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The canton of Bern, or Berne (German: Kanton Bern; French: canton de Berne; Romansh: Chantun Berna; Italian: Canton Berna), is one of the 26 cantons forming the Swiss Confederation. Its capital city, Bern , is also the de facto capital of Switzerland.
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Bern lies on the Swiss plateau in the canton of Bern,...
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The canton of Bern in the Restored Confederacy of 1815 even...
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Subdivisions of the canton of Bern. On 1 January 2010, the...
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The Swiss canton of Bern has about 947,000 people. The...
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Bern lies on the Swiss plateau in the canton of Bern, slightly west of the centre of Switzerland and 20 km (12 mi) north of the Bernese Alps. The countryside around Bern was formed by glaciers during the most recent ice age.
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The etymology of the name Bern is uncertain. Local legend has it that Berchtold V, Duke of Zähringen, the founder of the City of Bern, vowed to name the city after the first animal he met on the hunt; as this turned out to be a bear, the city had both its name and its heraldic beast. However, the connection between Bern and Bär (bear) is a folk ety...
The earliest evidence of human settlements in the Aare valley dates back to the Neolithic period. However, the earliest known settlement in the area of the city of Bern was on the Engehalbinsel to the north of the later city. This late La Tène culture settlement was founded around 300 to 200 BCE and fortified in the 2nd century BCE. It is thought t...
The history of the city of Bern proper begins when Berthold V, Duke of Zähringen founded the city in the late 12th century - 1191 being the official date. At that time, much of today's western Switzerland (then considered part of southern Burgundy) was under the authority of the house of Zähringen. The Zähringer leaders, although with no actual duc...
In 1293, king Adolf of Germany confirmed all privileges which Berne had acquired during the interregnum of 1291–1293. While these privileges were still granted by a king and did not amount to imperial immediacy de jure, the city after 1300 acted confidently as an imperial city, pursuing a policy of sovereign territorial expansion. In 1323 Bern ente...
Bern was occupied by French troops in 1798 during the French Revolutionary Wars, when it was stripped of parts of its territories. The Bernese Oberland was stripped away to become the Canton of Oberland. Within the new canton, historic borders and traditional rights were not considered. As there had been no previous separatist feeling amongst the c...
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1. See in general: Bern (municipality) in German, French and Italian in the online Historical Dictionary of Switzerland. 2. Peter Meyer (ed.), Berner — deine Geschichte}, Büchler Verlag, Bern 1981, ISBN 3-7170-0185-X 3. Rainer C. Schwinges (ed.), Berns mutige Zeit: Das 13. und 14. Jahrhundert neu entdeckt, Bern, Schulverlag blmv AG und Stämpfli Verlag AG, Bern 2003
"Berne", Switzerland, Together with Chamonix and the Italian Lakes (26th ed.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1922, OCLC 4248970, OL 23344482MThe Swiss canton of Bern has about 947,000 people. The canton is in west-central Switzerland and the city of Bern is its capital.
Subdivisions of the canton of Bern. On 1 January 2010, the 26 districts ( German: Amtsbezirke, French: districts) of the Canton of Bern were combined into 10 new precincts ( German: Verwaltungskreise, French: arrondissement administratif ). [ 1] They are grouped into five regions ( German: Verwaltungsregionen ).
Bern, canton, west-central Switzerland. It is the second most populous and second largest of the Swiss cantons; about 100 square miles (260 square km) are occupied by glaciers.
Der Kanton Bern ist ein traditionell ein mehrheitlich bürgerlicher Kanton mit der SVP als dominierender Kraft, wobei die Linke allerdings eine vergleichsweise starke Minderheit darstellt. Die Unterschiede in den politischen Kräftsverhlätnisse zwischen Stadt und Land sind ausserordentlich ausgeprägt.
