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Alsatian ( Alsatian and ( literally Alsatian-German ); ; or Elsässerdeutsch ) is a Low Alemannic German dialect spoken in most of Alsace, a region in eastern France which has passed between French and German control many times.
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** The Vorlande, a group of territories in Breisgau and elsewhere in southwestern Germany lost in 1801 ( although the Alsatian territories ( Sundgau ) which had formed a part of it had been lost as early as 1648 );
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The narrator is an Alsatian serving with the French Army, and he has the same name ( Berger ) that Malraux himself was later to use in the Resistance ; ;
Alsace ( ; Alsatian: Elsàss ; German: ), pre-1996: Elsaß ; ) is the fifth-smallest of the 27 regions of France in land area ( 8, 280 km² ), and the smallest in metropolitan France.
Saverne (, ; Alsatian: Zawere ; ( German: )) is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Alsace in north-eastern France.
Her mother was Amélie Marie Celeste Miltenberger, an architect's daughter, of French Alsatian descent ; her family had built three interconnected Miltenberger mansions on Rue Royale.
Her paternal grandfather, Pierre Louis-Dreyfus ( 1908-2011 ), was president of the Louis Dreyfus Group ; he was part of a prominent Alsatian Jewish family, and remained in France during World War II, fighting as a cavalry officer and later in the French Resistance.
Colmar (, ; Alsatian: Colmer ; German between 1871 – 1918 and 1940 – 1945: Kolmar ) is the third-largest commune of the Alsace region in north-eastern France.
Mulhouse (, ; Alsatian: Milhüsa or Milhüse, ; ; i. e. mill hamlet ) is a city and commune in eastern France, close to the Swiss and German borders.
He was a young and brilliant officer, of Alsatian origin, hard-working, well-informed, with a clear intellect, a ready speech, and who appeared to share all the prejudices of his surroundings ; he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant-colonel on April 6, 1896, and was the youngest officer of that grade in the army.
Sélestat (, ; Alsatian: Schlestatt or Schlettstadt, ; ( German: )) is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Alsace in north-eastern France.
Haguenau (, ; Alsatian: Hàwenau, ; ) is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department, of which it is a sub-prefecture.
Strasbourg was and is the capital of the French border province of Alsace, which had been part of Germany until the seventeenth century ; most residents spoke both French and Alsatian, a dialect of German.
Wilkinson, then a lieutenant commander on Royal Navy patrol duty, implemented the precursor of " dazzle " on SS Industry ; HMS Alsatian became the first Royal Navy to be dazzle painted in August 1917.
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Today, Alemannic is a linguistic term, referring to Alemannic German, encompassing the dialects of the southern two thirds of Baden-Württemberg ( German State ), in western Bavaria ( German State ), in Vorarlberg ( Austrian State ), Swiss German in Switzerland and the Alsatian language of the Alsace ( France ).
* 1887 – A week after being arrested by the Prussian Secret Police, Alsatian police inspector Guillaume Schnaebelé is released on order of German Emperor William I, defusing a possible war.
The historical language of Alsace is Alsatian, similar to German dialects spoken across the Rhine, but today practically all Alsatians speak French, the official language of France.
Thus, it is not surprising that people left Alsace, not only for Paris – where the Alsatian community grew in numbers, with famous members such as Baron Haussmann – but also for more distant places like Russia and the Austrian Empire, to take advantage of the new opportunities offered there: Austria had conquered lands in Eastern Europe from the Ottoman Empire and offered generous terms to colonists as a way of consolidating its hold on the new territories.
In more recent years, Alsatian is again being promoted by local, national and European authorities as an element of the region's identity.
Alsatian is closely related to other nearby Alemannic dialects, such as Swiss German, Swabian, and Markgräflerisch as well as Kaiserstühlerisch.
Regional identification is most pronounced today in cultures linked to regional languages and non-French-speaking traditions-French language itself being only a dialect of Langue d ' oïl, the mother language of many of the languages to-be-mentioned, which became a national vehicular language, like ( in alphabetical order ): Alsatian, Arpitan, Basque, Brezhoneg ( Breton ), Burgundian, Corsu ( Corsican ), Català ( Catalan ), Francique, Gallo, Lorrain, Norman, Occitan, Picard, Poitevin, Saintongeais, etc., and some of these regions have promoted movements calling for some degree of regional autonomy, and, occasionally, national independence ( see, for example, Breton nationalism, Corsica and Occitania ).
It is the location of the first Ohio newspaper, The Ohio Patriot, founded by an Alsatian immigrant, William D. Lepper.
This is partly from difference in the soil with the clay Alsatian soil being more dominately calcareous than the slate composition of Rheingau.
In contrast to German wine laws, Alsatian rieslings can be chaptalized, a process in which the alcoholic content is increased through the addition of sugar to the must.
The town is situated along the Alsatian Wine Route and considers itself to be the " Capital of Alsatian Wine " ( capitale des vins d ' Alsace ).
Laurent Schwartz comes from a Jewish family of Alsatian origin, with a strong scientific background: his father is a well-known surgeon, his uncle Robert Debré ( who contributed to the creation of UNICEF ) is a famous pediatrician, and his great-uncle-in-law, Jacques Hadamard, was a famous mathematician.
Alsatian and Alemannic
That his home was in Strassburg is supported by the fact that the earliest manuscripts of Tristan, dating from the first half of the 13th century, show features of Alemannic and specifically Alsatian dialect.
Alsatian and German
The first language of most of Alfred's elder brothers and sisters was German or one of the Alsatian dialects.
In Castroville's first century, a visitor would be more likely to hear Alsatian — a soft, French-flecked dialect of German — than English spoken in the town's homes, stores and taverns.
* German Shepherd Dog, also known as an Alsatian in the United Kingdom, the Commonwealth of Nations, and Republic of Ireland
* Au service de l ' Allemagne ( 1905 ), the experiences of an Alsatian conscript in a German regiment
Natzweiler-Struthof was a German concentration camp located in the Vosges Mountains close to the Alsatian village of Natzwiller ( German Natzweiler ) in France, and the town of Schirmeck, about 50 km south west from the city of Strasbourg.
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