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    applies to the Romance-speaking cantons in particular: Geneva (formally République et canton de Genève, 'Republic and canton of Geneva'), Jura, Neuchâtel...
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    Château de Stains (transl. Castle of Stains, destroyed in the War of 1870) Cité-jardin de Stains (transl. Garden City of Stains) Town hall of Stains Château...
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    Guangzhou, previously romanized as Canton or Kwangchow, is the capital and largest city of Guangdong province in southern China. Located on the Pearl River...
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    The Canton of Cartagena (Spanish: Cantón de Cartagena), also known as the Canton of Murcia (Spanish: Cantón Murciano), was a period of Cartagena, Spain's...
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  • communes: Saint-Denis (partly) Stains Décret n° 2014-217 du 21 février 2014 portant délimitation des cantons dans le département de la Seine-Saint-Denis v t...
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    Herzegovina contains a fleur-de-lis alongside the Croatian chequy. Fleurs also appear in the flags and arms of many cantons, municipalities, cities and...
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    The Cantonal rebellion was a cantonalist insurrection that took place during the First Spanish Republic between July 1873 and January 1874. Its protagonists...
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    Liebfrauenkirche, Zurich (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    locating the Swiss National Museum: in order to persuade the Catholic cantons to set the museum in Zurich, an offer was made to facilitate the purchase...
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    version of the flag featured a circle of seven white stars in the navy-blue canton, representing the seven states of the South that originally composed the...
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    Grossmünster (category Cultural property of national significance in the canton of Zürich)
    Its congregation forms part of the Evangelical Reformed Church of the Canton of Zürich. The core of the present building near the banks of the Limmat...
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    Pierrefitte-sur-Seine (93059) Saint-Denis (93066) Saint-Ouen-sur-Seine (93070) Stains (93072) Villetaneuse (93079) The arrondissement of Saint-Denis was created...
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    Pierrefitte-sur-Seine, Épinay-sur-Seine, L'Île-Saint-Denis (since 2003), Stains (since 2003), and La Courneuve (since 2005)) in Plaine Commune. In 2003...
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    Tincture (heraldry) (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    heraldic writers, although they remained scarce, and were eventually termed stains, from the belief that they were used to signify some dishonour on the part...
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    Seine-Saint-Denis (category Departments of Île-de-France)
    Seine-Saint-Denis and Val-de-Marne were the only departments where the Communist Party had a majority in the general councils but the 2008 cantonal elections saw...
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    the Legislative Assembly, the Sections of Paris, the Assemblies of the Cantons and all who imitated us? For all these things have been illegal, as illegal...
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    Évreux (section Cantons)
    part of three cantons: The canton of Évreux-1 includes a part of Évreux and the communes of: Arnières-sur-Iton and Saint-Sébastien-de-Morsent (pop: 24...
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    Biel/Bienne (category Municipalities of the canton of Bern)
    Italian: Bienna; Romansh: Bienna; Latin: Belna) is a bilingual city in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. With over 55,000 residents, it is the country's...
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    Zurich (category Municipalities of the canton of Zürich)
    German: Züri) is the largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zurich. It is located in north-central Switzerland, at the northwestern...
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    Spanish designs on the territory, Richelieu supported the Protestant Swiss canton of Grisons, which also claimed the strategically important valley. The cardinal...
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    Canal de l'Ourcq. It includes Chanteloup, Central Station, Pont de l'Union, and Nonneville. When the construction of Clos Saint-Lazare at Stains ended...
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    part of the canton of Bondy, created in 2015. Bondy is served by Bondy station on Paris RER line E and the Line 4 (T4) of the Tramways in Île-de-France. As...
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    The Abbaye de la Fille-Dieu is a Cistercian monastery located near the town of Romont in the Swiss Canton of Fribourg. Founded as a Benedictine priory...
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    troops, all consuls in Canton as well as the missionaries and a score of priests. The bishop and the consul of France, Baron Gilbert de Trenqualye, delivered...
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    Goetheanum (category Buildings and structures in the canton of Solothurn)
    The Goetheanum, located in Dornach, in the canton of Solothurn, Switzerland, is the world center for the anthroposophical movement. The building was designed...
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  • Walter Loosli (category People from the canton of Bern)
    engraver and maker of painted stained glass panels and windows. Loosli was born in La Chaux-d'Abel, a part of Sonvilier in the canton of Bern, Switzerland. He...
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    Swiss municipality and seat of the district of the same name located in the canton of Jura. Porrentruy is home to National League team, HC Ajoie. The city's...
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    Flag of Latvia (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    national flag. In top left canton of the flag, the coat of arms is placed. The height of coat of arms is 5⁄6 of the height of canton, and the sun of coat of...
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  • plain) include those of the d'Albret family, the Rossi family, the Swiss canton of Schwyz (prior to 1815), and the old coats of arms of the cities of Nîmes...
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  • Vannes. The ermine canton recalls the ducal arms of Brittany. Flag of Centre-Val de Loire A blue field with three golden fleurs-de-lis below a white label...
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    the canton of Saint-Ouen-sur-Seine, which also includes L'Île-Saint-Denis and part of Épinay-sur-Seine. Saint-Ouen also includes the Cimetière de Saint-Ouen...
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