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	Commune in France - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The median population of metropolitan France's communes as of the 1999 census was 380 inhabitants.
		However, the size of a commune still matters in two domains: French law determines the size of the municipal council according to the population of the commune; and the size of the population also determines which voting process is used for the election of the municipal council.
		The commune of the French Republic furthest away from Paris is the commune of (1,671 inhabitants) in New Caledonia: 16,841 km.
	www.americancanyon.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Commune_in_France (4718 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search View - Switzerland
		Switzerland is a major international financial center, and private banking is one of the country’s principal employers and sources of income.
		Although Switzerland is landlocked, the Swiss merchant marine, created by decree of the federal government in 1941, consists of 23 large oceangoing vessels and numerous river barges, which operate from foreign ports and from the port of Basel on the Rhine River.
		Switzerland’s first guild of watchmakers was established in Geneva in the early 17th century, and the industry soon extended along the Jura mountain chain stretching from Geneva to Schaffhausen.
	encarta.msn.com /text_761571795__1/Switzerland.html (11229 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Switzerland
		Switzerland also contains a large number of lakes, the largest of which are on the edges of the Alps and the Jura, such as Geneva or Leman, Constance, Neuchâtel, Lucerne, Lugano, Maggiore, and Zürich.
		On the organization of the Roman provinces before Diocletian the northwestern past of the territory of Switzerland belonged to the provinces of Germania Superior, the southwestern section (Geneva) to the Provincia Narbonensis, the eastern and the greater part of the southeastern region to the province of Rhaetia.
		The German regions of Switzerland fell to the Duchy of Swabia in 917.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/14358a.htm (8038 words)

	Municipalities of Switzerland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Municipalities (sometimes called communities, after the French/Italian names) are the smallest government division in Switzerland.
		Switzerland has approximately 2900 municipalities (communes/Gemeinden/comuni), with many having a population of a few hundred citizens, but also the largest cities like Zurich or Geneva have legally the status of municipalities.
		See cantons of Switzerland for the number of municipalities per canton.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Communes_in_Switzerland (310 words)

	Switzerland
		Switzerland is a constitutional democracy with a federal structure.
		On April 28, the Swiss Federal Court (Supreme Court) ruled that it was constitutional to refuse a license to run a private school to a body affiliated with the Church of Scientology, because of the latter's controversial nature, a stance the Court had already taken previously in 1993 and 1996.
		Switzerland is primarily a country of destination, and secondarily transit, for mostly women trafficked for the purposes of sexual exploitation and domestic servitude.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2003/27867.htm (9878 words)

	Savoy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Savoy (Italian: Savoia, French: Savoie) is a region of western Europe that emerged, along with the free communes of Switzerland, following the collapse of the Frankish Kingdom of Burgundy.
		Installed by Rudolph III, King of Burgundy, officially in 1003, the House of Savoy maintained independence as counts (see County of Savoy, ca 1000 to 1416) and then dukes (see Duchy of Savoy, 1416 to 1714), until Savoia was linked with the Kingdom of Sardinia, which included Piemonte in north-western Italy.
		This followed a plebiscite in which the people were offered the option of joining France or joining the new Italian state; the disallowed options of either joining Switzerland (with which the region had close ties), or of regaining its independence, were the source of some opposition.
	www.kernersville.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Savoy (706 words)

	Switzerland
		Switzerland was invited by the Community of Democracies' (CD) Convening Group to attend the November 2002 second CD Ministerial Meeting in Seoul, Republic of Korea, as a participant.
		The 1967 revised Military Penal Code (MPC) requires that all war crimes or violations of the Geneva Convention be prosecuted and tried in Switzerland, regardless of where a crime was committed and whether the defendant was a member of an army or a civilian.
		On November 26, the Federal Court upheld a ruling of a Zurich cantonal court, which in January 2001 sentenced a Thai woman to 4½ years in prison and a $7,200 fine (10,000 Swiss francs) after she was found guilty of human trafficking.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2002/18394.htm (11137 words)

	Valais / Wallis canton (Switzerland) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		A seventh was added in 1628, and in that year France, Savoy and Switzerland all recognised Valais as a free republic.
		In severing Valais from Switzerland, the five Dixains of lower Valais were joined to it for a total of twelve stars in the flag (six in each field).
		Since the Act of Mediation of 1803 was a Napoleonic creation, it collapsed with him, and the Allies restored the pre-revolutionary Confederation in 1815 with the addition of three new cantons liberated from France.
	www.flagspot.net /flags/ch-vs.html (601 words)

	gov.ch - Communal level
		Switzerland has more than 3000 communes, including 109 cities (communes with more than 10'000 inhabitants).
		For the others communes, an update will be done as soon as you pass on new information to us.
		Homepage of Swiss communes' coat of arms and territory.
	www.gov.ch /govchen.nsf/fmCommunal (70 words)

