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Blumenstein Blumenstein is a municipality in the administrative district of Thun in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.
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Cantons of Switzerland The 26 cantons of Switzerland (German: "Kanton" , French: "canton" , Italian: "cantone" , Romansh: "chantun" ) are the member states of the Swiss Confederation. The nucleus of the Swiss Confederacy in the form of the first three confederate allies used to be referred to as the Waldstätte. Two further major steps in the development of the Swiss cantonal system are referred to by the terms "Acht Alten Orte" ("confederation of eight"; between 1353 and 1481) and "Dreizehn Alten Orte" ("Thirteen-Canton Confederation", during 1513–1798); they were important intermediate periods of the Ancient Swiss Confederacy.
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Biel (disambiguation) Biel/Bienne is the name of city in the canton of Berne, Switzerland.
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Espace Mittelland Espace Mittelland is a region of Switzerland, encompassing the cantons of Bern, Fribourg, Jura, Neuchâtel and Solothurn. It is one of the NUTS-2 .
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Canton of Uri The canton of Uri (German: Kanton    ) is one of the 26 cantons of Switzerland and a founding member of the Swiss Confederation. It is located in Central Switzerland. The canton's territory covers the valley of the Reuss between the St. Gotthard Pass and Lake Lucerne. The official language of Uri is (the Swiss variety of Standard) German, but the main spoken language is the Alemannic Swiss German dialect called . Uri was the only canton where the children in school had to learn Italian as their first foreign language. But in the school year of 2005/2006 this was changed to English as in most other cantons. The population is about 35,000 of which 3,046 (or 8.7%) are foreigners. The legendary William Tell is said to have hailed from Uri. The historical landmark Rütli lies within the canton of Uri.
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Canton of Fricktal Fricktal was a canton of the Helvetic Republic from February 1802 to February 1803, consisting of that part of the Breisgau (in Habsburg Further Austria) south of the Rhine ("the Fricktal"). Now, the territories of Fricktal form the districts of Rheinfelden and Laufenburg in the canton of Aargau.
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Luzerner Kantonalbank Luzerner Kantonalbank is the cantonal bank and the dominant retail banking group in the Swiss canton of Lucerne, with a market share of 50-60%. It is main focus on financing small businesses and personal mortgages in the local economy, the bank has avoided some of the issues facing its larger peers in Switzerland and non-performing loans remain at negligible levels.
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Swiss Federal Council election, 2015 An election for all seven members of the Federal Council, the government of Switzerland, was held on 9 December 2015, following the federal election on 19 October 2015.
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Zürich District Zürich District is a district (German: "Bezirk" ) of the Swiss canton of Zürich in Switzerland.
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Christian Catholic Church of Switzerland The Christian Catholic Church of Switzerland is the Swiss member church of the Union of Utrecht of Old Catholic Churches. The Union of Utrecht was founded by some Jansenists, and expanded with an influx of discontented Roman Catholics following their disappointment with the First Vatican Council (1869-1870). The church is a national Swiss church and recognised (as are the Evangelical Reformed and the Roman Catholic churches) in 11 cantons by the government. Since 1874, the University of Bern has had its own Christian Catholic theological faculty, which is now one part (as the Christian Catholic section) of the Faculty of Theology. The strongest concentration of Christian Catholics lies in the cantons of Solothurn, Aargau, Zurich and Geneva.
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Grand Council of Valais The Grand Council of Valais (French: "Grand Conseil de Valais" ) is the legislature of the canton of Valais, in Switzerland. Valais has a unicameral legislature. The Grand Council has 130 seats, with members elected every four years.
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Christian Democrats/EVP/glp Group The Christian Democrats/EVP/glp Group (German: "Fraktion CVP/EVP/glp" , French: "Groupe PDC-PEV-PVL" , Italian: "PPD-PEV-glp" ), abbreviated to CEg, was a centrist parliamentary group of three parties in Switzerland's federal legislature, the Federal Assembly, between 2007 and 2011.
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Imboden Region Imboden Region is one of the eleven administrative districts in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland. It had an area of 203.80 km2 and a population of (as of 31 December 2016 ). . It was created on 1 January 2017 as part of a reorganization of the Canton.
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Brenzikofen Brenzikofen is a municipality in the Bern-Mittelland administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.
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Basel-Landschaft The canton of Basel-Landschaft (German:    , English: Basel-Country ; informally: "Baselland"/"Baselbiet", French: "Bâle-Campagne" ), is one of the 26 cantons of Switzerland. The capital is Liestal. It shares borders with the cantons of Basel-Stadt, Solothurn, Jura and Aargau, and with the French région of Alsace and the German state of Baden-Württemberg.
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University of Zurich The University of Zurich (UZH, German: "Universität Zürich" ), located in the city of Zürich, is the largest university in Switzerland, with over 26,000 students. It was founded in 1833 from the existing colleges of theology, law, medicine and a new faculty of philosophy.
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Swiss Football Association The Swiss Football Association (German: "Schweizerischer Fussballverband" , French: "Association Suisse de Football" , Italian: "Associazione Svizzera di Calcio" ) is the governing body of football in Switzerland. It organizes the football league, the Swiss Football League and the Switzerland national football team. It is based in Bern.
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Old City (Bern) The Old City (German: "Altstadt" ) is the medieval city center of Bern, Switzerland. Built on a narrow hill surrounded on three sides by the river Aare, its compact layout has remained essentially unchanged since its construction during the twelfth to the fifteenth century. Despite a major fire in 1405, after which much of the city was rebuilt in sandstone, and substantial construction efforts in the eighteenth century, Bern's old city has retained its medieval character.
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Cantonal Council of Zürich The Cantonal Council of Zürich (German: "Züricher Kantonsrat" ) is the legislature of the canton of Zürich, in Switzerland. Zürich has a unicameral legislature. The Cantonal Council has 180 seats, with members elected every four years.
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Büren District Büren District was a district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland, with its capital at Büren an der Aare. It contained 14 municipalities in an area of 88 km²:
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Conservative Democratic Party of Switzerland The Conservative Democratic Party of Switzerland (German: "Bürgerlich-Demokratische Partei Schweiz" , BDP; French: "Parti bourgeois démocratique suisse" , PBD; Italian: "Partito Borghese Democratico Svizzero" , PBD; Romansh: "" , PBD; all translations mean literally "Citizens' Democratic Party of Switzerland") is a conservative political party in Switzerland. Since the 2015 General election, the BDP has seven members in the National Council and one in the Council of States.
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Valais The canton of Valais (] ; German: "Wallis" , ] ) is one of the 26 cantons of Switzerland, situated in the southwestern part of the country, around the valley of the Rhône from its headwaters to Lake Geneva, separating the Pennine Alps from the Bernese Alps. The canton is simultaneously one of the driest regions of Switzerland in its central Rhône valley and among the wettest, having large amounts of snow and rain up on the highest peaks found in Switzerland. The canton of Valais is widely known for the Matterhorn and resort towns such as Crans-Montana, Saas Fee and Zermatt. It is composed of 13 districts (hence the 13 stars on the flag) and its capital is Sion.