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    Noble-Contrée is a municipality in the district of Sierre in the canton of Valais in Switzerland. On 1 January 2021 the former municipalities of Miège...
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    Plan-Sierre soon took over the leadership role in the Noble Contrée. Until 1798, the Noble Contrée was appointed by a council of village representatives...
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  • This list contains all cultural property of national significance (class A) in the canton of Valais from the 2009 Swiss Inventory of Cultural Property...
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    fortified tower in the village of Venthône which is part of municipality of Noble-Contrée of the Canton of Valais in Switzerland. It is a Swiss heritage site...
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  • of Miège, Venthône and Veyras merged to form the new municipality of Noble-Contrée. In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the CVP which...
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  • Interlaken Bern Niederrohrdorf Aargau Niederweningen Zürich Niederwil Aargau Noble-Contrée Valais Nods Bern Nottwil Lucerne Novaggio Ticino Novalles Vaud Novazzano...
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    of Miège, Venthône and Veyras merged to form the new municipality of Noble-Contrée. Veyras had an area, as of 2009[update], of 1.5 square kilometers (0...
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  • of Miège, Venthône and Veyras merged to form the new municipality of Noble-Contrée. Venthône had an area, as of 2009[update], of 2.5 square kilometers...
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    of Miège, Venthône and Veyras merged to form the new municipality of Noble-Contrée. Miège is first mentioned in 1226 as Mieio. The municipality was formerly...
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    1200-1300 Active church, minor basilica since 1984 Venthône Castle Noble-Contrée 46°18′27″N 7°31′55″E / 46.3075°N 7.5320°E / 46.3075; 7.5320 Tower...
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  • Pleujouse La Baroche 2009 Miège Valais Merged with Venthône and Veyras Noble-Contrée 2021 Misery Fribourg Merged with Courtion, Cormérod and Cournillens...
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    Duke (category Noble titles)
    are examples of duke as a subsidiary title, granted to the most powerful noble houses: Duke of Barcelos, to be used by the heir of the Duke of Braganza;...
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    ne saurait récuser. Saint Jérôme, qui avait longtemps voyagé dans cette contrée, dit dans sa lettre à Dardanus (ep. 129) que de la limite du nord jusqu'à...
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    sainte Marie-Madeleine en Provence et sur les autres apôtres de cette contrée, saint Lazare, saint Maximin, sainte Marthe et les saintes Maries Jacobé...
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    Modern Indian History, University of Travancore - India; Mémoires sur les contrées occidentales, 1858, p 313, fn 3, Stanislas Julien Xuanzang - Buddhism....
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    succession as was common in Europe, but based on an election by the court nobles from the Kongo people. This required the king to win his legitimacy by a...
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    Freiherr Truchseß von Wetzhausen. Esperanza was a member of the Basque noble family of Sarachaga. The family belonged to the landed nobility, although...
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    not appear in the Jesuit Relations or on any contemporary maps. Instead, Contrée does Hurons or Pays des Hurons was favoured. It appears on some later Jesuit...
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    Sciences of Liège. Born in Liège, he was the only son of an ancient and noble family, and his education was carefully directed. After completing his classical...
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    adapted the anachronistic French scholarly phrase "évèque régionnaire des contrées américaines" into Latin. Handwriting experts at the 1966 Conference tended...
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    appendice contenant des recherches sur la situation actuelle des principales contrées de l'Allemagne. Tome premier; Tome second; Tome troisième; Tome quatrième;...
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    in 1509. Shortly afterwards the king sent many of his children and other nobles to study in Coimbra, Portugal to aid him in modernizing the kingdom. Among...
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    "Observations sur un essai de carte géologique de la France, des Pays-Bas, et des contrées voisines" [Observations on a trial geological map of France, the Low Countries...
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    for example, Itinéraire du St. Gothard, d'une partie de Vallais et des contrées de la Suisse, que l'on traverse ordinairement pour se rendre au Gothard...
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  • Revue Archéologique. 4 (2): 474–477. ISSN 0035-0737. JSTOR 41745542. la contrée appelée le Champ-Vieillard un monastère de fem mes, à la tète duquel il...
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  • la position centrale et prédominante qu'il occupe à l'intérieur de la contrée actuellement appelée Mokër, et grâce au contrôle de la route qui conduisait...
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    of trade (1626), the commerce of the city was given great stimulus, the noble families taking part in its mercantile enterprises. Captured by Nicolas...
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    1969. Vol. 1, Vol. 2 Julien, Stanislas, (1857/1858). Mémoires sur les contrées occidentales, L'Imprimerie impériale, Paris. Vol.1 Vol.2 Li, Rongxi (translator)...
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    Van den Eynde (family) (category Dutch noble families)
    Van den Eynde is the name of an old Netherlandish noble family. One of the earliest recorded Van den Eynde to use the three-duck canting arms was Jacob...
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  • language. Mémoires géographiques et historiques sur l'Égypte… sur quelques contrées voisines, 2 volumes (1811). The publication of Quatremère's Mémoires forced...
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