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When hostilities were concluded in 1648 with the Treaty of Westphalia, most of Alsace was recognized as part of France, although some towns remained independent. The treaty stipulations regarding Alsace were complex.
After the 1870–71 Franco-Prussian War, Alsace was annexed by Germany and became a part of the 1871 unified German Empire as a formal "Emperor's Land". After World War I the victorious Allies detached it from Germany and the province became part of the Third French Republic.
The administrative incorporation of Alsace into France was completed by the French Revolution (1789), when the area was administratively divided into the two départements of Haut-Rhin and Bas-Rhin, and its existence as a separate province was ended.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
May 31, 2024 · Historically, the area was at the centre of Charlemagne’s Frankish empire in the 9th century and later became part of the Germanys of the Holy Roman Empire, remaining a German territory under various sovereignties up to the Thirty Years’ War.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
- Human civilization in Alsace dates back to the prehistoric era. Nobody is entirely sure how old Alsace is. The biggest city, Strasbourg on the Rhine River, has had excavations with artifacts from as early as the Neolithic era (12000BC).
- Julius Caesar and the Romans conquered the region. In 58 BC, Julius Caesar and the Roman Empire conquered Alsace. But by the fall of the Roman Empire, it was the Alemanni tribes of Germanic origin, who controlled this area around the Upper Rhine river.
- Clovis, the King of the Franks, would make it part of what became known as France. In 496AD however, King Clovis and the Franks (as the people of France were known at the time) conquered Alsace.
- Charlemagne united France, Germany and Alsace. They say that every European is related to King Charlemagne. He had at least 18 children, so he certainly knew how to get around.
Alsace–Lorraine was formally ceded back to France in 1920 as part of the Treaty of Versailles following Germany's defeat in the war, but already annexed in practice at the war end in 1918. [2] Geographically, Alsace–Lorraine encompassed most of Alsace and the Moselle department of Lorraine .
Alsace-Lorraine, Area, eastern France. It is now usually considered to include the present-day French departments of Haut-Rhin, Bas-Rhin, and Moselle. The area was ceded by France to Germany in 1871 after the Franco-Prussian War.
