Moselle was formerly a frontier department in the north-east of France, but the greater part of it was taken by Germany after the war of 1870-1871, and became as of old part of Lorraine. The small portion left to France was joined to the department of Meurthe. Pop. of Moselle in 1866, 452,157. See MEURTHE-ET-MOSELLE.
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