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McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
• Nicholas of Strasburg
• Remigius, or Remi of Strasburg
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
• Gottfried von Strasburg
• Strasburg
The Catholic Encyclopedia
• Gottfried von Strasburg
• Hugh of Strasburg
• Nicholas of Strasburg
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The Jewish Encyclopedia
• Mordecai ben Nathan ben Eliakim ben Isaac of Strasburg
• Strasburg

Capital, since 1871, of Alsace-Lorraine, on the Ill, a few miles above its confluence with the Rhine, 89 m. N. of Basel; a place of great strategical importance, and a fortress of the first class; is a city of Roman origin, and contains a magnificent Gothic cathedral (11th century) with a famous astronomical clock, an imperial palace, university, &c.; manufactures embrace beer, leather, cutlery, jewellery, &c.; there is also a busy transit trade; a free town of the German empire in the 13th century; fell into the hands of the French in 1681, and was captured by the Germans, after a seven weeks' siege, on 28th September 1870, after which it became finally German, as it was originally, by the peace of Frankfort, May 1871.