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	Vosges mountains - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Vosges mountains are range of mountains in central-western Europe, stretching along the west side of the Rhine valley in a NNE direction, from Basel (Switzerland) to Mainz (Germany).
		The départements of Vosges and Haute Saône are divided from Alsace and the territory of Belfort by the Ballon d'Alsace or St Maurice (4100 ft.).
		The Lower Vosges are a sandstone plateau ranging from 1000 to 1850 ft. high and are crossed by the railway from Hagenau to Sarreguemines, defended by the fort of Bitche.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vosges_mountains (534 words)

	VOSS, J. H. - LoveToKnow Article on VOSS, J. H. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		VOSGES, a frontier department of eastern France, formed in 1790 chiefly of territory previously belonging to Lorraine, together with portions of Franche-Comt and Champagne, and bounded N. by the department of Meurthe-et-Moselle, E. by Alsace, SE.
		The Vosges in their southern portion are mainly of granite, with some porphyritic masses, and of a kind of red sandstone (occasionally 1640 ft. in thickness) which on the western versant bears the name of grhs Vosgien.
		The Lower Vosges are a sandstone plateau ranging from 1000 to 1850 ft. high, and are crossed by the railway from IIagenau to Sarreguemines, defended by the fort of Bitche.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /V/VO/VOSS_J_H_.htm (1543 words)

	Breeds of Livestock - Vosges Cattle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This breed is a native of the Vosges Mountains, principally in Alsace.
		The Vosges is a fl and white, colorsided breed.
		Vosges is a good natured, robust, undemanding milk-base dual purpose mountain cattle, well-adapted to difficult regions and to variation in temperature, able to walk long distances and to make good use of roughage.
	www.ansi.okstate.edu /breeds/cattle/vosges (318 words)

	VOSGES - LoveToKnow Article on VOSGES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The departments of Vosges and Haute Sane are divided from Alsace and the territory of Bolfort by the Ballon dAlsace or St Maurice (4100 ft.).
		The railway from Paris to Strassburg and the Rhine and Marne Canal ttaverse the Col de Saverne.
		It was used for defence in the middle ages, and archaeologists are divided as to whether it was built for this purpose by the Rornans, or before their arrival.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /V/VO/VOSGES.htm (992 words)

	Vosges (mountains) - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Vosges (mountains) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Mountain range in eastern France near the Franco-German frontier between the départements of Haut-Rhin and Vosges, 250 km/155 mi in length and rising to its highest point at the Ballon de Guebwiller (1,422 m/4,667 ft).
		The Vosges is separated from the Jura Mountains to the south by the Belfort Gap.
		The Vosges is densely wooded; rivers flow down its slopes to the Rhine and to the central plateau of France.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Vosges+(mountains) (168 words)

	Vosges mountains (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Vosges in theirsouthern portion are mainly of granite, with some porphyritic masses and of a kind of red sandstone (occasionally1640 ft. in thickness) which on the western versant bears the French name of grès Vosgien.
		The départements of Vosges and Haute Saône are divided from Alsace and the territory of Belfort bythe Ballon d'Alsace or St Maurice (4100 ft.).
		The Lower Vosges are a sandstone plateau ranging from 1000 to 1850 ft. highand are crossed by the railway from Hagenau to Sarreguemines, defended by the fort of Bitche.
	www.therfcc.org /vosges-mountains-4996.html (446 words)

	Vosges mountains (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Vosges in southern portion are mainly of granite with some porphyritic masses and of a kind of sandstone (occasionally 1640 ft. in thickness) which the western versant bears the French name grès Vosgien.
		The départements of Vosges and Haute Saône are divided from Alsace and the territory of Belfort by the Ballon d'Alsace or St (4100 ft.).
		The Lower Vosges are a plateau ranging from 1000 to 1850 ft. and are crossed by the railway from to Sarreguemines defended by the fort of
	www.freeglossary.com /Vosges_mountains (825 words)

	Vosges Battleground: 44th Infantry
		Known as the Hardt Mountains, in Germany, this range consists of two distinct sections divided by the Saverne Gap, the high Vosges to the south and low Vosges in the north.
		The Vosges was the equalizer for the Germans of 1944.
		Mountain warfare is massively difficult because both the topology and climate conspire against the attacking soldiers.
	www.efour4ever.com /44thdivision/battleground.htm (934 words)

	vosges mountains 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Vosges Mountains are a chain of mountains located in the northeastern corner of France, in the historical region of Alsace, just west of the Rhine River which forms the border between France and Germany in this region.
		The mountain chain consists of two major regions of terrain, the High Vosges in the south and the Low Vosges in the north near the German border.
		The mountains form part of the Central European Uplands which stretch east to west across Europe north of the Alps and also include diverse upland regions such as the Black Forest, the Ardennes and the Bayerischer Wald or Bavarian Forest.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /vosges_mountains_1.html (183 words)

