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  Switzerland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Switzerland borders Germany to the north, France to the west, Italy to the south, and Austria and Liechtenstein to the east.
Switzerland is a federation of relatively autonomous cantons, some of which have a history of confederacy that goes back more than 700 years, arguably putting them among the world's oldest surviving republics.
Switzerland comprises three basic topographical areas: the Swiss Alps, the Swiss plateau, and the Jura mountains.The Alps are a high mountain range running across the central-south of the country.
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 Switzerland - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Switzerland
Switzerland managed to maintain its neutrality in the Thirty Years' War (1618–48), and at the end of the war the Treaty of Westphalia (1648) recognized the final separation of Switzerland from the Habsburg Empire.
Switzerland participated in a non-military capacity by organizing Red Cross units, tracing the missing, and permitting incapacitated prisoners of war to be interned within its frontiers.
Switzerland in World War II In World War II the conquest of France by Germany in 1940 made Switzerland economically dependent upon the latter, and in August 1940 a new trade agreement between the two countries was signed.
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 Switzerland County, Indiana - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article treats the Indiana county called Switzerland, for other meanings see Switzerland (disambiguation).
Switzerland County is a county located in the U.S. state of Indiana.
It was named for the home country of many of the early settlers, Switzerland.
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 Switzerland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The Swiss Confederation or Switzerland is a landlocked federal state in Europe, with neighbours Germany, France, Italy, Austria and Liechtenstein.
Main article: History of Switzerland Switzerland is a federation of relatively autonomous cantons, some of which have a history of confederacy that goes back more than 700 years, arguably putting them among the world's oldest surviving republics.
Map of Switzerland (detailed) The northern, more populous part of the country is more open, but can still be fairly mountainous such as with the Jura Mountains, a smaller range in the northwest.
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 Switzerland - Enpsychlopedia
Switzerland is a confederation and has a long and strong tradition of political and military neutrality.
In 2002 Switzerland became a full member of the United Nations, leaving the Vatican as the last widely recognized state without full UN membership.
Switzerland features a system of government not seen at the national level on any other place on Earth: direct democracy, sometimes called half-direct democracy(this could, or could not be correct as theoretically, one could state that the people have full power over the law).
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 Aar - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
The Aar (German: Aare) is the longest river that both rises and ends entirely within Switzerland.
The lake absorbs huge amounts of eroded gravel and snowmelt that the river brings from the Alps, and the former swamps have become fruitful plains: they are known as the "vegetable garden of Switzerland".
It now turns due north, and soon becomes itself an affluent of the Rhine, which it surpasses in volume when the two rivers unite at Coblenz (Switzerland), opposite Waldshut, Germany.
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 Aar - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The Aar (in German Aare) is the greatest river which both rises and ends entirely within Switzerland.
The lake swallows the huge amounts of gravel and melted snow the river brings from the Alps and the former swamps have become fruitful plains, the vegetable garden of Switzerland.
It now turns due north, and soon becomes itself an affluent of the Rhine (left), which it surpasses in volume when they unite at Coblenz (Switzerland), opposite Waldshut (Germany).
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 Aargau   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
They were closed by the government in 1841, which was one of the causes of the civil war called the "Sonderbund War," in 1847 in Switzerland.
The lands of the canton of Aargau are of the most fertile in Switzerland.
Dairy farming, crops and fruits are of the principal economic activities in the canton.
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 Swiss (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Swiss German, the dialects of Alemannic German spoken in parts of Switzerland
abbreviation for Swiss made (Made in Switzerland), as e.g.
This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
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]] Lucerne (German: ''Luzern'') is a city in Central Switzerland with a population of 60,274 (December 31 2003), capital of the canton of Lucerne.
The lake is a complicated shape, with bends and arms reaching from the city of Lucerne into the mountains.
Many of the oldest communities of Switzerland are along the shore, including Küssnacht, Weggis, Vitznau, Gersau, Brunnen, Altdorf, Buochs, and Treib.
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This last assault happened on the night of 11-12 December 1602 and is celebrated yearly in the Old Town with numerous demonstrations and a parade of horses, cannons and armed men in period costumes.
The Canton has only a 4.5 km border with the rest of Switzerland; out of a total of 107.5 km of borders, the remaining 103 are shared with France, with the Départment de l'Ain to the North and the Département de la Haute-Savoie to the South.
The altitude of Geneva is 373.6 m, and corresponds to the altitude of the largest of the Pierres du Niton, two large rocks emerging from the lake which date from the last ice age.
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 Geneva
For other articles subjects named Geneva, see Geneva (disambiguation).
Geneva (French: Genève, German: Genf, Italian: Ginevra),Spanish: Ginebra), is the second-most populous city in Switzerland (after Zurich), located where Lake Geneva (French: Lac de Genève or Lac Léman) empties into the Rhone River.
