Arrondissement of Château-Salins

The Communauté de communes du Saulnois (Community of communes of Saulnois) is a federation of municipalities of the rural Saulnois region, located in the department of Moselle in Eastern France. It consists of 128 communes. Its seat is in Château-Salins. Its area is 974.4 km2, and its population was 28,853 in 2018.

Château-Salins (French: [ʃɑto salɛ̃]; German: Salzburg, from 1941 to 1944 Salzburgen) is a commune in the Moselle department in Grand Est in north-eastern France. Until 2015, Château-Salins was a subprefecture of the Moselle department.

The canton of Le Saulnois is an administrative division of the Moselle department, northeastern France. Its borders were modified at the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015. Its seat is in Château-Salins. It consists of the following communes:

Amelécourt (French pronunciation: [amlekuʁ]; German: Almerichshofen) is a commune in the Moselle department in Grand Est in northeastern France. It is located on the main D674 road, north of the town of Chateau-Salins. Neighbouring villages include Lubécourt, Gerbécourt, Vaxy, and Salonnes.

Lubécourt (French pronunciation: [lybekuʁ]; German: Lubenhofen) is a commune in the Moselle department in Grand Est in north-eastern France.

Salonnes (French pronunciation: [salɔn]; German: Salzdorf) is a commune in the Moselle department in Grand Est in north-eastern France.

Gerbécourt (French pronunciation: [ʒɛʁbekuʁ]; German: Gerbertshofen) is a commune in the Moselle department in Grand Est in north-eastern France.

Morville-lès-Vic (French pronunciation: [mɔʁvil lɛ vik], literally Morville near Vic; German: Morsheim) is a commune in the Moselle department in Grand Est in north-eastern France.

Vic-sur-Seille (French pronunciation: [vik syʁ sɛj], literally Vic on Seille; German: Wich) is a commune in the Moselle department in Grand Est in north-eastern France.

The Prince-Bishopric of Metz was a prince-bishopric of the Holy Roman Empire. It had a different territorial extent from the diocese of Metz, the prince-bishop's ecclesiastical jursidiction. It was one of the Three Bishoprics that were annexed by France in 1552. The bishops of Metz had already ruled over a significant amount of territories within the former Kingdom of Lotharingia, which by the 870 Treaty of Meerssen became a part of East Francia. They had to struggle for their independence from the Dukes of Lorraine, acquired the lands of the Counts of Metz, but had to face the rise of their capital Metz to the status of an Imperial City in 1189. In 1234 the unrest of the Metz citizens forced the bishops to move their residence to Vic-sur-Seille. In 1357 Emperor Charles IV of Luxembourg again confirmed the bishopric's Imperial immediacy. From the accession of Henri of Lorraine-Vaudémont in 1484 however, the diocese was ruled by bishops from the House of Lorraine, who by their close relations with the House of Valois brought Metz unter the influence of the French crown. By the 1552 Treaty of Chambord, an alliance of revolting Protestant Imperial princes led by Elector Maurice of Saxony promised the overlordship over the Three Bishoprics of Metz, Toul and Verdun to King Henry II of France. Metz was occupied by Henry's troops and annexed by the French crown, finally acknowledged by the Empire in the 1648 Peace of Westphalia.

Chambrey (French pronunciation: [ʃɑ̃bʁɛ]; German: Kambrich) is a commune in the Moselle department in Grand Est in north-eastern France.