In response, Army Group Upper Rhine ( Heeresgruppe Oberrhein ) group was formed to engage the advancing U. S. 7th Army ( under command of General Alexander Patch ) and French 1st Army ( led by General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny ) in the Alsace region along the west bank of the Rhine.

Archduke of Austria, Duke of Burgundy, Brabant, Styria, Carinthia, Carniola, Luxemburg, Württemberg, the Upper and Lower Silesia, Prince of Swabia, Margrave of the Holy Roman Empire, Burgau, Moravia, the Upper and Lower Lusatia, Princely Count of Habsburg, Tyrol, Ferrette, Kyburg, Gorizia, Landgrave of Alsace, Lord of the Wendish March, Pordenone and Salins, etc.

In 1469, following the Treaty of St. Omer, Upper Alsace was sold by Archduke Sigismund of Austria to Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy.

The latter was able to use this tax and a dynastic marriage to his advantage to gain back full control of Upper Alsace ( apart from the free towns, but including Belfort ) in 1477 when it became part of the demesne of the Habsburg family, who were also rulers of the empire.

His efforts were countered by the Roman Catholic Habsburgs who tried to eradicate heresy in Upper Alsace.

Beset by enemies and to gain a free hand in Hungary, the Habsburgs sold their Sundgau territory ( mostly in Upper Alsace ) to France in 1646, which had occupied it, for the sum of 1. 2 million Thalers.

He was born to Count Hugh and Heilwig and was a native of Eguisheim, Upper Alsace ( present day France ).

Beset by enemies and to gain a free hand in Hungary, the Habsburgs sold their Sundgau territory ( mostly in Upper Alsace ) to France in 1646, which had occupied it, for the sum of 1. 2 million Thalers.

Countries and states along the Upper Rhine are Switzerland, France ( Alsace ) and the German states of Baden-Württemberg, Rhineland-Palatinate and Hesse.

The Treaty of Versailles allows France to use the Upper Rhine for hydroelectricity in the Grand Canal d ' Alsace.

Spener was born in Ribeauvillé in Upper Alsace ( now part of France, at the time part of the Holy Roman Empire ).

Lotharingia divided, around 1000Blue: Alsace 925 ceded to SuebiaOrange: Upper Lorraine after 928Green: Lower Lorraine after 977

The occupied Lesser Germania was divided into two provinces: Germania Inferior ( Lower Germania ) ( approximately corresponding to the southern part of the present-day Low Countries ) and Germania Superior ( Upper Germania ) ( approximately corresponding to present-day Switzerland and Alsace ).

In the west, on the other side of the Upper Rhine Graben you can see the entire Vosges Mountains from the Ballon d ' Alsace up to Mont Donon and Mont Sainte-Odile.

An industrial town nicknamed " the French Manchester ", Mulhouse is also the main seat of the Upper Alsace University, where the secretariat of the European Physical Society can be found.

Campus " La Fonderie " of the Upper Alsace University

Standard German is used in writing, and orally in formal contexts, throughout the Alemannic-speaking regions ( with the exception of Alsace and Switzerland ), and Alemannic varieties are generally considered German dialects ( more precisely, a dialect group within Upper German ) rather than separate languages.

In addition to Picardy, she also polled over 20 % in ten other regions: Corsica ( 24. 39 %, 39, 209 votes ), Champagne-Ardenne ( 23. 91 %, 172, 632 votes ), Provence-Alpes-Côte d ' Azur ( 23. 87 %, 650, 336 votes ), Lorraine ( 23. 66 %, 308, 392 votes ), Languedoc-Roussillon ( 23. 45 %, 363, 880 votes ), Nord-Pas-de-Calais ( 23. 29 %, 517, 115 votes ), Alsace ( 22. 12 %, 219, 252 votes ), Franche-Comté ( 21. 29 %, 141, 972 votes ), Burgundy ( 20. 36 %, 191, 148 votes ), Upper Normandy ( 20. 15 %, 207, 520 votes ).

In the Middle Ages, the term Swabia indicated a larger area, covering all the lands associated with the Frankish stem duchy of Alamannia stretching from the Vosges Mountains in the west to the broad Lech river in the east: This also included the region of Alsace and the later Margraviate of Baden on both sides of the Upper Rhine Valley, as well as modern German-speaking Switzerland, the Austrian state of Vorarlberg and the Principality of Liechtenstein in the south.

Gerard IV, Duke of Alsace ( – April 14, 1070 ) was the count of Metz and Chatenois from 1047 to 1048, when his brother Duke Adalbert resigned them to him upon his becoming the Duke of Upper Lorraine.

What is more securely demonstrated is that in 1048 Emperor Henry III gave the Duchy of Upper Lorraine first to Adalbert of Metz and then to his brother Gerard whose successors ( collectively known as the House of Alsace or the House of Châtenois ) retained the duchy until the death of Charles the Bold in 1431.

He was born at Schaffhausen, but from 1448 passed his childhood and youth at Kaisersberg in Upper Alsace.

The duchy encompassed the area surrounding Lake Constance, the Black Forest, and the left and right banks of the Rhine, including Alsace and parts of the Swiss plateau, bordering on Upper Burgundy.

Speakers from the different states of Austria can easily be distinguished from each other by their particular accents ( probably more so than Bavarians ), those of Carinthia, Styria, Vienna, Upper Austria, and the Tyrol being very characteristic.

