Saint-Maurice is a city in the Swiss canton of Valais and the capital of the district of Saint-Maurice. On 1 January 2013, the former municipality of Mex...
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Saint Maurice, Agaunum (French: Abbaye de Saint-Maurice d'Agaune or Saint-Maurice-en-Valais) is a Swiss monastery of canons regular in Saint-Maurice,...
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Valais (UK: /ˈvæleɪ/ VAL-ay, US: /væˈleɪ/ val-AY, French: [valɛ] ), more formally, the Canton of Valais, is one of the 26 cantons forming the Swiss Confederation...
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Particularly notable among these are the Church and Abbey of Saint-Maurice-en-Valais, the Church of Saint Moritz in the Engadin, and the Monastery Chapel of Einsiedeln...
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and du Scex/Saint-Maurice". Valais/Wallis Promotion. Retrieved 3 January 2011. "Fort Scex: Plan". Forteresse Historique de Saint-Maurice. Retrieved 3...
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Grotte aux Fées (Switzerland) (category Fortress Saint-Maurice)
Saint-Maurice. Retrieved 3 January 2011. "Fortresses of Cindey and du Scex/Saint-Maurice". Valais/Wallis Promotion. Retrieved 3 January 2011. Wikimedia Commons has...
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Valais St. Maurice's Abbey Saint-Maurice, Collonge-Bellerive, a locality in the municipality Collonge-Bellerive Saint Maurice, Indiana, a town Saint Maurice...
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Nant de Drance Hydropower Plant (category Buildings and structures in Valais)
power station in the canton of Valais in Switzerland. It is within the municipality of Finhaut, district of Saint-Maurice and about 14 km (8.7 mi) southwest...
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Roman Catholic Diocese of Sion (category Valais)
entertained Leo IX at Saint-Maurice in 1049. About 999, the last king of Upper Burgundy, Rudolph III, granted the Countship of Valais to Bishop Hugo (998-1017);...
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Valais, by the publishing company Éditions Le Nouvelliste SA. A regional newspaper for the Valais canton, it was established in 1903 in Saint-Maurice...
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Maurice Zermatten (22 October 1910, in Saint-Martin, Valais – 11 February 2001, in Sion) was a French-speaking Swiss writer. He was born in Saint-Martin...
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Fort du Scex (category Fortress Saint-Maurice)
2011. Retrieved 6 January 2011. "Fortresses of Cindey and du Scex/Saint-Maurice". Valais/Wallis Promotion. Retrieved 3 January 2011. Forts de Scex and Cindey...
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Orsières Port-Valais Randa Raron Riddes Ried-Brig Riederalp Saas-Almagell Saas-Balen Saas-Fee Saas-Grund Saillon Saint-Gingolph Saint-Léonard Saint-Martin (VS)...
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kingdom of Burgundy, of which the abbey of Saint-Maurice d'Agaune was the religious center. The county of Valais became the property of the bishop in 999...
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Fort de Cindey (category Fortress Saint-Maurice)
Forteresse Historique de Saint-Maurice. Retrieved 5 January 2011. "Fortresses of Cindey and du Scex/Saint-Maurice". Valais/Wallis Promotion. Retrieved...
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districts of the Lower Valais were known as "banners" (vexilla): Conthey, Ardon, Saillon, Martigny, Entremont, Saint-Maurice (with three separate lordships...
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District, Östlich Raron District. Valais is divided into 13 districts, represented by the 13 stars on the coat of arms of Valais: Brig with capital Brig-Glis...
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along with Maurice, the other staff officers and 6,600 soldiers, is said to have been martyred at the Swiss town of Saint Maurice-en-Valais, then called...
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January 11, 1853, the Valais government granted the concession for the Bouveret - Sion railway. On June 30, 1858, the Saint-Maurice tunnel was pierced....
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Sion, Switzerland (redirect from Sion (Valais))
the Upper Valais broke away from the rest of the canton. Sion was chosen as the capital of the Valais, while the breakaway Upper Valais chose Sierre...
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Simplon (department) (category History of Valais)
and became the canton of Valais. The department was created by Article 2 of the decree of 12 November 1810, reuniting the Valais to the French Empire. This...
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Prieuré de Saint-Romain) (dissolved), at Ayent (Valais): Benedictine monks (before 1107-1620) Baulmes Priory (Prieuré de Baulmes, Prieuré Saint-Marie, Prieuré...
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Rhône (category Valais–Vaud border)
Rhône include: Oberwald (Valais) Brig (Valais) Visp (Valais) Leuk (Valais) Sierre (Valais) Sion (Valais) St. Maurice (Valais) see Lake Geneva for a list...
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Saint-Maurice Castle is a castle in the municipality of Saint-Maurice of the Canton of Valais in Switzerland. It is a Swiss heritage site of national...
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External Valais Moûtiers unit Roc de l'Enfer unit Petit St. Bernard unit Internal Valais Versoyen unit Large outcrops of the Couches de Saint Christophe...
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List of fortifications in Switzerland (section Valais)
Pass in Valais St. Gotthard, Gotthard Fortress Fortress St. Luzisteig in Graubünden, Museum Fortress Saint-Maurice, Fortress complex in the Valais, later...
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St Bernard Pass (redirect from Saint Bernard Passes)
St Bernard Pass may refer to: Great St Bernard Pass crosses the Valais Alps between Martigny, Switzerland and Aosta, Italy Little St Bernard Pass lies...
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Agaunum (category History of Valais)
in Roman Switzerland, predecessor of the modern city of Saint-Maurice in the canton of Valais, southwestern Switzerland. It was used by the Roman Empire...
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Great St Bernard Hospice (redirect from Hospice du Grand-Saint-Bernard)
municipality of Bourg-Saint-Pierre in the Swiss canton of Valais. The first hospice or monastery was built in the 9th century at Bourg-Saint-Pierre, which was...
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first railway line in the canton of Valais. A 691 metre-long tunnel had to be built on the approach to Saint-Maurice which is the only major structure of...
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