	Encyclopedia: Vosges mountains
		The most general definition of mountain range is a group of mountains bordered by lowlands.
		Remiremont is a town in eastern France, in the department of Vosges.
		Saar loop at Mettlach The Saar (French: Sarre) is a river, that rises in the Vosges mountains in Alsace with two headstreams (Red and White Saar) at the Donon, running through Lorraine and the Saarland, which was named after it.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Vosges-mountains (1403 words)

	Encyclopedia: Alsace
		It is almost four times longer than it is wide, corresponding to a plain between the Rhine in the east and the Vosges mountains in the west.
		There is little precipitation because the Vosges protect it from the west.
		Because the Vosges are surmountable only by the Col de Saverne, it has been suggested that Alsace needs to open up and get closer to France in terms of its rail links.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Alsace (8254 words)

	Vosges mountains - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		No railway crosses the Vosges between Saverne and Belfort, but there are carriage roads over the passes of Bussang from Remiremont to Thann, the Schlucht (3766 ft) from Gérardmer to Munster, the Bonhomine from St Die to Colmar and the pass from St Die to Ste Marie-aux-Mines.
		It was used for defence in the middle ages and archaeologists are divided as to whether it was built for this purpose by the Romans, or before their arrival.
		Report concerning reconnaissance and construction of the Vosges positions from 8 August to 15 October 1944
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /vosges_mountains.htm (537 words)

	Vosges -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		East of the Paris Basin is the Alsace Plain, bordered by the Vosges on the west, the Saône basin on the southwest, the Jura Mountains on the south, the Rhine River on the east, and Germany on the north.
		The river systems of France are determined by a major divide in the far eastern part of the country, running from the southern end of the Vosges down the eastern and southeastern edge of the Massif Central to the Noire Mountains, the southwestern promontory of the massif.
		Geologically it is the centre of a structural depression that extends between the ancient Armoricain Massif (west), the Massif Central (south), and the Vosges, Ardennes, and Rhineland (east).
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9075753?tocId=9075753 (726 words)

	Walking between the Vosges mountains and Langres (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		As far as I go further from the mountains, I have the feeling to enter a real "deep France" completely derelicted, far from any reasonably big town.
		As long as I remain in the Vosges department, villages are quite lively ; there are towns not too far away, Épinal or even Nancy, to interact with the countryside.
		However, there are also long stretches of the path where no village is in sight, since the itinerary zigzags for many kilometers among the forests in the center of the département.
	www.lavaurs.com /en/sentiers/G_004 (174 words)

	Interfrance: City of Belfort
		From the Vosges to the Jura Mountains, it is an ideal place to hike, horse-ride and bike on 540 km (350 miles) of marked trails, through its green countryside.
		At the foot of the tower, the view extends to the Etang des Forges, the city and the Vosges Mountains.
		The highest summit in the southern part of the Vosges Mountains (altitude 1,247 m) is at the crossroads of the three regions of Lorraine, Franche-Comte and Alsace.
	www.interfrance.com /en/fc/fc_belfort_pi.html (590 words)

	Louis Sipp : Vineyards and wine making (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		These are the fault-line of the Vosges region, running along the foothills of the mountains, and the fault-line of the Rhine between the plain and the hills.
		The western boundary of the winefield itself is defined by the Vosges chain of mountains, and the eastern boundary is the plain of Alsace.
		It is offered protection from the effects of an oceanic climate by several geographical forces : the Vosges mountains, the semi-continental nature of the Alsace plain, and the foehn (a warm dry wind which rises from the Mediterranean and blows down the Northern slopes of the Alps).
	www.sipp.com /GB/vign.html (416 words)

	Vosges mountains - Term Explanation on IndexSuche.Com
		; the Central Vosges (31 miles), between the Bruche and the Col_de_Saverne; the Lower Vosges (30 miles, between the Col_de_Saverne and the source of the Lauter; and the Hardt.
		The ''départements'' of Vosges and Haute_Saône are divided from Alsace and the territory_of_Belfort by the Ballon d'Alsace or St Maurice (4100 ft.).
		The railway from Paris to Strasbourg and the Rhine_and_Marne_Canal traverse the Col de Saverne.
	www.indexsuche.com /Vosges_mountains.html (471 words)

	acidification in the Vosges mountains (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In France, the Vosges mountains are the second least resistant region to acidification.
		In France, the Vosges mountains have the second highest acid atmospheric deposition rate.
		Limings should be used in the areas of the Vosges mountains which show forest decline or soil acidification.
	www.nancy.inra.fr /acidification/menuUK.html (354 words)

