Alsace-Lorraine facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Imperial Territory of Alsace-Lorraine
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| Imperial Territory of the German Empire | |||||||||
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.svg) Alsace-Lorraine within the German Empire |
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| Anthem | |||||||||
| Elsässisches Fahnenlied "The Alsatian Flag's song" |
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| Capital | Straßburg (Strasbourg) | ||||||||
| Area | |||||||||
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• 1910
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14,496 km2 (5,597 sq mi) | ||||||||
| Population | |||||||||
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• 1910
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1,874,014 | ||||||||
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| • Type | Federal territory | ||||||||
| Reichsstatthalter | |||||||||
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• 1871–1879
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Eduard von Möller (first) | ||||||||
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• 1918
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Rudolf Schwander (last) | ||||||||
| Legislature | Landtag | ||||||||
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• Treaty of Frankfurt
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10 May 1871 | ||||||||
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• Disestablished
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1918 | ||||||||
| 28 June 1919 | |||||||||
| Political subdivisions | Bezirk Lothringen, Oberelsass, Unterelsass | ||||||||
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| Today part of |  France |
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The Imperial Territory of Alsace-Lorraine (German: Reichsland Elsaß-Lothringen or Elsass-Lothringen, French: Terre d'Empire d'Alsace-Lorraine or Alsace-Moselle) was a territory created by the German Empire in 1871 after its victory in the Franco-Prussian War. It was made up of almost all of the French region of Alsace and about a quarter of Lorraine, hence its name. France took it back in 1918 and it became part of that country as a result of Treaty of Versailles in 1919. Nazi Germany de facto took it back in 1940 but France took it back in 1945.
The territory has been part of France since then. In 2016 it became part of the Region of Grand Est.
Images for kids
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An 1898 American political cartoon that depicts the dispute over Alsace-Lorraine as a medieval romance. -
The neo-Romanesque Metz railway station, built in 1908. Kaiser Wilhelm II instigated the construction of various buildings in Alsace–Lorraine supposedly representative of German architecture.
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German patrol during the Saverne Affair
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An Alsatian woman in traditional dress and a French officer, c. 1919
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Metz and the Lorraine returned to France, front page of Le Petit Journal dated 8 December 1918
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Monument to the Malgré-nous in Obernai, Alsace
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Spatial distribution of dialects in Alsace–Lorraine before the expansion of standard French in the 20th century
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Photo of a statue in the Place Maginot Nancy that personifies the loss of Alsace as separation of a mother and daughter. -
The Black Stain (1887) by Albert Bettannier. -
The general government of Elsass (1875) by A. Petermann. -
1887 German map, using German place-names, of Alsace-Lorraine.
See also
In Spanish: Territorio Imperial de Alsacia y Lorena para niños
