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    Noble-Contrée (French pronunciation: [nɔbl kɔ̃tʁe]) is a municipality in the district of Sierre in the canton of Valais in Switzerland. On 1 January 2021...
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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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    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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  • 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. Venthône had an area, as of 2009[update], of 2.5 square kilometers...
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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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • Fedtschenko, Alexei Pavlovovitch (June 1874), "Le Khanat de Khokand et les Contrées Environnantes" [The Khanate of Kokand and Surrounding Countries], in Guyard...
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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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    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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    Duke (category Noble titles)
    Mélanésie, ainsi que ses nouvelles classifications et divisions de ces contrées, Firmin Didot Frères, Paris, 1834 United States Congressional Serial Set...
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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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    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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    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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  • Ardennaises ou histoire des lieux qui forment le deṕartement des Ardennes et des contrées voisines. (n.p.): Lelaurin. Vinchant, F. (1853). Annales de la province...
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    adapted the anachronistic French scholarly phrase "évêque régionnaire des contrées américaines" into Latin. Handwriting experts at the 1966 Conference tended...
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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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    Mirabeau's opinions on the topic, but was not in a position to criticize the "noble order" espoused by the Society of the Cincinnati directly, because he was...
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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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    "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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    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)
    pronunciation: [vɑn dən ˈɛində, vɑn də ˈʔɛində]) is the name of an old Netherlandish noble family. One of the earliest recorded Van den Eynde to use the three-duck...
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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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  • 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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