Colmar (French: Colmar, pronounced [kɔlmaʁ]; Alsatian: Colmer, pronounced [ˈkolməʁ]; German: Colmar, between 1871-1918 and 1940-1945 also Kolmar) is a town and commune in the Haut-Rhin département of Alsace, France, of which it is the préfecture (capital)
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