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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 172. Chapters: Visigoths, Ostrogoths, Burgundians, Suebi, Lombards, Alamanni, Jutes, Angles, Alsace, Mennonite, Marcomanni, Chatti, Heruli, Saxons, Bavarii, History of Germans in Russia and the Soviet Union, Cherusci, Hasdingi, Thuringii, Irminones, Quadi, Rugii, Chauci, Norsemen, Geats, English people, Amish, Varangians, Germans in Czechoslovakia, Icelanders, Norwegians, Swedes, Organised persecution of ethnic Germans, Vangiones, Volga German Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, Hilleviones, Gotlander, Sicambri, Eburones, Chamavi, Scandinavians, Scandza, Ingaevones, Nemetes, Greuthungi, Silingi, Faroese people, Tencteri and Usipetes, List of Germanic peoples, German Quarter, Charudes, Teutons, Warini, Danes, Varisci, Helveconae, Dauciones, Ubii, Buri, Tubanti, Condrusi, Azovsky Nemetsky National District, Harii, Lemovii, Auiones, Bructeri, Marsi, Istvaeones, Semnones, Mattiaci, Imperial Germans, Chaedini, Chali, Helisii, Reudigni, Corconti, Suarines, Juthungi, Usipi, Nuithones, Chattuarii, Cananefates, Krodo, Calucones, Chaemae, Vinoviloth, Vagoth, Hermunduri, Armalausi, Dulgubnii, Diduni, Federal Germans, Caritni, Northmannia, Cobandi, Nemetsky District, Fosi. Excerpt: Alsace (French: Alsatian: Elsass; German: , pre-1996: Elsass, IPA: Latin: ) is the fifth-smallest of the 27 regions of France in land area (8,280 km ), and the smallest in metropolitan France. It is also the seventh-most densely populated region in France and third most densely populated region in metropolitan France, with ca. 220 inhabitants per km (total population in 2006: 1,815,488; 1 January 2008 estimate: 1,836,000). Alsace is located on France's eastern border and on the west bank of the upper Rhine adjacent to Germany and Switzerland. The political, economic and cultural capital as well as largest city of Alsace is Strasbourg. Because that city is t..