-Lorraine region to Germany following the ...13 KB (1,920 words) - 06:38, 1 April 2024
- , which signed over the industrialized region of Alsace-Lorraine to Germany. Ever since relations had been at an all time low. France, worried about ...9 KB (1,394 words) - 19:48, 26 March 2020
- work is the Isenheim Altarpiece in Colmar, Alsace (now in France). ... monastery at Isenheim (in southern Alsace), asked the artist to paint ...14 KB (2,125 words) - 16:57, 7 November 2022
- Toul, Verdun in Lorraine, the Habsburg lands in Alsace (the Sundgau), and the cities of the Décapole in Alsace (but not Strasbourg, the Bishopric ...15 KB (2,168 words) - 19:34, 15 August 2023
- 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 ...14 KB (2,145 words) - 22:37, 12 February 2022
- up French nationality only in 1919, after Alsace-Lorraine had been given back ... University in Berlin and in Strasbourg in Alsace (then Germany). ...19 KB (2,911 words) - 21:29, 16 April 2023
- resistance. He ended up leading Brigade Alsace-Lorraine in defense of Strasbourg ... in 1944 while Malraux was fighting in Alsace, having slipped while boarding ...14 KB (2,092 words) - 20:07, 26 July 2023
- | birth_place = Kaysersberg, Alsace-Lorraine | death_date ... Albert Schweitzer was born in Kaysersberg, Alsace-Lorraine, Germany ...33 KB (4,954 words) - 05:02, 17 June 2023
- 1848), born Johann Ludwig Adam in Muttersholtz, Alsace), also a composer and a professor at the Paris Conservatoire. His mother was the daughter of ...7 KB (994 words) - 06:12, 15 June 2023
- 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 ...17 KB (2,551 words) - 15:25, 6 October 2022
- 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 ...10 KB (1,508 words) - 20:43, 9 April 2023
- * Alsace-Lorraine—the territories that were ceded to Germany in ... Clemenceau demanded the return of Alsace-Lorraine to France, but also ...20 KB (3,094 words) - 16:26, 2 May 2023
- ===Champagne • Lorraine• Alsace=== as well as the famous Quiche Lorraine. Alsace is heavily influenced by ...35 KB (5,382 words) - 10:59, 11 April 2024
- Empire). From southwestern Germany (mainly Alsace, Breisgau, Aargau and Thurgau ... scattered possessions in the southern Alsace, south-western Germany and ...24 KB (3,568 words) - 13:21, 24 January 2023
- Beatus Rhenanus was born August 22, 1485, in Schlettstadt, Alsace, Germany. Rhenanus's father, Bild, was a prosperous butcher from Rheinau ...12 KB (1,792 words) - 10:18, 26 September 2023
- 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 ...50 KB (7,770 words) - 11:32, 20 September 2023
- settlement, almost all of the territory of Alsace-Lorraine was taken by Prussia ... To take pressure from the expected German attack into Alsace-Lorraine ...61 KB (9,426 words) - 14:18, 1 October 2022
- 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 ...60 KB (9,463 words) - 23:58, 17 March 2023
- Category:Life sciences Category:Food Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Lifestyle [[Image:NCI bacon.jpg|thumb|200 px|Fried bacon]] ...17 KB (2,674 words) - 05:35, 26 August 2023
- by a sniper in Piedmont Valley, France (near Alsace-Lorraine) during World War II. ==Main Street and Babbitt== After traveling throughout the ...15 KB (2,252 words) - 22:29, 29 January 2023
- 1764. In 1767, he worked on a geological survey of Alsace-Lorraine. He was elected a member of the French Academy of Sciences, France's most elite ...17 KB (2,470 words) - 06:42, 31 July 2023
- plan, Plan XVII, was intended to capture Alsace-Lorraine following the outbreak ... The Army of Alsace captured Mulhouse but abandoned it to reinforce ...57 KB (8,515 words) - 17:19, 4 May 2023
- labor in the fortress of Asperg. He escaped to Alsace, and, after visiting France and England, returned in 1824 to finish his sentence, finally being ...19 KB (2,994 words) - 11:05, 11 April 2024
- the past including an area from Alsace to Tyrol—until it was handed over to the Austrian House of Habsburg in 1490. Shortly after that the university ...21 KB (2,957 words) - 05:02, 17 June 2023
- Simon Marrix), had come from French-speaking Alsace. The brothers were talented musically from an early age. Harpo, especially, could play nearly any ...20 KB (3,216 words) - 15:56, 7 November 2022
- in 1877. Charles Borach, her father, set off from Alsace, France during the late 1870s or early 1880s. When they met in Manhattan, Rose was working at ...19 KB (2,934 words) - 00:41, 25 March 2024
