proper noun/alˈsaθja/
Alsace (a cultural region, former administrative region and historical province of France; since 2016, part of the administrative region of Grand Est)
Related: alsaciano
Borrowed from Medieval Latin Alsatia, from Old High German ali sazzo (“inhabitant of the other”) (referring to the opposite bank of the Rhine), from Proto-West Germanic *alljas (“other”) + *sittjan (“inhabitant”, literally “sitter”).