

The region, as part of Lorraine, was part of the Holy Roman Empire, and then was gradually annexed by France in the 17th century, and formalized as one of the provinces of France. The Calvinist manufacturing republic of Mulhouse, known as Stadtrepublik Mülhausen, became a part of Alsace after a vote by its citizens on 4 January 1798. Alsace is frequently mentioned with and as part of Lorraine and the former duchy of Lorraine, since it was a vital part of the duchy, and later because German possession as the imperial province (Alsace-Lorraine, 1871–1918) was contested in the 19th and 20th centuries; France and Germany exchanged control of parts of Lorraine (including Alsace) four times in 75 years. 

With the decline of the Roman Empire, Alsace became the territory of the Germanic Alemanni. The Alemanni were agricultural people, and their Germanic language formed the basis of modern-day dialects spoken along the Upper Rhine (Alsatian, Alemannian, Swabian, Swiss). Clovis and the Franks defeated the Alemanni during the 5th century AD, culminating with the Battle of Tolbiac, and Alsace became part of the Kingdom of Austrasia. Under Clovis' Merovingian successors the inhabitants were Christianized. Alsace remained under Frankish control until the Frankish realm, following the Oaths of Strasbourg of 842, was formally dissolved in 843 at the Treaty of Verdun; the grandsons of Charlemagne divided the realm into three parts. Alsace formed part of the Middle Francia, which was ruled by the youngest grandson Lothar I. Lothar died early in 855 and his realm was divided into three parts. The part known as Lotharingia, or Lorraine, was given to Lothar's son. The rest was shared between Lothar's brothers Charles the Bald (ruler of the West Frankish realm) and Louis the German (ruler of the East Frankish realm). The Kingdom of Lotharingia was short-lived, however, becoming the stem duchy of Lorraine in Eastern Francia after the Treaty of Ribemont in 880. Alsace was united with the other Alemanni east of the Rhine into the stem duchy of Swabia.

Now, provide a numbered list of answers to these questions:

1. In antiquity Lorraine belonged to whom?
2. Who got them in 17th century?
3. What was its status then?
4. What became part of Alsace?
5. By what process?
6. When?
7. Whose part is it often mentioned?
8. Who got them later?
9. When?
10. What was its status then?
11. Did countries fight over it?
12. Which countries?
13. In which centuries?
14. Did it change hands?
15. How many times?
16. For how long?
17. What was the inhabitants profession in Roman Empire period?
18. How many parts Charlemagne divided the place?
19. How many brothers Lothar had?
20. What place Alsace united with then?
1. he Germanic Alemanni
2. France
3. one of the provinces of France
4. the Calvinist manufacturing republic of Mulhouse
5. after a vote
6. on January 4, 1798
7. Alsace
8. Germany
9. 1871–1918
10. an imperial province
11. yes
12. France and Germany
13. in the 19th and 20th centuries
14. yes
15. four tiems
16. 75 years
17. agricultural
18. the grandsons of Charlemagne divided the realm into three parts
19. two
20. Alsace formed part of the Middle Francia