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Also Known As Elsass

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Alsace
Ill River, Strasbourg, France
France: wine regions
Civil engineering
Strasbourg I, II, and III, Universities of
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Major Events

Peace of Westphalia
Peace of Westphalia
British Cavalry at the Battle of Mons
Battle of the Frontiers
Pyrenees, Peace of the
Peace of the Pyrenees
treaties of Rastatt and Baden

Related Places

France
France
Tour the Strasbourg's streets and regard the Cathedral of Notre-Dame and the Council of Europe's headquarters
Strasbourg
France
Mulhouse: town hall
Mulhouse
France
Ill River, Strasbourg, France
Grand Est
region, France

Key People

Hans Holbein, the Elder
German painter
St. Adelaide
empress of Italy
Meir Of Rothenburg
Jewish rabbi and scholar
Johann Lambert, detail of a lithograph by Gottfried Englemann, after a portrait by Pierre-Roch Vigneron
Johann Heinrich Lambert
Swiss-German scientist and philosopher
Josel of Rosheim
German Jewish advocate
François-René-Auguste Mallarmé
French revolutionary
Ekkehard IV
German historian