Alsace-Lorraine

Alsace-Lorraine (French: Alsace-Lorraine; German: Elsass-Lothringen) was the territory originally of the German empire, ceded to Louis XIV by the peace of Westphalia in 1648, but returned by France to the newly-unified Germany under the 1871 Treaty of Frankfurt (which ended the Franco-Prussian War) and restored to France after World War I by the 1919 Treaty of Versailles. It was annexed by the German Third Reich in 1940, and again reverted to French control in 1945.

Geographical and historical data

• Area 14,496 km² (5,597 sq. miles).
• Population:

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Causes of abrupt changes

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18661,596,000-

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18751,531,804Exile of 100,000 to 130,000 people to France and French Algeria after the German annexation

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19101,874,0140.58% population growth per year during 1875-1910

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19211,709,749Death of young men in the German army,departure and deportation of German newcomers to Germany

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19361,915,6270.76% population growth per year during 1921-1936

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19461,767,131Death of young men in the French army, death of young men forced to enroll in the German army after 1940,death of civilians and many people still refugees in the rest of France

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19992,757,5920.84% population growth per year during 1946-1999

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