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Alsace

[al-sas, -seys, al-sas, -seys, al-zas]

noun

  1. a region and former province of France between the Vosges and the Rhine.



Alsace

/ alzas, ælˈsæs /

noun

  1. Ancient name: AlsatiaGerman name: Elsassa region and former province of NE France, between the Vosges mountains and the Rhine: famous for its wines. Area: 8280 sq km (3196 sq miles)

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Dreyfus, a 36-year-old army captain from the Alsace region of eastern France, was accused in October 1894 of passing secret information on new artillery equipment to a German military attache.

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For the people of Alsace, a French region close to the German border, local pride is a huge part of life.

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Dina Paredes, 57, a housekeeper at the Alsace Hotel, a boutique property in West Adams, said she and her husband are afraid to go outside, even though they have formal immigration status.

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The provinces of Alsace and Lorraine were to be returned to France.

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A Spanish judge issued a European detention order and one of them was held in Scherwiller and the other at the airport of Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg, both in the north-eastern Alsace region, the civil guard reported.

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