Location of Strasbourg in modern France.
Location of Strasbourg within Alsace.
Strassburg ([ˈʃtʁaːsbʊɐ̯k]) is the German name for the French city of Strasbourg ([stʁaz.buʁ]). Strasbourg is the capital and principal city of the Alsace region in eastern France and is the official seat of the European Parliament. Strasbourg is also the seat of the Council of Europe (with its European Court of Human Rights, its European Directorate for the Quality of Medicines and its European Audiovisual Observatory), the Central Commission for Navigation on the Rhine and the International Institute of Human Rights.
Located close to the border with Germany, it is the capital of the Bas-Rhin département.
Strassburg in 1632[]
Prior to the Ring of Fire, Strassburg had been an an imperial city within the Holy Roman Empire. It became an imperial city of the United States of Europe in 1634, after Nils Brahe swept west to take what became the USE's Province of the Upper Rhine.
Strassburg was not contiguous with the rest of the USE, but was an exclave within territory controlled by Bernard of Saxe-Weimar.