* To the south east: Lehen ( small hamlet ), Mitterhörlbach ( hamlet ), Upper Hörlbach ( village ), Lower Hörlbach ( hamlet )

As Sargon extended his conquest from the " Lower Sea " ( Persian Gulf ), to the " Upper Sea " ( Mediterranean ), it was felt that he ruled " the totality of the lands under heaven ", or " from sunrise to sunset ", as contemporary texts put it.

Assyria or Athura ( Aramaic for Assyria ) was a Semitic Akkadian kingdom, extant as a nation state from the late 25th or early – 24th century BC to 608 BC centred on the Upper Tigris river, in northern Mesopotamia ( present day northern Iraq ), that came to rule regional empires a number of times through history.

He ordained further that some should be called " Abbreviators of the Upper Bar " ( Abbreviatores de Parco Majori ; the name derived from a space in the chancery, surrounded by a grating, in which the officials sat, which is called higher or lower ( major or minor ) according to the proximity of the seats to that of the vice-chancellor ), the others of the Lower Bar ( Abbreviatores de Parco Minori ); that the former should sit upon a slightly raised portion of the chamber, separated from the rest of the hall or chamber by lattice work, assist the Cardinal Vice-Chancellor, subscribe the letters and have the principal part in examining, revising, and expediting the apostolic letters to be issued with the leaden seal ; that the latter, however, should sit among the apostolic writers upon benches in the lower part of the chamber, and their duty was to carry the signed schedules or supplications to the prelates of the upper bar.

Berlin's best preserved medieval Church of St. Mary's is the 1 < sup > st </ sup > preaching venue – Memorial Church being the 2 < sup > nd </ sup > – of the Bishop of the Evangelical Church of Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia ( EKBO ), a Protestant regional church body.

The country owes its former name of Upper Volta to three rivers which cross it: the Black Volta ( or Mouhoun ), the White Volta ( Nakambé ) and the Red Volta ( Nazinon ).

His mother, Paula ( born Paula Voit ), had German as a mother tongue, but was ethnically of " mixed Hungarian " origin: Her maiden name Voit is German, probably of Saxon origin from Upper Hungary ( Since 1920 in Czechoslovakia, since 1993 in Slovakia ), though she spoke Hungarian fluently.

The old Bishopric of Bamberg was composed of an unbroken territory extending from Schlüsselfeld in a northeasterly direction to the Franconian Forest, and possessed in addition estates in the Duchies of Carinthia and Salzburg, in the Nordgau ( the present Upper Palatinate ), in Thuringia, and on the Danube.

Image: DiscoscaphitesirisCretaceous. jpg | The ammonite Discoscaphites iris, Owl Creek Formation ( Upper Cretaceous ), Ripley, Mississippi.

The Canadian Great Lakes region has similarities to that of the Upper Midwest & Great Lakes region and / or Yooper dialect ( in particular Michigan which has extensive cultural and economic ties with Ontario ), while the phonological system of western Canadian English is virtually identical to that of the Pacific Northwest of the United States, and the phonetics are similar.

In 1784, the two provinces were divided ; Nova Scotia was split into Nova Scotia, Cape Breton Island ( rejoined to Nova Scotia in 1820 ), Prince Edward Island, and New Brunswick, while Quebec was split into Lower Canada ( southern Quebec ) and Upper Canada ( southern through lower northern Ontario ).

Initially, on 1 July 1867, there were four provinces in confederation as " One dominion under the name of Canada ": Canada West ( former Upper Canada, now Ontario ), Canada East ( former Lower Canada, now Quebec ), Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick.

The most that can be said about built structures under Diocletian's reign is that he rebuilt and strengthened forts at the Upper Rhine frontier ( where he followed the works made under Probus's reign, both along the Lake Constance-Basel as well as along the Rhine – Iller – Danube line ), in Egypt, and on the frontier with Persia.

Upper levels of degree are anyway shown in the title, as those who obtain a master's degree can be referred to as " dottore / dottoressa magistrale " ( masterly doctor ) while those who achieve the relatively new program of " dottorato di ricerca " ( research doctorate, equivalent of a Ph. D .), carry the title of " dottore / dottoressa di ricerca " ( research doctor ), which can be abbreviated as " Dott.

The first languages for which standardisation was promoted included Italian (" questione della lingua ": Modern Tuscan / Florentine vs. Old Tuscan / Florentine vs. Venetian > Modern Florentine + archaic Tuscan + Upper Italian ), French ( the standard is based on Parisian ), English ( the standard is based on the London dialect ) and ( High ) German ( based on the dialects of the chancellery of Meissen in Saxony, Middle German and the chancellery of Prague in Bohemia (" Common German ")).

The Paleolithic is subdivided into the Lower Paleolithic ( Early Stone Age, ending around 350, 000 – 300, 000 years ago ), the Middle Paleolithic ( Middle Stone Age, until 50, 000 – 30, 000 years ago ), and the Upper Paleolithic.

The region is nowadays mainly represented by the administrative districts of Lower Franconia ( Unterfranken, capital city Würzburg ), Middle Franconia ( Mittelfranken, capital city Ansbach ), and Upper Franconia ( Oberfranken, capital city Bayreuth ) in Bavaria.