• 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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  • 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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    which it has continued to do after his death. Born on 12 May 1915, in Provence, Vaud, Schutz was the ninth and youngest child of Karl Ulrich Schutz, a Protestant...
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    There are 300 municipalities in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland, (as of January 2022[update]). Vaud is the canton with the 2nd most municipalities (after...
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    Louis I (1249/50 – 1302) was the Baron of Vaud. At the time of his birth he was a younger son of the House of Savoy, but through a series of deaths and...
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    subject by Edmund Landau. Jérôme Franel was a citizen ("bourgeois") of Provence (Vaud, Switzerland). He was born on 29 November 1859 in Travers (Neuchâtel...
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  • Romairon (redirect from Romairon (Vaud))
    former municipality in the district of Jura-Nord Vaudois in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. The municipalities of Fontanezier, Romairon, Vaugondry and...
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  • Préverenges Vaud Prévondavaux Fribourg Prévonloup Vaud Prez Fribourg Prilly Vaud Provence Vaud Puidoux Vaud Pully Vaud Puplinge Geneva Pura Ticino Quarten St. Gallen...
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    USS Vaud J. (SP-3361) was a United States Navy patrol vessel in service from 1918 to 1919. Vaud J. was built in 1907 as a private motorboat of the same...
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    is a municipality in the district of Jura-Nord vaudois of the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. It is the seat of the district. The population of Yverdon-les-Bains...
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    is a municipality in the district of Jura-Nord Vaudois in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. It is situated on the south-west tip of Lake Neuchâtel, about...
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  • 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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  • Grandson District (category Former districts of the canton of Vaud)
    Grandson was a district of the Canton of Vaud in Switzerland. The seat of the district was the town of Grandson. On 1 September 2006 the district was dissolved...
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    the Var department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France. La Crau is twinned with: Villeneuve, Vaud, Switzerland, since 1987...
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    Limousin, Auvergne, Languedoc, Provence, Dauphiné (south) and Nice. We must add the Val d'Aran, in the Spanish Pyrenees, and the Vaud valleys of Piedmont, in...
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  • former municipality in the district of Jura-Nord Vaudois in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. The municipalities of Fontanezier, Romairon, Vaugondry and...
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  • Mutrux (redirect from Mutrux (Vaud))
    is a municipality in the district of Jura-Nord Vaudois in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. Mutrux is first mentioned in 1309 as Mostrue. In 1359 it...
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    for facilitated naturalisation under article 38 §3 part a. The Canton of Vaud legislated in 2004 to allow for second-generation foreigners to acquire Swiss...
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    positions in junior categories of major races, and won the Tour du Pays de Vaud in 2018. Shortly after, he had a setback after receiving a ten-month suspension...
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    Alps, inherited by Charles of Provence. This latter territory comprised what would become known as Savoy and Provence. For a short time, this province...
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    sides of the Rhone, its main river. Within the country, the canton borders Vaud to the east, the only adjacent canton. However, most of Geneva's border is...
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    counts further enlarged their territory when, in 1218, they inherited the Vaud lands north of Lake Geneva from the extinct House of Zähringen. In 1220,...
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  • Ermengarde of Burgundy (category Countesses of Provence)
    noblewoman. Through her first marriage, to Rotbold II, Count of Provence, she was countess of Provence, and from 1011 to 1032 Ermengarde was the last queen of...
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    Viret was born in 1509 or 1510 in Orbe, then in the Barony of Vaud, now in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland. He was the son of Guillaume Viret, a tailor and...
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    Bonvillars (redirect from Bonvillars (Vaud))
    is a municipality in the district of Jura-Nord Vaudois in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. Bonvillars is first mentioned in 1100 AD as Binvilar. Local...
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    House of Savoy's possession. They once had claims on the modern canton of Vaud, where they occupied the Château of Chillon in Switzerland, but their access...
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    werewolves emerged in what is now Switzerland (especially the Valais and Vaud) in the early 15th century and spread throughout Europe in the 16th, peaking...
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    Basel-City (42%), canton of Neuchâtel (38%), canton of Geneva (35%), canton of Vaud (26%), or Zurich city (city: >25%; canton: 23%). The earliest forms of literature...
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    was born on 10 September 1903 in Roche, a small village in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. He was the fifth born of the six children in the family of...
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    In 1234, Thomas and his brother William escorted his niece, Margaret of Provence to her wedding with Louis IX of France. While Thomas hoped to stay with...
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