In the administrative divisions of France, the department is one of the three levels of government under the national level, between the administrative regions and the communes. There are a total of 1
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The three Algerian departments in 1848
Alsace–Lorraine, officially the Imperial Territory of Alsace–Lorraine, was a territory of the German Empire which is now part of France. It was established in 1871 by the German Empire after it had oc
The general government of Elsass (1875) by A. Petermann
The Black Stain (1887) by Albert Bettannier
Statue in the Place Maginot in Nancy that personifies the loss of Alsace as the separation of a mother and daughter
The neo-Romanesque Metz railway station, built in 1908. Kaiser Wilhelm II instigated the construction of various buildings in Alsace–Lorraine that were to be representative of German architecture.