	Vosges (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Place des Vosges in Paris was so renamed in 1799 when the département became the first to pay the Revolutionary taxes.
		The Saône river rises at Vioménil in the Vosges.
		"Into the Mountains Dark - A WWII Odyssey from Harvard Crimson to Infantry Blue" by Franklin L. Gurley is a wonderful memoir of an infantry grunt (lowly buck-Pvt) that paints one of the most realistic and unembellished pictures of war I have ever read.
	www.freeglossary.com /Vosges (294 words)

	Interfrance: City of Luxeuil les Bains (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		It is the touristic capital of the southern Vosges mountains and the Saone plain.
		At the foot of the Vosges montains, 9 km north of Luxeuil, Fougerolles owes its reputation to cherry growing (more than 40,000 cherry trees) and the cherry liqueur Kirsch made since the end of the 16th century.
		In the north-east of Haute-Saone, part of the southern Vosges mountains (a triangular area between Fougerolles, Lure and Col de Croix), the landscape has been shaped by ancient glaciers.
	web10361.tabnet.vwh.net /en/fc/hs_luxeuil.html (755 words)

	Annonces-Gîtes
		The Vosges are located in the south of Lorraine, in a privileged position close to the countries bordering the east of France: Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg and Switzerland, and only a few kilometres from Alsace.
		The Vosges Département is both rural and has an industrial history, and it has managed to retain a warm and friendly sense of hospitality.
		Tomme of the Vosges, goat's cheese, fresh and mature Munster cheese, young pigeon, duck, foie gras, duck breast, confit, rillettes, foie gras pâté, Lorraine pie, egg and bacon quiche, terrines, trout, bilberries, mirabelles, jam, mountain and fir honey.
	www.annonces-gites.com /info_e.htm (960 words)

	How to bicycle Alsace
		Accross the Rhine lies Germany's corresponding "Elsass" plain, bounded on the east by the mountain peaks of the Black Forest.
		If you make any of the highly recommended climbs to visit the Vosges mountains, whether by bike or on foot, or both, you will need to be in fairly good shape.
		The Vosges mountains north of the Bruche River (about 12 km further north) are composed of this "Grès", i.e., sandstone, whereas to the south they are "Cristalline", i.e., granitic.
	www.mayq.com /Best_european_trips/Alsace/Alsace.htm (4236 words)

	Interfrance: Photo selection from Alsace Wine Road
		Located in the foothills of the Vosges mountains, they enjoy a warm and sunny micro-climate which has made it possible to grow many types of grape.
		Sheltered by the Vosges mountains, the vineyards of Alsace enjoy a microclimate that is ideal for a majestic white wine.
		The well-known Munster cheese is made in farms in the Vosges mountains.
	www.interfrance.com /photobank/alsace/pb_alsace2.html (391 words)

	Forging the Vosges (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The mountains, the mud, and the mine fields were in front of us once again, but, unlike Italy, there was no Rome glittering on the horizon.
		After one mountain was gained there was nothing ahead but another, always another mountain, higher and more heavily defended than the last.
		We weren't in the Vosges Mountains long before we realized that the Germans were not our only enemy.
	www.kwanah.com /txmilmus/36division/archives/141/14169.htm (1264 words)

	Where is the Vosges montains ?, visit-alsace.com, France
		This Vosges country is a little piece of paradise, a haven of peace in the heartland of Mother Nature.
		Surrounded by mountains, forest, farmhouses in the middle of wide prairies, waterfalls, this is the perfect vacation spot with it cross-country skiing trails, ski lifts, the luge track, numerous marked trails and, last but not least, the Sequoia Park.
		In this quiet valley, the "Welche" is spoken, a dialect close to the Vosges dialect.
	www.visit-alsace.com /where_is_it/ou_c_ang_pays_mont2.html (3536 words)

	100th ID - THE GERMAN VIEW
		Although many American researchers rightly claim that very few good history books have been written about the Vosges Mountains Campaign or about the accomplishments of the men of the US Seventh Army in Europe in general, those seeking information on the German side of the action are even more disappointed.
		For a variety of reasons, including the often chaotic command situations prevalent on the German side of the lines during the last eight months of the war, there are very, very few primary source documents available for chronicling the actions of the German units which opposed the 100th Infantry Division in the ETO.
		Excellent overview of German operations in the High Vosges; helps place the 100th's initial combat into the perspective of the German command responsible for defending the historically-impenetrable Vosges Mountains.
	www.100thww2.org /aid/geraid.html (1571 words)

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