The earth and its inhabitants .. . earthitsinhabita386recl Year: 1883 182 GERMANY. ments about 20 miles in extent, which Villers, early in the eighteenth century, constructed along the right hank of the Luuter. The hilly region bounding the plain of Northern Alsace has likewise become famous in the military history of Western Europe. Zaheni (Saverne, 5,771 inhabitants), the Roman Très TabcrnÅ, defends the principal pass of the Yoso-es. Near it, during the Peasants' War, 16,000 of these unfortunate beings were massacred by the troops of Anton of Lorraine after their lives had been promised th
The earth and its inhabitants .. . earthitsinhabita386recl Year: 1883 182 GERMANY. ments about 20 miles in extent, which Villers, early in the eighteenth century, constructed along the right hank of the Luuter. The hilly region bounding the plain of Northern Alsace has likewise become famous in the military history of Western Europe. Zaheni (Saverne, 5,771 inhabitants), the Roman Très TabcrnÅ, defends the principal pass of the Yoso-es. Near it, during the Peasants' War, 16,000 of these unfortunate beings were massacred by the troops of Anton of Lorraine after their lives had been promised them. Pfahhurg (2,425 inhabitants), farther west, on the high-road to Paris, has been dismantled. It only succumbed to hunger in 1870. The neiohbourino- fort of Lidzelstetn (Petite-Pierre) was not even defended. Bitsch (1,987 inhabitants). Fig. 106.âMetz. Scale 1 : 200,000. 3° io R,A P.' â¢^ Sà AiÃr^ ^-'^ I \ UMU ( .Auiain-ilL'i s\ \.->h V( i]);)^ ^Ã'~~'i H><JlH '^^ -- ''j/yiitio« '^1. lit jk^ix '^^loiiJ / ' f PKncr/iViifiiiiJj /â ( fM ( 11 < t 1 _v JMtii Jni V ^\ii u\ ^^ ^ -^-''' .. ' ' ( . .. ,A .. :.^ ,// , . ^f A '' ^ f , 1 6° G.| 6°ioJ IMUo. in the north, is really impregnable, its casemates being hewn out of the solid rock. It only surrendered after the treaty of peace had been signed. The population of the whole of this district is very warlike. No other town counts so many generals amongst its children as Pfalzburg. Saargemund (Sarreguemines, 8,466 inhabitants) is the only important town in the valley of the Saar (Sarre), but, like Forbach (4,729 inhabitants), St. Avoid (2,715 inhabitants), and other places in the vicinity, it has been surpassed by the Prussian town of Saarbriicken, which enjoys the advantage of lying in the centre of a most productive coal basin. The towns of Dieuze (2,659 inhabitants), Moyemic, Vic (2,114 inhabitants), and C/mteau-Salins (2,060 inhabitants), on the Seille or its affluent, the Little Se
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