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Definition of Elsass
1. Noun. A region of northeastern France famous for its wines.
Group relationships: France, French Republic
Generic synonyms: French Region
Derivative terms: Alsatian
Lexicographical Neighbors of Elsass
Literary usage of Elsass
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1907)
"The claims of France upon elsass were not so easily settled. The French Government
had repeatedly declared that it made war upon the House of Austria, ..."
2. Alsace-Lorraine: A Study in Conquest: 1913 by David Starr Jordan (1916)
"He should give his pledge not to buy secretly any newspapers, books or periodicals
in French. All this under pain of expulsion from the land." 'elsass- ..."
3. The Historical Geography of Europe by Edward Augustus Freeman (1903)
"Then by the peace with France, nearly the states. whole of elsass, including
Strassburg, ... elsass ..."
4. The Student's Modern Europe: A History of Modern Europe, from the Capture of by Richard Lodge (1893)
"His. plan was to make elsass into a duchy for himself, and having thus established an
... Bernhard's army and with it elsass passed into French hands. ..."
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