The Nordgau (from the Germanic for "northern region") can refer to two distinct areas:
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Nordgau (Alsace) The Alsatian Nordgau was a medieval Gau in an area roughly comparable to the present-day French Bas-Rhin department.
History
In the Middle Ages, what was then Alsace was divided into two districts, called Nordgau (“Nordgowe”, Unterelsass) an ...
, the Alsatian Nordgau, the medieval County of Nordgau, the northern part of Alsace
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Margraviate of the Nordgau
The Margraviate of the Nordgau (german: Markgrafschaft Nordgau) or Bavarian Nordgau () was a medieval administrative unit ('' Gau'') on the frontier of the German Duchy of Bavaria. It comprised the region north of the Danube and Regensburg (Rat ...
, the Bavarian Nordgau in the area of the Upper Palatinate
See also
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Bavarian B V
The Bavarian B V (''Bayerische B V'') steam engines were early German locomotives of the Royal Bavarian State Railways (''Königlich Bayerische Staats-Eisenbahnen'').
They were the first locomotives produced in Bavaria in large numbers — 101 i ...
, a steam locomotive, one surviving example being the ''Nordgau''
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