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    Saint-Martin (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ maʁtɛ̃] ) is a municipality in the district of Hérens in the canton of Valais in Switzerland. Saint-Martin is...
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  • département Saint-Martin-sur-Oust, Morbihan département Saint-Martin, Fribourg St. Martin, Graubünden Saint-Martin, Valais Fornham St Martin, a village and...
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    Valais (UK: /ˈvæleɪ/ VAL-ay, US: /væˈleɪ/ val-AY; French: [valɛ] ), more formally, the Canton of Valais, is one of the 26 cantons forming the Swiss Confederation...
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  • St. Martin, Graubünden, in the canton of Graubünden Saint-Martin, Valais, in the Canton of Valais This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct...
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    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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    October 1910, in Saint-Martin, Valais – 11 February 2001, in Sion) was a French-speaking Swiss writer. He was born in Saint-Martin, Valais, a small village...
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  • Germaine Cousin-Zermatten (category People from Valais)
    Cousin-Zermatten, born in Switzerland on 22 April 1925 in Saint-Martin in the canton of Valais, is a Swiss herbalist and author who—following personal research...
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    Upper Valais invaded Savoy territories, annexing the Lower Valais as far as Massongex and organizing it as a subject country. In 1569, Chablais Valais was...
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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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    century, however, the cult of Saint Monica began to spread and a feast in her honour was kept on 4 May. In 1430, Pope Martin V ordered that the relics be...
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    All Saints' Day, also known as All Hallows' Day, the Feast of All Saints, the Feast of All Hallows, the Solemnity of All Saints, and Hallowmas, is a Christian...
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    Chanoux and his faithful St. Bernard, Rutor A St. Bernard rescue dog in Valais A painting by John Emms portraying St. Bernards as rescue dogs The name...
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    Saint Petersburg, formerly known as Petrograd and later Leningrad, is the second-largest city in Russia after Moscow. It is situated on the River Neva...
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    Valais romand — Multimedia website from the University of Neuchâtel with audio and video clips of Franco-Provençal speakers from the canton of Valais...
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    Martigny (redirect from Martigny, Valais)
    imperialist Napoleonic Republic of Valais, then in the Rhodanic Republic, which passed to France from 1810 to 1814. The Valais/Wallis passed to Switzerland...
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    Works of Saint Augustine (in English)" from Augustinus.it "Complete Works of Saint Augustine (in French)" from Abbey Saint Benoît de Port-Valais "Complete...
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    Le Petit Chasseur is the name of a megalithic site in Sion, Valais, Switzerland. Discovered in 1961, it consists of three dolmen, dated to between 2900...
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    This is a partial list of canonised saints in the Eastern Orthodox Church. In the Eastern Orthodox Church, a saint is defined as anyone who is in heaven...
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    Pas de Lona (category Mountain passes of Valais)
    mountain pass across the Pennine Alps, located in the canton of Valais. It connects Saint-Martin with Grimentz and is the lowest pass between the valleys of...
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    Galicia, in northwestern Spain. The city has its origin in the shrine of Saint James the Great, now the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, as the destination...
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    fringes of Italy and Austria. The Walser people are named after the Wallis (Valais), the uppermost Rhône valley, where they settled from roughly the 10th century...
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    Tour St-Martin) is a peak of the Diablerets massif, located on the border of the municipalities of Conthey and Savièse in the canton of Valais. It lies...
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    Nax (redirect from Nax (Valais))
    Nax is a former municipality in the district of Hérens in the canton of Valais in Switzerland. On 1 January 2011, the former municipalities of Vernamiège...
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    St. Peter Port (French: Saint-Pierre Port) is a town and one of the ten parishes on the island of Guernsey in the Channel Islands. It is the capital of...
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  • Hérémence is a municipality in the district of Hérens in the canton of Valais in Switzerland. Hérémence is first mentioned in 1195 as Aremens. Hérémence...
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    central-southeastern Baden-Wuerttemberg, wae – Walser German, mainly spoken in Swiss Upper Valais in the Alps. Standard German is used in writing and in Germany orally in...
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    Grotte aux Fées (Switzerland) (category Tourist attractions in Valais)
    Saint-Maurice. Retrieved 3 January 2011. "Fortresses of Cindey and du Scex/Saint-Maurice". Valais/Wallis Promotion. Retrieved 3 January 2011. Wikimedia Commons has...
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    St Helier (redirect from Saint Elier)
    St Helier (/ˈhɛliər/; Jèrriais: Saint Hélyi; French: Saint-Hélier) is the capital of Jersey, the largest of the Channel Islands in the English Channel...
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    now named Saint Maurice-en-Valais after Saint Maurice. According to legend, Saints Cassius and Florentius, who were under the command of Saint Gereon, were...
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    is a municipality and capital of the district of Hérens in the canton of Valais in Switzerland. Vex has an area, as of 2009[update], of 13 square kilometers...
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