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    Saint-Léonard is a municipality in the district of Sierre in the canton of Valais in Switzerland. The Saint-Léonard underground lake situated there is...
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    Saint-Léonard underground lake (French Lac souterrain de Saint-Léonard) is located at Saint Léonard in the canton of Valais, Switzerland. It is formed...
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    Orsières Port-Valais Randa Raron Riddes Ried-Brig Riederalp Saas-Almagell Saas-Balen Saas-Fee Saas-Grund Saillon Saint-Gingolph Saint-Léonard Saint-Martin (VS)...
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    St-Léonard railway station (French: Gare de St-Léonard, German: Bahnhof St-Léonard) is a railway station in the municipality of Saint-Léonard, in the Swiss...
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    areas in the Valais: the Chablais under the influence of the Cortaillod civilization and the upper Valais under that of the Saint-Léonard civilization...
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    in Paris to a family from the Valais, now the canton of Valais in Switzerland. His father, Pierre de Rivaz, born in Saint-Gingolph, had moved to Paris...
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    the Upper Valais broke away from the rest of the canton. Sion was chosen as the capital of the Valais, while the breakaway Upper Valais chose Sierre...
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  • Bissone Ticino Bister Valais Bitsch Valais Blatten Valais Blauen Basel-Landschaft Bleienbach Bern Blenio Ticino Blonay – Saint-Légier Vaud Blumenstein...
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  • The 2014 Valais Cup was an international football tournament that is part of the Valais Football Summer Cups. Matches being played on 6 July, 30 July and...
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  • (département) Le Bourg-Dun, Seine-Maritime Le Bourg-Saint-Léonard, Orne Bourg-Saint-Pierre, Valais canton Bourg, Louisiana Anne Bourg (born 1987), Luxembourgish...
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    to 1995. He was raised to the rank of cardinal in 1991. Born in St-Léonard, Valais, Schwery studied mathematics, theoretical physics, Catholic theology...
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    Sierre (redirect from Sierre (Valais))
    Sierre. In the conflicts between the conservative Upper Valais and the liberal Lower Valais, Sierre served as the seat of government in 1839–40. After...
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    pronunciation: [lɛ̃s]) is a municipality in the district of Sierre in the canton of Valais in Switzerland. Lens is first mentioned in 1177 as de Lenz. Lens has an...
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    Grône (redirect from Grône (Valais))
    Grône is a municipality in the district of Sierre in the canton of Valais in Switzerland. Grône is first mentioned around 1001-1100 as in Gruona. The municipality...
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    linked to the geological structures. The underground lake of Saint-Léonard, located in Valais, with its 300 m long and 25 m wide is a notable example. Each...
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    Ayent (redirect from Ayent (Valais))
    Ayent is a municipality in the district of Hérens in the canton of Valais in Switzerland. The Ayent area is first mentioned in 1052 as Agent. In 1250 it...
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    Icogne (redirect from Icogne (Valais))
    pronunciation: [ikɔɲ]) is a municipality in the district of Sierre in the canton of Valais in Switzerland. Icogne is first mentioned in 1233 as Ucogni. In 1249 it...
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  • Sierre District (category Districts of Valais)
    The district of Sierre is a district of the canton of Valais in Switzerland. It has a population of 49,427 (as of 31 December 2020). It comprises the following...
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    Bernard Tissier de Mallerais (category Members of the Society of Saint Pius X)
    traditionalist Catholic prelate who served as a bishop of the Society of Saint Pius X from 1988 until his death in 2024. Tissier de Mallerais was born...
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    Sabine Weiss (photographer) (category People from Valais)
    naturalised French citizen in 1995. Sabine Weber was born on 23 January 1924 in Saint-Gingolph, Switzerland. Her father was a chemical engineer who made artificial...
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    expansion into Switzerland occurred in 1995–1996 in the southern Canton of Valais, where around 100 sheep were killed. In 1998–1999, 40 sheep were killed...
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    Barry (dog) (category History of Valais)
    through taxidermy although his skull was modified in 1923 to match the Saint Bernard of that time period. His story and name have been used in literary...
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    mullets representing territorial divisions predating the U.S. flag is the Valais 1618 coat of arms, where seven mullets stood for seven districts. Another...
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    Maurice Tornay (category People from Valais)
    odium fidei" ('out of hatred of the faith'). Maurice Tornay was born in Valais in Switzerland on 31 August 1910 as the seventh of eight children to Jean-Joseph...
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    under the command of Generals Joseph Marie Servan de Gerbey and Jacques Léonard Muller, before joining the Armée des Pyrénées occidentales under General...
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    patriot and portrait painter. Michel Simon (1895–1975), actor Jean Charles Léonard de Sismondi (1773–1842), historian and political economist Edward Snowden...
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    1243 but believed to date from before the 12th century. Saint Giles is historically the patron saint of Edinburgh. St Cuthbert's, situated at the west end...
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    in 1975, it was named in tribute to Jean-Charles-Léonard Simonde, also known as Jean-Charles-Léonard Simonde de Sismondi. Admission to the Collège is...
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    and 11th), six congregations of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, an Old Catholic church, and an Anglican church in Berlin. Berlin has more...
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    Archived from the original on 6 May 2016. Retrieved 29 October 2015. Cowie, Leonard W. (1 September 1990). Lord Nelson, 1758–1805: A Bibliography. Greenwood...
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