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    Lake Brienz (German: Brienzersee) is a lake just north of the Alps, in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. It has a length of about 14 kilometres (8.7 mi)...
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    Lake Neuchâtel (French: Lac de Neuchâtel [lak də nøʃɑtɛl]; Arpitan: Lèc de Nôchâtél; German: Neuenburgersee) is a lake primarily in Romandy, the French-speaking...
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    Lake Geneva (redirect from Lac de Genève)
    language is this?] and then the Lac de Lausanne in the Middle Ages.[citation needed] Following the rise of Geneva it became Lac de Genève (translated into English...
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    Lake Thun (redirect from Lac de Thoune)
    after the last glacial period. After the 10th century, it split from Lake Brienz, before which the two lakes were combined, as Wendelsee ("Lake Wendel")...
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    Lake Morat (redirect from Lac de Morat)
    Lake Morat or more rarely Lake Murten (French: Lac de Morat [lak də mɔʁa]) is a lake located in the cantons of Fribourg and Vaud in the west of Switzerland...
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    settlements' (in English usually translated as forest cantons), French: lac des Quatre-Cantons, Italian: lago dei Quattro Cantoni) is a lake in central...
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    Lake Biel (redirect from Lac de Bienne)
    Lake Biel or Lake Bienne (German: Bielersee; French: Lac de Bienne [lak də bjɛn]) is a lake in western Switzerland. Together with Lake Morat and Lake Neuchâtel...
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    Aare (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    causeways through the gorge. A little past Meiringen, near Brienz, the river expands into Lake Brienz. Near the west end of the lake it indirectly receives...
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    Lake Zug (redirect from Lac de Zoug)
    v t e Lakes of Switzerland Major lakes Lake Biel (Lac de Bienne, Bielersee) Lake Brienz (Brienzersee) Lake Constance (Bodensee) Lower Lake Constance (Untersee)...
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    Walensee (redirect from Lac de Walenstadt)
    inspiration for a solo piano piece by Hungarian Romantic composer Franz Liszt, Au lac de Wallenstadt. The piece is part of a collection of solo piano works inspired...
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    Bernese Oberland (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Lake Brienz, the two large lakes of the region. On the banks of the lakes or the Aare are the main settlements of Thun, Spiez, Interlaken, Brienz and Meiringen...
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    Max Buri (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Switzerland, initially living in Langnau im Emmental, then settling in Brienz. For many years, he was a devoted follower of the Munich School and only...
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    Lake Lugano (redirect from Lac de Lugano)
    (Italian: Lago di Lugano or Ceresio, from Latin: Ceresius lacus; Lombard: Lagh de Lugan) is a glacial lake which is situated on the border between southern...
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    Lake Hallwil (redirect from Lac de Hallwil)
    v t e Lakes of Switzerland Major lakes Lake Biel (Lac de Bienne, Bielersee) Lake Brienz (Brienzersee) Lake Constance (Bodensee) Lower Lake Constance (Untersee)...
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    Lake Sempach (redirect from Lac de Sempach)
    v t e Lakes of Switzerland Major lakes Lake Biel (Lac de Bienne, Bielersee) Lake Brienz (Brienzersee) Lake Constance (Bodensee) Lower Lake Constance (Untersee)...
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    Lake Zurich (redirect from Lac de Zurich)
    Lake Zurich is a glacial lake that was formed by the Rhine-Linth glacier [de]. Its main tributary is the River Linth, which rises in the glaciers of the...
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    Sihlsee (redirect from Lac de Sihl)
    section of the upper Sihl Valley. The lake feeds the Etzelwerk power station [de], which is located 5 kilometres (3 mi) to the north-east in Altendorf on the...
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    v t e Lakes of Switzerland Major lakes Lake Biel (Lac de Bienne, Bielersee) Lake Brienz (Brienzersee) Lake Constance (Bodensee) Lower Lake Constance (Untersee)...
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    Lake Maggiore (redirect from Lac de Locarno)
    v t e Lakes of Switzerland Major lakes Lake Biel (Lac de Bienne, Bielersee) Lake Brienz (Brienzersee) Lake Constance (Bodensee) Lower Lake Constance (Untersee)...
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    v t e Lakes of Switzerland Major lakes Lake Biel (Lac de Bienne, Bielersee) Lake Brienz (Brienzersee) Lake Constance (Bodensee) Lower Lake Constance (Untersee)...
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    (around 300 AD). Hence the French: Lac de Constance, Italian: Lago di Costanza, Portuguese: Lago de Constança, Spanish: Lago de Constanza, Romanian: Lacul Constanța...
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    Aare in the event of any upstream flooding as far as the lakes Thun and Brienz and of course “Grand Marais”. Since the Second Jura water correction, the...
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    Tauredunum event (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    at least three lakes in Switzerland – Lake Lucerne, Lake Lauerz and Lake Brienz. The danger is recognised by Switzerland's Federal Office for Civil Protection...
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  • v t e Lakes of Switzerland Major lakes Lake Biel (Lac de Bienne, Bielersee) Lake Brienz (Brienzersee) Lake Constance (Bodensee) Lower Lake Constance (Untersee)...
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    Murten /Lac de Morat /Murtensee Canton of Fribourg, Vaud Switzerland 1.6 years Oeschinen Lake Bernese Oberland Switzerland 1.61 years Lac de Lessy Haute-Savoie...
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  • updated (as of January 2024[update]).   "Répertoire officiel des communes de Suisse". Statistique Suisse. 2009-01-01. Archived from the original on 12...
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    Volume of crude oil consumed by the world in a year 5.17×109 volume of Lake Brienz 5.2×109 Volume of the artificial Gatun Lake (Panama Canal) 6.5×109 Volume...
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    v t e Lakes of Switzerland Major lakes Lake Biel (Lac de Bienne, Bielersee) Lake Brienz (Brienzersee) Lake Constance (Bodensee) Lower Lake Constance (Untersee)...
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  • Thumbnail for Alfred Stucky
    Alfred Stucky (category People from La Chaux-de-Fonds)
    Bosshard, Steiner & Co, which hired him during construction of the Lake Brienz railway. From around 1915 to 1923, Stucky worked at the Basel office of...
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    Geography of Switzerland (category Articles with German-language sources (de))
    of Zurich. Then come Lake Lugano, Lake Thun, Lake Biel, Lake Zug, Lake Brienz, Lake Walenstadt and Lake Murten. These thirteen only are over 20 km2 (7...
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