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Province of Alsace. Today part of. Republic of France. Upper Alsace [a] (southern Alsace) was a landgraviate of the Holy Roman Empire centred on Ensisheim and Landser, north of the County of Ferrette (Pfirt). The counts of Habsburg ruled the territory from the 1130s down to its cession to France in the 17th century.
Alsace (/ æ l ˈ s æ s /, US also / æ l ˈ s eɪ s, ˈ æ l s æ s /; 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.
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History of Alsace. Coordinates: 48°30′N 7°30′E. The history of Alsace has been influenced by the Rhine and its tributaries, a favorable climate, fertile loess soils, and the region's relative accessibility through and around the Vosges. It was first inhabited by early modern humans during the Paleolithic.
Paris is an unincorporated community in Jefferson and Jennings counties, Indiana, in the United States. History. A post office called Paris was established in 1820, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1841. The community was named for Paris, in France. References
Historical Note. In September 1818, the town of Paris, Indiana was laid out on land donated by Samuel S. Graham of Jennings County and Zachariah Tannehill of Jefferson County. Consisting of 36 lots, one-half of the town lots were in Jennings County and the other half were in Jefferson County. To avoid confusion in record keeping, the state ...
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Oberelsaß (or Upper Alsace, French: Haute-Alsace) was the southern part of the historical region Alsace or Elsass, inhabited originally by locals speaking Alemannic German. From 1871 to 1918, Bezirk Oberelsaß was a region ( Bezirk) in the southern part of the province of Elsaß-Lothringen in the German Empire.
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.
