Strasbourg

:For other places named Strasburg or Stra?burg see Strasburg.

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Strasbourg (French: Strasbourg; Alsatian: Strossburi; German: Stra?burg) is the capital and principal city of the Alsace r?gion of northeastern France, with approximately 650,000 inhabitants in the metropolitan area in 1999. Located close to the border with Germany, it is the pr?fecture (capital) of the Bas-Rhin d?partement.

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The city's name means "town (at the crossing) of roads". Stras- is cognate to the English street, while -bourg and the German -burg ("fortress, town") are cognate to the English borough.

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Strasbourg is an important centre of manufacturing and engineering, as well as of road, rail and river communications.

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Strasbourg is the seat of the Council of Europe and the European Court of Human Rights and it hosts the new seat of the European Parliament (with Brussels) after the asbestos scandal in the 1980s.

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Strasbourg related Images and Photos (experimental)

West Front of Strasbourg Cathedral	Pot-Pourri Vase Made in Strasbourg circa 1754-60	Prussian Bombardment of Strasbourg Across Water at Night Firing with Canons	Main Sewer from the Strasbourg Station to the Seine. Official Visit of the Minister of Interior
Surgery on the Battlefield Strasbourg	French Ball Royal Almanac with a Score Sheet of the Menuet de Strasbourg by M.A. Charpentier	Map of North Africa and West Africa Published in Strasbourg in 1522	Rouget De Lisle (1760-1836) Singing the Marseillaise at the Home of Dietrich Mayor of Strasbourg