Provence is a municipality in the district of Jura-Nord Vaudois in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. Provence is first mentioned in 1340 as Provency...
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administrative region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur and includes the departments of Var, Bouches-du-Rhône, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, as well as parts of Alpes-Maritimes...
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Burgundy Provence, Switzerland, a municipality in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland SS La Provence, an ocean liner launched in 1905 French ship Provence, various...
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Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur (French: [pʁɔvɑ̃s alp kot dazyʁ] ; lit. 'Provence-Alps-Azure Coast'; or 'Provence, Alps, French Riviera', commonly shortened...
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Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a landlocked country located in west-central Europe. It is bordered by Italy to the south, France...
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Aix-en-Provence or simply Aix, is a city and commune in southern France, about 30 km (20 mi) north of Marseille. A former capital of Provence, it is the...
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Marseille Provence Airport (French: Aéroport Marseille-Provence) (IATA: MRS, ICAO: LFML) is an international airport located 27 km (17 miles) northwest...
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Kingdom of Burgundy (category Medieval history of Switzerland)
the regions of Lower Burgundy and Provence. The latter were left to the youngest son, thus known as Charles of Provence. This partition created more conflicts...
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the Counts of Provence. In 1481, the title passed to Louis XI of France. In 1486 Provence was legally incorporated into France. Provence has been a part...
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Yule log (cake) (category Culinary Heritage of Switzerland)
served as a dessert, especially in France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Lebanon, Switzerland, Vietnam, and Quebec, Canada. Variants are also served in the United...
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Anthocharis euphenoides (redirect from Provence Orange Tip)
Anthocharis euphenoides, the Provence orange tip, is a species of butterfly in the family Pieridae. It is found in the Iberian Peninsula (missing in the...
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(France and Italy) all sharing borders and populations with Switzerland, neutrality proved difficult. Under the Schlieffen Plan, the German General Staff...
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Aix-en-Provence TGV or simply Aix TGV (French: Gare d'Aix-en-Provence TGV) is a high-speed railway station on the LGV Méditerranée located on the municipal...
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Kingdom of Arles (redirect from Kingdom of Provence (medieval))
present-day French regions of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, Rhône-Alpes and Franche-Comté, as well as western Switzerland. Until 1032 it was ruled by independent...
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Sainte-Croix (section In Switzerland)
Tarn, in the Tarn department Sainte-Croix-à-Lauze, in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department Sainte-Croix-aux-Mines, in the Haut-Rhin department Sainte-Croix-de-Caderle...
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Alpes-de-Haute-Provence (sometimes abbreviated as AHP; French pronunciation: [alp də ot pʁɔvɑ̃s] ; Occitan: Aups d'Auta Provença; lit. 'Alps of Upper Provence'),...
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The Swiss franc, or simply the franc, is the currency and legal tender of Switzerland and Liechtenstein. It is also legal tender in the Italian exclave...
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Provence Alps and Prealps (Alpes et Préalpes de Provence in French) are a mountain range in the south-western part of the Alps, located in Provence-Alpes-Côte...
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"painting tour" of Europe, 1922–1924. Painting in Brittany, Paris, Provence, Switzerland, and Venice. His favorite place in Europe was the Alps, where he...
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The Provence Donkey, French: Âne de Provence, is a breed of domestic donkey from Provence, in south-eastern France. It is now distributed through much...
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EF Education–Nippo Development Team (redirect from NIPPO-Provence-PTS Conti)
2022. "Team NIPPO-Provence-PTS Conti". ProCyclingStats. Retrieved 6 February 2021. Ostanek, Daniel (2 December 2020). "Nippo-Provence-PTS Continental team...
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Aix-Marseille University (redirect from University of Aix-en-Provence)
university located in the Provence region of southern France. It was founded in 1409 when Louis II of Anjou, Count of Provence, petitioned the Pisan Antipope...
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Aix-en-Provence. According to the Swiss Federal Prosecutor's office and media, in the 1990s and early 2000s Al Qaeda members had accounts at Swiss banks...
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Upper Burgundy. In 933, Rudolph acquired the Kingdom of Lower Burgundy (Provence) from King Hugh of Italy in exchange for the waiver of his claims to the...
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Marseille (redirect from Marseille, Provence)
the department of Bouches-du-Rhône and of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. Situated in the Provence region, it is located on the coast of the Mediterranean...
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Banking in Switzerland dates to the early 18th century through Switzerland's merchant trade and over the centuries has grown into a complex and regulated...
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The Economy of Switzerland is one of the world's most advanced and a highly-developed free market economy. The economy of Switzerland has ranked first...
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Roamer is a Swiss manufacturer of luxury watches, now based in Wallbach, Switzerland. Roamer was founded by Fritz Meyer in Solothurn, Switzerland, in 1888...
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movement within liberalism in Switzerland. It is limited to liberal and radical parties with substantial support, mainly proved by having had a representation...
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regulation in Switzerland allows the acquisition of semi-automatic, and – with a may-issue permit – fully automatic firearms, by Swiss citizens and foreigners...
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