"Geneva" is also the name of the westernmost canton of Switzerland, surrounded on almost all sides by France and centered around the city of Geneva.
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Paul Thomas Mann (June 6, 1875 – August 12, 1955) was a German novelist, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and Nobel Prize laureate, lauded principally for a series of highly symbolic and often ironic epic novels and mid-length stories, noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and intellectual.
Mann emigrated from Nazi Germany to Küsnacht near Zürich, Switzerland, in 1933, then to the United States in 1939, where he taught at Princeton University, along with such other émigrés as Albert Einstein.
In 1933 when the Nazis came to power, Mann and his wife were vacationing in Switzerland.
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 Bern - Gurupedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Swiss German Bärn [bæ:rn], German Bern [bE6n, bERn], French Berne [bERn], Italian and Romansh Berna ['bErna]) is the capital of Switzerland.
Bern also functions as the capital of Bern canton, the second most populous of Switzerland's 26 cantons.
Bern lies in the midlands of the Canton of Bern, roughly in the middle of Switzerland.
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 Berne Biography,info
Bern lies in the Swiss plateau part of the Canton of Bern, somewhat west of the center of Switzerland.
As of 2005, the representatives of the Social Democratic Party and of the three Green factions hold a majority in both councils (3 to 2 and 43 to 37, respectively).
As is customary in Switzerland, movies are generally shown in their original language (e.g., English) with subtitling in German and French.
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 Martial law - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
The declaration of martial law was initially well-received, but became unpopular as excesses and human rights abuses by the military emerged.Torture was used in extracting information to their enemies
There are no provisions for martial law as such in Switzerland.
Under the Army Law of 1995 [1], the Army can be called upon by cantonal (state) authorities for assistance (Assistenzdienst).
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 Swiss (disambiguation) - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Over the course of human history many different groups have left their mark on Switzerland, including ancient Etruscans, Celts, Romans, and Germanic...
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 Help.com - alps   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The Alps (German: Alpen; French: Alpes; Italian: Alpi; Slovenian: Alpe) is the name for one of the great mountain range systems of Europe, stretching from Austria and Slovenia in the east, through Italy, Switzerland, Liechtenstein and Germany to France in the west.
The word "Alps" was taken via French from Latin Alpes (meaning "the Alps"), which may be influenced by the Latin words albus (white) or altus (high), or a Celtic word.
The Western Alps are higher, but their central chain is shorter and curved; they are located in Italy, France and Switzerland.
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Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) is a core task in natural language processing, and is considered essential for major applications like text understanding, common sense reasoning, and machine translation.
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France, including French Overseas Departments, Communities and Territories; Canada; Belgium; Switzerland; many Western and Central African nations; Haiti; and the U.S. states of Louisiana and Maine.
All of the other provinces do make some effort to accommodate the needs of their francophone citizens, although the level and quality of French-language service varies significantly from province to province.
It is spoken in the part of Switzerland called Romandy.
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Situated in the Canton of Zurich, it is one of the larger towns along the left flank of the Lake of Zurich.
Horgen is also the type-site of Switzerland's middle Neolithic archaeological culture.
The settlement there produced examples of a type of crude pottery with parallels to the Seine-Oise-Marne culture of northern France.
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Edelweiss is a protected plant in many countries, including Switzerland, Slovenia (since 1898) and Romania (since 1933).
It usually grows in inaccessible places, which is why it is associated in Slovenia with mountaineering.
Its white colour is considered in Switzerland a symbol of purity and due to its beauty, it got its Romanian name, floarea reginei (Queen's flower).
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It is the capital of the Canton of Geneva.
For the people of Geneva the Escalade is the symbolof their independence.
The country has a strong tradition of political and military neutrality, but also of international co-operation, asit is home to many international organisations.
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 FDP - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
in Switzerland: Freisinnig-Demokratische Partei, see Freethinking Democratic Party of Switzerland and Politics of Switzerland.
This is a disambiguation page; that is, one that points to other pages that might otherwise have the same name.
If you followed a link here, you might want to go back and fix that link to point to the appropriate specific page.
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 Zrich
(German pronunciation: IPA: [Л€tsyrЙЄГ§]; usual English spelling: Zurich) is the largest city in Switzerland (population: 366,145 in 2004; population of urban area: 1,091,732) and capital of the canton of ZГјrich.
The city is Switzerland's main commercial centre and home to the country's largest airport.
It is also home of the Cabaret Voltaire where the Dada movement began in 1916.
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 Wikinfo | Geneva   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Geneva (French: Genève, German: Genf, Italian: Ginevra, Spanish: Ginebra) is the second-most populous city in Switzerland (after Zürich), located where Lake Geneva (French: Lac de Genève or Lac Léman) empties into the Rhône River.
The official name of this canton is République et Canton de Genève.
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