Mattertal, part of the district of Visp in the canton of Valais in Switzerland. St. Niklaus is first mentioned in 1233 as chousun. In 1272 it was mentioned...
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Feldbrunnen-St. Niklaus is a municipality in the district of Lebern in the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland. Feldbrunnen-St. Niklaus is first mentioned...
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Niklaus Emil Wirth (15 February 1934 – 1 January 2024) was a Swiss computer scientist. He designed several programming languages, including Pascal, and...
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St. Niklaus railway station (French: Gare de St. Niklaus, German: Bahnhof St. Niklaus) is a railway station in the municipality of St. Niklaus, in the...
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Peter Sarbach (category Swiss mountain climbers)
Peter Sarbach (1844 – 1930) was born in St. Niklaus, Switzerland, near the village of Zermatt; which is a historic village in the Shadow of the Matterhorn...
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Nicholas of Flüe (redirect from Niklaus von Flüe)
Nicholas of Flüe (German: Niklaus von Flüe; 1417 – 21 March 1487) was a Swiss hermit and ascetic who is the patron saint of Switzerland. He is sometimes invoked...
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Karlstadt and Johannes Oecolampadius), Bern (Berchtold Haller and Niklaus Manuel), and St. Gallen (Joachim Vadian). One canton, Appenzell, was officially...
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Niklaus may refer to: In Swiss geography: Feldbrunnen-St. Niklaus St. Niklaus People with the given name or surname Niklaus: Niklaus (name) Jack Nicklaus...
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St. Gallen is a Swiss city and the capital of the canton of St. Gallen. It evolved from the hermitage of Saint Gall, founded in the 7th century. Today...
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national ensign, it was first used during the Napoleonic Wars by general Niklaus Franz von Bachmann, and as regimental flag of all cantonal troops from...
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Niklaus Manuel Deutsch (Niklaus Manuel, c. 1484 – 28 April 1530), of Bern, was a Swiss artist, writer, mercenary and Reformed politician. Niklaus was...
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Niklaus Leodegar Franz Ignaz von Bachmann (Näfels, 27 March 1740 – Näfels, 11 February 1831) was a Swiss general who fought in the Napoleonic Wars. Bachmann...
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Niklaus Riggenbach (21 May 1817 – 25 July 1899) was an Alsatian-born Swiss mechanic, railway engineer, politician and inventor of the rack railway system...
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Haller and Niklaus Manuel), St. Gallen,(Joachim Vadian), to cities in southern Germany and via Alsace (Martin Bucer) to France. Since 1920, the Swiss Reformed...
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Bahnhof Herbriggen) is a railway station in the municipality of St. Niklaus, in the Swiss canton of Valais. It is an intermediate stop on the 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in)...
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Bern (redirect from Bern, Switzerland)
Bern (Swiss Standard German: [bɛrn] , German: [bɛʁn]), or Berne (French: [bɛʁn] ), is the de facto capital of Switzerland, referred to as the "federal...
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quotations related to Niklaus Pfluger. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Niklaus Pfluger. English information on the Society of St. Pius X of which Father...
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Grächen (redirect from Grächen, Switzerland)
canton of Valais in Switzerland. The village is situated at an altitude of 1,620 meters (5,310 ft) on a terrace above St. Niklaus in the Mattertal, north...
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passage of allied troops across Swiss territory (see the minor campaigns of 1815). Swiss troops under General Niklaus Franz von Bachmann advanced to the...
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leader Niklaus Leuenberger, the so-called peace on the Murifeld. The peasant armies retreated. The Tagsatzung, the federal council of the Old Swiss Confederacy...
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for Joseph (Josef) Pollinger (1873–1943), an alpine guide from St. Niklaus, Switzerland, who visited Canada in 1901 with Whymper. During the short time...
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Anthea Cooper Cathy Drury 3–6, 6–3, 6–4 Winner 16. 30 August 1981 St. Niklaus, Switzerland Clay Monique Van Haver Kate Glancy Karen Gulley 6–2, 7–6 Runner-up...
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Solothurn, St. Gallen, Thun, Trimbach, Uster, Vevey, Wädenswil, Wil, Winterthur, Yverdon, Zofingen, Zug, Zürich List of members of the Swiss Council of...
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German, French and Italian in the online Historical Dictionary of Switzerland. Niklaus Flüeler; Roland Gfeller-Corthésy (1975). Die Schweiz vom Bau der...
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Pennine Alps, connecting Gruben/Meiden and St. Niklaus (Mattertal) in the canton of Valais in Switzerland. The path has been recently equipped and is...
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The President of the National Council of Switzerland (German: Nationalratspräsident; French: Président du Conseil national, Italian: Presidente del Consiglio...
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Bernoulli family (category Pages with Swiss Standard German IPA)
trader, also named Jacob, moved to Basel, Switzerland in 1620, and was granted citizenship in 1622. His son, Niklaus Bernoulli [de] (Nicolaus, 1623–1708),...
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Niklaus Meienberg (11 May 1940 – 22 September 1993) was a Swiss writer and investigative journalist. Meienberg lived in Zürich and published 14 books...
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Koppigen (redirect from Koppigen, Switzerland)
Öschberg/Öschfurt and St. Niklaus were used as resting places along the east–west road. St. Niklaus was named after the chapel of St. Niklaus that was built...
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The early modern history of the Old Swiss Confederacy (Eidgenossenschaft, also known as the "Swiss Republic" or Republica Helvetiorum) and its constituent...
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