Moselle (France : 1919- )

found: Geonet, Sept. 09, 2014(Département de la Moselle; short: Moselle; France; Lorraine; ADM2 49° 00' 00" N, 006° 30' 00" E)

found: Wikipedia, Sept. 5, 2014(Moselle: department in the east of France named after the river Moselle. It is one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution on March 4, 1790. After the French defeat in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871, almost all of the Moselle department, along with Alsace and portions of the Meurthe and Vosges departments, was returned to the German Empire by the Treaty of Frankfurt. In 1919, with the French victory in the First World War, Alsace-Lorraine was returned to France by Germany at the Treaty of Versailles. The German Region of Lorraine was reconstituted as the new department of Moselle. Thus, the Moselle department was reborn albeit smaller than before. During World War II Moselle was again stripped from France and became part of the Gau-Westmark according to the armistice of June 22, 1940. Moselle was liberated by the American army in 1944 and returned to France, within the same frontiers that it had in 1919. Moselle is part of the current region of Lorraine and is surrounded by the French departments of Meurthe-et-Moselle and Bas-Rhin, as well as Germany (states of Saarland and Rhineland-Palatinate) and Luxembourg in the north.)