	Adherents.com
		One of their best-known sects is the Amish, who separated from the mainstream in Switzerland around 1690 under Jacob Ammon, who insisted on a stricter observance of rules.
		PHILADELPHIA -- Amish communities and other isolated religious colonies are thriving by persuading their children to continue their largely preindustrial ways and remain with their churches, according to a new study.
		Hutterites, the nation's oldest rigidly communal Protestant order, persuade more than 95 percent of their young to remain in the large agricultural communes mostly in the northwestern United States and western Canada.
	www.adherents.com /Na/Na_23.html (3620 words)

	吴人社区 - 关心行政规划的人当读: COMMUNES IN FRANCE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The law distinguishes three structures with fiscal power: the Community of Communes (communauté de communes), aimed primarily at rural communes; the Community of Agglomeration (communauté d'agglomération), aimed at towns and middle-sized cities and their suburbs; and the Urban Community (communauté urbaine), aimed at larger cities and their suburbs.
		As of January 1, 2005, there were 2,510 such communities in metropolitan France (including 6 syndicats d'agglomération nouvelle, soon to disappear), made up of 32,223 communes (88.1% of all the communes of metropolitan France), and 50.9 million inhabitants, i.e.
		European France excluding Corsica), the communes furthest away from Paris are Coustouges (134 inhabitants) and Lamanère (44 inhabitants) at the Spanish border: both at 721 km.
	bbs.zanhei.com /printthread.php?t=834 (4633 words)

	A Virtual Travel to Switzerland - Suisse - Schweiz - Svizzera - Switzerland Tourism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Switzerland's independence and neutrality have long been honored by the major European powers and Switzerland was not involved in either of the two World Wars.
		The political and economic integration of Europe over the past half century, as well as Switzerland's role in many UN and international organizations, may be rendering obsolete the country's concern for neutrality.
		Switzerland straddles the central ranges of the Alps.
	www.nationsonline.org /oneworld/switzerland.htm (1019 words)

	Ticino canton (Switzerland)
		Less plausible theories include red for the the Swiss Confederation and blue for the sky over Italy, thus denoting "Italian Switzerland"; or that Ticino borrowed the colours from the arms of Paris and intended to honour the French Revolution or Napoleon.
		Least plausible is the idea that red stands for the liberal party and blue the conservatives, but neither party existed at the time the flag was adopted.
		In May 1803, two months after the creation of the canton, the Great Council resolved that the arms would be red and blue but did not specify their relative positions.
	www.fotw.net /Flags/ch-ti.html (514 words)

	Vaud canton (Switzerland) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The rest of Switzerland occasionally pokes fun at Vaud by deliberately misrepresenting their motto as "Liberté est partie" (freedom is departed).
		Vaud canton is the only one in Switzerland to have lettering on its blazon.
		It is worth reporting on all the aberrations of the "Constituante" (constituent assembly) which is a group of people working on the future constitution of Vaud canton.
	www.flagspot.com /flags/ch-vd.html (895 words)

	Vaud, Switzerland GenWeb
		As in France, the "commune" is a town together with the lands belonging to it - and in Vaud, some of these lands may not be physically connected, but somewhere up on a mountainside for summer grazing of cattle.
		You might recognize the flag of one of the communes as the basis for a family coat of arms that had you stumped.
		Commune Name to Parish Name Index: Since many small villages do not have their own church, making it difficult to know where their church records were kept, we have provided an index based on information compiled by the Cantonal Archives of Vaud.
	www.rootsweb.com /~chevaud (4984 words)

	Swiss news from swissinfo, the Swiss news platform (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		This is due to the city council deciding to extend a revolutionary pilot project until the end of this year, which was the first of its kind in Switzerland when introduced in 2003.
		Schutz said scattered communes across Switzerland had expressed interest in the scheme but only the cities of Bern, St Gallen and Basel had managed to either initiate similar pilot projects or were in the process of doing so.
		However, critics in French-speaking Switzerland have said that the Zurich project is not suitable for the region.
	www.swissinfo.org /sen/swissinfo.html?siteSect=111&sid=5503423 (526 words)

	Zürich canton (Switzerland)
		Zurich attained the rank of "Reichs-immediacy" in 1218, which makes it along with Schaffhausen the oldest sovereign state in the Holy Roman Empire which later became part of Switzerland.
		The Schwenkel very strongly resembles the flag of Schwyz or modern Switzerland, and other confederate states adopted it in the 15th century, but there is no documentation explaining its meaning for other states and no proof that it was a mark of the Confederacy.
		They normally show the national, cantonal or communal flag in their chiefs.
	www.hampshireflag.co.uk /world-flags/allflags/ch-zh.html (544 words)

