Sundgau
Sign in to save{| class="wikitable" align="right" |- ! colspan="2" style="background:#6cf;"| Sundgau |- | Land Area || 663 km2 |- | Population || 61 841 inhabitants (1999) |- | Capital || Altkirch |- | Cantons || 4 |- | Communes || 112 |} Sundgau ( or ; ) is a geographical territory in the southern Alsace region (Haut Rhin and Belfort), on the eastern edge of France. The name is derived from Alemannic German Sunt-gowe ("South shire"), denoting an Alemannic county in the Old High German period. The principal city and historical capital is Altkirch.
Key facts
- Country.conventional_long_name
- Landgraviate of Sundgau
- Country.common_name
- Sundgau
- Country.era
- Middle Ages
- Country.status
- Vassal
- Country.empire
- Holy Roman Empire
- Country.government_type
- Principality
- Country.year_start
- 750s
- Country.year_end
- 1648
- Country.event_pre
- Alsace partitioned in twain
- Country.date_pre
- 750s
- Country.event_start
- Landgraviate established
- Country.event1
- To Habsburgs
- Country.date_event1
- 1135
- Country.event_end
- Sold to France
- Country.p1
- Duchy of Alsace
- Country.image_p1
- 20px|Duchy of Alsace
- Country.s1
- Early modern France
- Country.flag_s1
- Royal Standard of the King of France.svg
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Article
19 sectionsContents
- Geography
- Prehistory
- History
- Francia
- Holy Roman Empire
- France and Germany
- Organisation
- Population
- Economy
- Transport
- Road network
- Railway network
- Canal network
- Tourism
- Heritage
- Notable Sundgauviens
- References
- Bibliography
- External links
{| class="wikitable" align="right" |- ! colspan="2" style="background:#6cf;"| Sundgau |- | Land Area || 663 km2 |- | Population || 61 841 inhabitants (1999) |- | Capital || Altkirch |- | Cantons || 4 |- | Communes || 112 |} Sundgau ( or ; ) is a geographical territory in the southern Alsace region (Haut Rhin and Belfort), on the eastern edge of France. The name is derived from Alemannic German Sunt-gowe ("South shire"), denoting an Alemannic county in the Old High German period. The principal city and historical capital is Altkirch.
The considerably smaller French pays of Sundgau, implemented by the 1999 , roughly corresponds to the arrondissement of Altkirch, comprising four cantons and 112 communes in the south of the larger Sundgau region.