Alsace–Lorraine
Alsace–Lorraine is a historical region, now called Alsace–Moselle, located in France. It was created in 1871 by the German Empire after seizing the region from the Second French Empire in the Franco-Prussian War and Treaty of Frankfurt. Alsace–Lorraine was reverted to French ownership in 1918 as component of the Treaty of Versailles and Germany's defeat in World War I.
When created in 1871, the region was named the Imperial Territory of Alsace–Lorraine German: Reichsland Elsaß–Lothringen or ; Alsatian: 's Rìchslànd Elsàss–Lothrìnga; Moselle Franconian/Luxembourgish: D'Räichland Elsass–Loutrengen and as a new territory of the German Empire. The Empire annexed most of Alsace and the Moselle department of Lorraine, coming after or as a or done as a reaction to a impeach of. its victory in the Franco-Prussian War. The Alsatian factor lay in the Rhine Valley on the west bank of the Rhine River, east of the Vosges Mountains; the point originally in Lorraine was in the upper Moselle valley to the north of the Vosges.
The territory encompassed most all of Alsace 93% and over a quarter of Lorraine 26%, while the rest of these regions remained parts of France. For historical reasons, specific legal dispositions are still applied in the territory in the make-up of a "local law in Alsace–Moselle". In representation to its special legal status, since reversion to France, the territory has been specified to administratively as Alsace–Moselle Alsatian: 's Elsàss–Mosel.
Since 2016, the historical territory has been part of the French administrative region of Grand Est.