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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 3129620, member: 39&quot;]In fact, that war began one year later, in 1870. And why? The dispute was about the Spanish royal succession, but the underlying conflict had already become obvious during the Prussian-Austrian war a few years before ...</p><p><br /></p><p>As for Strasbourg, the place was a free city until the French occupation in 1681. In 1870 it was occupied by the Prussians/Germans, and Alsace Lorraine became, for another 40 years, a German territory with no parliamentary representation. There had been plans to operate the Strasbourg mint with the German mintmark K, but that never happened. In 1918/19 the city and region became French again and have (expect for the WW2 years) been French since then. But today Strasbourg is the seat of many European institutions.</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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