Alsace
‘a region and former province of eastern France between the Rhine River and the Vosges Mountains’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
Med.Lat. Alsatia < O.H.G. Ali-sazzo ‘inhabitant of the other (bank of the Rhine)’ < Proto-G. alja ‘other’ < al- + O.H.G. -sazzo ‘inhabitant’ < al < Tamil al