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    Mattertal, part of the district of Visp in the canton of Valais in Switzerland. St. Niklaus is first mentioned in 1233 as chousun. In 1272 it was mentioned...
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    Feldbrunnen-St. Niklaus is a municipality in the district of Lebern in the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland. Feldbrunnen-St. Niklaus is first mentioned...
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    Niklaus" (PDF) (in German). PostBus Switzerland. 10 December 2023. Retrieved 8 October 2024. "Passagierfrequenz (2023)". St. Niklaus, Switzerland: SBB...
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    Niklaus Emil Wirth (15 February 1934 – 1 January 2024) was a Swiss computer scientist. He designed several programming languages, including Pascal, and...
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  • Niklaus may refer to: In Swiss geography: Feldbrunnen-St. Niklaus St. Niklaus People with the given name or surname Niklaus: Niklaus (name) Jack Nicklaus...
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    Nicholas of Flüe (German: Niklaus von Flüe; 1417 – 21 March 1487) was a Swiss hermit and ascetic who is the patron saint of Switzerland. He is sometimes invoked...
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    Karlstadt and Johannes Oecolampadius), Bern (Berchtold Haller and Niklaus Manuel), and St. Gallen (Joachim Vadian). One canton, Appenzell, was officially...
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    St. Niklaus" (PDF) (in German). PostBus Switzerland. 10 December 2023. Retrieved 7 October 2024. "Passagierfrequenz (2023)". St. Niklaus, Switzerland:...
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    Niklaus Manuel Deutsch (Niklaus Manuel, c. 1484 – 28 April 1530), of Bern, was a Swiss artist, writer, mercenary and Reformed politician. Niklaus was...
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    national ensign, it was first used during the Napoleonic Wars by general Niklaus Franz von Bachmann, and as regimental flag of all cantonal troops from...
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    Niklaus Leodegar Franz Ignaz von Bachmann (Näfels, 27 March 1740 – Näfels, 11 February 1831) was a Swiss general who fought in the Napoleonic Wars. Bachmann...
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    St. Gallen is a Swiss city and the capital of the canton of St. Gallen. It evolved from the hermitage of Saint Gall, founded in the 7th century. Today...
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    Peter Sarbach (category Swiss mountain climbers)
    pioneer mountain guide from St. Niklaus in Switzerland, near the village of Zermatt. He became notable as a guide in Switzerland, so much so that he was invited...
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    Niklaus Riggenbach (21 May 1817 – 25 July 1899) was an Alsatian-born Swiss mechanic, railway engineer, politician and inventor of the rack railway system...
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    Haller and Niklaus Manuel), St. Gallen,(Joachim Vadian), to cities in southern Germany and via Alsace (Martin Bucer) to France. Since 1920, the Swiss Reformed...
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    quotations related to Niklaus Pfluger. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Niklaus Pfluger. English information on the Society of St. Pius X of which Father...
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    canton of Valais in Switzerland. The village is situated at an altitude of 1,620 meters (5,310 ft) on a terrace above St. Niklaus in the Mattertal, north...
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    leader Niklaus Leuenberger, the so-called peace on the Murifeld. The peasant armies retreated. The Tagsatzung, the federal council of the Old Swiss Confederacy...
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    Bern (redirect from Bern, Switzerland)
    Bern (Swiss Standard German: [bɛrn] ), or Berne (French: [bɛʁn] ), is the de facto capital of Switzerland, referred to as the "federal city". With a population...
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    passage of allied troops across Swiss territory (see the minor campaigns of 1815). Swiss troops under General Niklaus Franz von Bachmann advanced to the...
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    Öschberg/Öschfurt and St. Niklaus were used as resting places along the east–west road. St. Niklaus was named after the chapel of St. Niklaus that was built...
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  • The President of the National Council of Switzerland (German: Nationalratspräsident; French: Président du Conseil national, Italian: Presidente del Consiglio...
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    for Joseph (Josef) Pollinger (1873–1943), an alpine guide from St. Niklaus, Switzerland, who visited Canada in 1901 with Whymper. During the short time...
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    De Steiger (category Swiss noble families)
    Niklaus is buried in a cathedral in Bern. Niklaus Friedrich von Steiger (1729–1799), Swiss politician Johann Rudolf de Steiger (1778–1834), Swiss-American...
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  • Solothurn, St. Gallen, Thun, Trimbach, Uster, Vevey, Wädenswil, Wil, Winterthur, Yverdon, Zofingen, Zug, Zürich List of members of the Swiss Council of...
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    German, French and Italian in the online Historical Dictionary of Switzerland. Niklaus Flüeler; Roland Gfeller-Corthésy (1975). Die Schweiz vom Bau der...
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    / St. Niklaus" (PDF) (in German). PostBus Switzerland. 10 December 2023. Retrieved 7 October 2024. "Passagierfrequenz (2023)". Stalden, Switzerland: SBB...
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    The early modern history of the Old Swiss Confederacy (Eidgenossenschaft, also known as the "Swiss Republic" or Republica Helvetiorum) and its constituent...
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    Niklaus Meienberg (11 May 1940 – 22 September 1993) was a Swiss writer and investigative journalist. Meienberg lived in Zürich and published 14 books...
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  • Bernoulli family (category Pages with Swiss Standard German IPA)
    trader, also named Jacob, moved to Basel, Switzerland in 1620, and was granted citizenship in 1622. His son, Niklaus Bernoulli [de] (Nicolaus, 1623–1708),...
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