	Savoy Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		'''Savoy''' (Italian languageItalian '''Savoia, ''' French languageFrench '''Savoie''') is a region of western Europe that emerged, along with the free communes of Switzerland, following the collapse of the Frankish Kingdom of Burgundy.
		Installed by Rudolph III, King of Burgundy, officially in 1003, the House of Savoy maintained independence as counts (see County of Savoy, ''ca'' 1000 to 1416) and then dukes (see Duchy of Savoy, 1416 to 1714), until Savoia was linked with the Kingdom of Sardinia, which included Piedmont (Italy)Piemonte in north-western Italy.
		This followed a referendumplebiscite in which the people were offered the option of joining France or joining the new ItalyItalian state; the disallowed options of either joining Switzerland (with which the region had close ties), or of regaining its independence, were the source of some opposition.
	www.echostatic.com /Savoy.html (653 words)

	THE CONFIDENCE BUILDING MEASURES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The children rappresent in most of the cases a first strong connection with the reality since they go to school and they need the social and economical support of the State.
		In our activities, we have been pointed out, by both of the communities, in Banovina that the issue of children is as a very big and important one not only from a material but also from a psycho- social point view.
		The principal aim of the project is to facilitate the integration of persons, in particular children, of both serbian and croatian of bosnian origin living in Sisak Moslavina County into croatian society and to promote the communication and understanding between these groups and the majority population.
	www.lda-sisak.hr /proe89.htm (694 words)

	Essaydirect.com: The Swiss Political System and Local Government - Term Paper. Publish your essay, term paper or thesis ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Switzerland is one of the smallest, oldest and most complex democratic federal states.
		Here, we will also introduce the issue of direct democracy in Switzerland, as we think it is a characteristic political element within the Swiss democracy and also plays an important role on the communal and local level.
		This will include a short summary about the development of the Swiss communes in history, the role of the communes given by the Swiss constitution, the structure and organization of communes and the responsibilities they have.
	www.essaydirect.com /preview/18563.html (525 words)

	PUBLIC PROCUREMENT MARKETS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Under this term there is a hidden treasure trove: all of the orders passed by the States, their public companies, the regional authorities and the communes.
		In entering the game of European liberalisation, Switzerland gives important advantages to Geneva industrial companies: with their leading-edge products, they are in a position to offer competitive solutions just as well to a neighbouring French department as to a British electricity distributor or to the Spanish government.
		Thanks to the publication of all offers exceeding a given threshold value, Geneva companies will be rapidly informed of tenders of a certain importance and may participate equally in the allocation of contracts.
	www.ge.ch /bilaterales/pages/marche_public-eng.htm (277 words)

	ch.ch : the public administration on-line: The Swiss tax system (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In other words, direct taxes are levied not only by the federal government, but also by the 26 cantons.
		The roughly 3,000 communes in Switzerland also levy direct taxes, generally on the basis of cantonal tax law.
		The communes levy taxes on the basis of cantonal legislation but set their own tax rates.
	www.ch.ch /urn:ch:en:ch:ch.07.12.01:01 (139 words)

	Assens - TheBestLinks.com - Switzerland, Square kilometre, Denmark, Vaud, ...
		Assens, Switzerland, Square kilometre, Denmark, Vaud, Funen (county), Communes...
		The municipality covers an area of 139 km², and has a total population of 10,718.
		Assens is a commune in Switzerland in the canton of Vaud, located in the district of Echallens.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Assens.html (110 words)

	Schwyz canton (Switzerland)
		There are two major legends regarding the addition of the cross, one that it was cut from a missal given to Count Rudo.
		Source: Angst (1992), "A Panoply of Colours: The Cantonal Banners of Switzerland and the Swiss National Flag"
		For Schwyz this type of flag adopts the position of the cross in the upper left corner as it is on the coat of arms, and therefore appears there in the flaggen.
	flagspot.net /flags/ch-sz.html (733 words)

	Communes of Ticino canton (Switzerland) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		L V G A on the Flag of Lugano in Switzerland means "La Vera Giustizia Antica"
		Gastone Cambin in the armorial of the communes of Tessin says that there has been a lot of strange conjectures about the meaning of the letters LUGA.
		It is obvious that they are simply the abbreviation of Lugano as it is proved by the primitive coat of arms of the parish, and which is confirmed by documents from 18 October 1208 and 14 November 1209, preserved once in the monastery of Sant'Amborgio of Milan but now undiscoverable.
	fotw.vexillum.com /flags/ch-ti-.html (167 words)

	ch.ch : the public administration on-line: Combined transport (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Tickets for hourly parking can be purchased at ticket machines or from the station ticket office, which also sells day, monthly and annual tickets to the holders of a General Abonnement, point-to-point season ticket or Community Pass.
		However, there is no guarantee of a free space in the parking lot.
		Approximately 800 vehicles are available at designated parking lots at 350 railway stations in Switzerland.
	www.ch.ch /urn:ch:en:ch:ch.05.02.08:01 (244 words)

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