- Prussian War of 1870 to 1871, and the loss of Alsace and Lorraine. The Begum's Millions (Les Cinq cents millions de la Begum) of 1879 gives a highly ...19 KB (2,945 words) - 21:07, 4 October 2022
- to France all Habsburg lands and claims in Alsace and the petty German states ... under Montecuccoli, drove them out of Alsace and back across the Rhine ...62 KB (10,084 words) - 04:10, 4 November 2022
- work of two immigrant makers, Jacob Kirckman (from Alsace) and Burkat Shudi (from Switzerland). The harpsichords by these builders, built for ...23 KB (3,517 words) - 20:32, 29 January 2022
- Eugene Debs was born to parents from Colmar, Alsace, France; he was born on November 5, 1855, and lived most of his life in Terre Haute, Indiana ...21 KB (3,204 words) - 04:16, 23 March 2024
- Juniper is the common name for any of various evergreen, coniferous trees or shrubs comprising the genus Juniperus of the cypress family Cupressaceae ...23 KB (3,212 words) - 21:18, 4 October 2022
- States 7th Army and the French 1st Army in the Alsace region on the west bank of the Rhine. Himmler held this post until early 1945, when Russian advances ...23 KB (3,561 words) - 16:24, 15 May 2024
- In 610 Theudebert had extorted the Duchy of Alsace from Theuderic, beginning a long period of conflict over which kingdom was to have the region ...50 KB (7,783 words) - 08:59, 6 October 2022
- Writing in the midst of the dispute concerning the Alsace-Lorraine region, he declared that the existence of a nation was based on a "daily referendum ...23 KB (3,624 words) - 19:32, 13 February 2024
- captured Landau in September, but the threat to Alsace was relieved by the entrance of the Elector of Bavaria into the war on the French side. Prince ...29 KB (4,611 words) - 22:54, 3 May 2023
- mission and sent to the critical area of Alsace to shore up the disintegrating ... Eulogius Schneider, the powerful leader of Alsace's largest city, Strasbourg ...66 KB (9,644 words) - 18:02, 26 November 2022
- (mostly Huguenots & German Lutherans in Alsace) and Jews still lived in France at the beginning of the Revolution. The Edict of Versailles, ...27 KB (3,836 words) - 09:01, 28 January 2024
- for the return of the disputed territory of Alsace-Lorraine to France. This meant that victory would fulfil one war aim that was very close to the ...28 KB (4,425 words) - 22:45, 28 November 2022
- officially to the U.S. Army, the Ardennes-Alsace Campaign. Several historical ... for its very life on three sides in Alsace. With casualties mounting ...55 KB (8,725 words) - 01:44, 26 September 2023
- , Hesse, Saxony, Westphalia, Franconia, Koblenz, Alsace-Burgundy, An der Etsch und im Gebirge (Tyrol), Utrecht, Lorraine, and Austria. Outside of German ...34 KB (5,036 words) - 15:01, 30 April 2023
- Ouvrage Schoenenbourg along the Maginot Line in Alsace. Notice the retractable turret in the left foreground.]] In modern times, the notion of ...33 KB (5,040 words) - 11:07, 6 March 2024
- Wilde spent his last days in Paris at the Hôtel d'Alsace, now known simply as L'Hôtel. Just a month before his death he is quoted ...34 KB (5,298 words) - 04:37, 18 November 2022
- from Western Europe (most notably Alsace, Lorraine, German Countries, Moravia, Bohemia and Moldavia). Historians of the Soviet Union attempted ...42 KB (6,381 words) - 01:37, 26 September 2023
- the same varieties found in the French regions of Alsace and Burgundy. In the northeastern region of the state, particularly around Pendleton, both irrigated ...35 KB (5,141 words) - 10:41, 11 March 2023
- # the Manush (also known as Sinti, mostly in Alsace and other regions of France and Germany; often traveling showmen and circus people, and ...37 KB (5,594 words) - 21:36, 16 April 2023
- along with Amish, came from Switzerland and the Alsace-Lorraine area. The Swiss-German Mennonites that migrated to North America in the eighteenth ...44 KB (6,423 words) - 10:32, 10 March 2023
- were areas that had been part of Prussia: Alsace-Lorraine to France; Eupen and Malmedy to Belgium; North Schleswig to Denmark; the Memel Territory ...46 KB (6,764 words) - 08:22, 2 December 2022
- Metz in June 1147, led by Louis, Thierry of Alsace, Renaut I of Bar, Amadeus III of Savoy and his half-brother William V of Montferrat, William VII ...44 KB (6,838 words) - 00:35, 6 March 2024
- as a result of the French loss of Alsace-Lorraine to Germany in 1871, a series of diplomatic conferences managed to mediate disputes that threatened ...38 KB (5,417 words) - 23:52, 28 April 2023
