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Alsace-Lorraine

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Native NameReichsland Elsaß-Lothringen
Conventional Long NameImperial territory of Alsace-Lorraine
Common NameAlsace-Lorraine
NationGerman Empire
Status TextProvince of the German Empire
Government TypeProvince
Title DeputyReichsstatthalter
Deputy1Edwin Freiherr
Year Deputy11879 � 1885
Deputy2Rudolf Schwander
Year Deputy21918
LegislatureLandtag
CapitalStrasbourg
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National AnthemElsässisches Fahnenlied
"The Alsatian Flag's song"
TodayFrance
Year Start1871
Year End1918
Event StartTreaty of Frankfurt
Date Start10 May 1871
Event EndRepublic proclaimed
Date End10 November 1918
Event1Saverne Affair
Date Event11913
Event2World War I
Date Event228 June 1914
Life Span1871 � 1918
EraNew Imperialism / WWI
Event PostTreaty of Versailles
Date Post28 June 1919
Image FlagFlag of Alsace-Lorraine (1891 � 1918).svg
Image Borderborder
Flag TypeFlag
Image CoatImperial Coat of arms of Alsace-Lorraine.svg
Symbol TypeImperial Coat of arms
Image Map CaptionThe Imperial territory of Alsace-Lorraine.
P1Third French Republic
Flag P1Flag of France.svg
Border P1border
S1Republic of Alsace-Lorraine
Flag S1Flag of the Republic of Alsace-Lorraine.svg
Border S1border
Stat Year11910
Stat Area114496
Stat Pop11874014

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The Imperial territory of Alsace-Lorraine ( , generally Elsass-Lothringen) was a territory created by the German Empire in 1871 after the annexation of most of Alsace and the Moselle region of Lorraine in the Franco-Prussian War. The Alsatian part lay in the Rhine Valley on the west bank of the Rhine River and east of the Vosges Mountains. The Lorraine section was in the upper Moselle valley to the north of the Vosges Mountains.

These territories had become part of Eastern Francia in 921 during the reign of King Louis the German, and later became part of the Holy Roman Empire. Their population spoke Germanic and Romance dialects. Those in Alsace spoke in their vast majority Germanic dialects, in particular Alsatian, an Alemannic German dialect similar to that spoken on the opposite bank of the Rhine, while those in Lorraine were divided roughly equally between those who spoke the Romance Lorrain dialect and those who spoke Franconian German dialects. The area had gradually become part of France between 1552, when Metz was ceded to the Kingdom of France, and 1798, when the Republic of Mulhouse joined the French Republic. After the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, the area was annexed by the newly-created German Empire in 1871 by the Treaty of Frankfurt and became a Reichsland.

French troops entered Alsace-Lorraine in November 1918 at the end of the World War I and the territory reverted to France at the Treaty of Versailles of 1919.

The area was de facto annexed by Nazi Germany in 1940 (although no official de jure annexation took place), but reverted to France in 1944-1945 at the end of World War II and has remained a part of France since.

In 1871, the Reichsland of Elsaß-Lothringen was made up of 93% of Alsace (7% remained French) and 26% of Lorraine (74% remained French). For historical reasons, specific legal dispositions are still applied in the territory in form of a local law. In relation to its special legal status, the territory has since its reversion to France been referred to as Alsace-Moselle.

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Reichstag election results 1874-1912 :
1550 1532 1567 1564 1604 1641 1719 1815 1874
20.6 21.6 21.0 19.9 19.5 20.1 20.3 20.3 21.0 21.7 21.9 22.3
76.5 64.2 64.1 54.2 54.7 83.3 60.4 76.4 67.8 77.3 87.3 84.9
0.0 0.2 2.8 0.0 12.5 14.7 10.0 4.8
0.2 12.0 0.8 1.5 6.6 7.6 6.1 4.1 3.5 2.7 2.1
2.1 0.0 1.9 0.7 11.5 8.5 3.6 10.3
0.2
0.0 0.1 6.2 6.4
1.4 0.0 1.8 0.5 14.0
0.0 0.6 7.1 31.1 5.4
0.3 0.1 0.4 1.8 0.3 10.7 19.3 22.7 24.2 23.7 31.8
96.9 97.8 87.5 93.3 95.9 92.2 56.6 47.7 46.9 36.1 30.2 46.5
0.7 0.6 0.2 0.6 0.8 0.2 1.1 1.9 12.0 7.0 5.9 0.2

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Reichstag election results 1874-1912 :

Reichstag election results 1874-1912 :

Reichstag election results 1874-1912 :

Reichstag election results 1874-1912 :
Aut 10
R 1
N 2
S 1

Reichstag election results 1874-1912 :
Aut 8
R 1
S 2
FVg 1

Reichstag election results 1874-1912 :
Aut 10
R 2
S 1
FVg 1

Reichstag election results 1874-1912 :
Aut 9
R 1
N 1
FVg 1
Vp 1
U 1

Reichstag election results 1874-1912 :
Aut 7
Z 5
S 2

Reichstag election results 1874-1912 :
Aut 9
S 5

World War II :
Year Population Cause of change
1866 1,596,198 -
1875 1,531,804 After incorporation into the German Empire, 100,000 to 130,000 people left for France and French Algeria
1910 1,874,014 0.58% population growth per year during 1875-1910
1921 1,709,749 Death of young men in the German army,
Deportation of German newcomers to Germany by the French authorities
1936 1,915,627 0.76% population growth per year during 1921-1936
1946 1,767,131 Death of young men in the French army in 1939-45,
Death of young men in the German army in 1942-45,
Death of civilians and many people still refugees in the rest of France
1999 2,756,931 0.84% population growth per year during 1946-1999
2008 2,877,000 0.48% population growth per year during 1999-2008

DE States of the German Empire (1871 �1918)

KingdomsPrussia * Bavaria * Saxony * Württemberg
Grand DuchiesBaden * Hesse * Mecklenburg-Schwerin * Mecklenburg-Strelitz * Oldenburg * Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
DuchiesAnhalt * Brunswick * Saxe-Altenburg * Saxe-Coburg and Gotha * Saxe-Lauenburg (until 1876) * Saxe-Meiningen
PrincipalitiesSchaumburg-Lippe * Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt * Schwarzburg-Sondershausen * Lippe * Reuss Elder Line * Reuss Junior Line * Waldeck-Pyrmont
City-statesBremen * Hamburg * Lübeck
Other territoriesAlsace-Lorraine * Colonial possessions

German people

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groupings
Federal Germans * Imperial Germans * Volksdeutsche
Diaspora

German people

Historical
groupings
Federal Germans * Imperial Germans * Volksdeutsche
Diaspora
Historical
groupings
Federal Germans * Imperial Germans * Volksdeutsche
Diaspora
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Central and
Eastern
Romania(Transylvanian Saxons * Landler * Danube * Banat * Satu Mare Swabians * Dobruja * Zipser * Regat * Bessarabia * Bukovina)
Miscellanea
Africa: Namibia (Afrikaners) * South Africa (Afrikaners) * Asia: Israel * Kazakhstan * Korea * Kyrgyzstan * Siberia * United Arab Emirates Oceania: Australia



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