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| | Alsace (Traditional province, France) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) |
 | | The division in Upper- and Lower-Alsace, initially known as the counties of Sundgau and Nordgau, respectively, was probably based on the Roman dioceses of Basle and Strasbourg. |
 | | In 843, the treaty of Verdun divided the Carolingian Empire among the three sons of Louis le Pieux (778-840), Charlemagne's son and successor. |
 | | In 1648, by the treaty of Munster, the Emperor ceded both landgraviates of Lower- and Upper Alsace to France, as well as the ten Imperial cities (Haguenau, Landau [later ceded to Bavarian Palatinate in 1815], Wissembourg, Rosheim, Obernai, Sélestat, Kaysersberg, Turckheim, Colmar and Munster) which had constituted the rich Decapole in 1354. |
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