Facts in brief:
Strategically located on Ill river; was Celtic settlement, passed to Romans; ruined by Attila 5th cen.;
rebuilt by Franks; site of Oath of Strasbourg 842; held by bishops as part of German & then Holy Roman Empire 923-1262; damaged in WW II.
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