
Originally Posted by
Lothringen
As 2 people suggested me I remove the jacobin, kingslayer flag, as neither:
- Frankish Kingdom
- Austrasia
- Lotharingia
- Carolingian Empire
are available,
I don't see why you're looking that far behind in history for the Lotharingian empire, etc... Less than a century ago was still the Reichsland Elsaß-Lothringen which was one of the brightest and most prosperous periods (1871-1918) this state has known. It was then followed by the very shortly lived independent Republic of Alsace-Lorraine.
Reichsland Elsaß-Lothringen, 1871-1918 / Independent Republic of Alsace-Lorraine, 11-21 November 1918

Originally Posted by
Untersberger
I understand the 30 years war and this treaty but I do not understand why Paris insists a German cultural area is French? It is a kind of parallel to the situation with Northern Ireland (Ulster) and London ??

No. People here are not nearly as nasty

Originally Posted by
Untersberger
Most of Elsass is German by culture and French language was forced on the young people especially after WW2 when the Paris Government Banned German from being spoken completely and only French allowed for school and for work. But Elsässer people still consider themselves Germanic and not French. Many still speak German now that the tensions have cooled off since the war.
Much of Lothringen (Lorraine) however is traditionally French by culture and language except for the area around Diedenhofen (Thionville) which was as German culturally as most of Elsass.... Is this accurate and would you agree?
Germanic Lorraine is in a very poor shape... The Alsatians are keeping their identity much better, even if it's in great danger too. It's true that Lorraine as a whole is traditionally more Romanized, but it is actually the Eastern parts of it which are actually the more Germanic (the area of Saarguemines/Saargemuend, Forbach, St Avold, Creutzwald, etc). Diedenhofen lies at the Western end, plus since it has always been an industrial city it has been long degraded by immigration.
The whole area around the Moselle river between Diedenhofen and Metz has been racially ruined for a long time already through the immigration of Poles, Spanish and Italians, which traces back to the beginning of the XXth century. The rural areas along the border are the more preserved.
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