page_title: Pays de Bitche
section_title: The Lorraine Pays de Bitche
hierarchical_section_title: Pays de Bitche / History / The Lorraine Pays de Bitche
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Bitche: Zitadelle
context_page_description: The Pays de Bitche is a natural region located in the Moselle department of the Grand Est region of France. It corresponds to the present French part of the former principality of Zweibrücken-Bitsch and to the part of the Northern Vosges that lies within Lorraine.
  The Pays de Bitche has a total of 47 municipalities. 46 of them are gathered into the Bitche canton and the remaining one, Kalhausen, is a part of the Sarreguemines canton.
context_section_description: Its administration was modernised, its jurisdiction re-regulated and there was then initially a definite economic boom that had, however, turned into a long-lasting recession in the 2nd quarter of the 17th century.
caption: Citadel of Bitche
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