Bas-Rhin

American  

[bah-ran] / bɑˈrɛ̃ /

noun

1. a department in NE France. 1,848 sq. mi. (4,785 sq. km). Strasbourg.

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Bas-Rhin British  

/ bɑrɛ̃ /

noun

1. a department of NE France in Alsace region. Capital: Strasbourg. Pop: 1 052 698 (2003 est). Area: 4793 sq km (1869 sq miles)

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Bas-Rhin

The Bas-Rhin region's Fire and Rescue Service posted on X urging people to avoid the area to allow emergency services to access the area.

From BBC ● Jan. 11, 2025

You can pick and choose from the cornucopia on display at the Bas-Rhin bakers federation; these industrious boulangers set up a tent on the Place du Marché-aux-Poissons and offer workshops and recipe booklets.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 16, 2021

The Directory of the Bas-Rhin banishes them to Strasbourg or to fifteen leagues from the frontier.

From The French Revolution - Volume 1 by John Durand

We are here on the borders of the lost provinces, the two fair and rich departments of Haut-Rhin and Bas-Rhin, now effaced from the map of France.

From In the Heart of the Vosges And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller" by Matilda Betham-Edwards

Then there was the Café du Bas-Rhin on the Boul' Mich' where Marie la Démocrate drank fifty-five bocks in an evening against Hélène la Sévère who drank fifty-three.

From The Belovéd Vagabond by William John Locke

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