Elsass-Lothringen
Britishnoun
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From this cross-road he could see the railway, where a line of freight-cars, drawn by a puffing locomotive, was passing—cars of all colours, marked on one end "Elsass-Lothringen," on the other "Alsace-Lorraine."
From Lorraine A romance by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)
I can well imagine that in making the appointments to the Rhenish Governing Board in 1816 the same procedure was adopted as at the organization of Elsass-Lothringen in 1871.
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 10 Prince Otto Von Bismarck, Count Helmuth Von Moltke, Ferdinand Lassalle by Francke, Kuno
Alsace-Lorraine, the imperial territory, or Reichsland of Elsass-Lothringen, taken by Germany from France in 1871, and restored to France in 1919.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 1 A to Amide by Various
A swell chance we'd have of landing the Guardian if we'd had the Elsass-Lothringen!
From White Ashes by Kennedy, Sidney R. (Sidney Robinson)
Good-will to England and to the Latin peoples, hostility to the Power which had torn Elsass-Lothringen from France--such was the policy of Gambetta.
From The Development of the European Nations, 1870-1914 (5th ed.) by Rose, John Holland
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