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  • takes the orphaned Heidi to live with her formidable grandfather in the Swiss Alps. Dete has found a promising job in Frankfurt, but cannot leave while still...
    42 KB (5,237 words) - 16:21, 28 March 2024
  • and then they were aided by the Swiss League from 1962, for the reason that the majority of the Alps are in Switzerland. This competition ran from 1960...
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    The Alps form part of a Cenozoic orogenic belt of mountain chains, called the Alpide belt, that stretches through southern Europe and Asia from the Atlantic...
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    Adlerhorn (category Pennine Alps)
    The Adlerhorn is a mountain of the Swiss Pennine Alps, located east of Zermatt in the canton of Valais. It lies west of the Strahlhorn. Retrieved from...
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    10,128 Swiss men (34.1% of the population) and 4,089 (13.8%) non-Swiss men. There were 11,642 Swiss women (39.2%) and 3,859 (13.0%) non-Swiss women. Of...
    67 KB (7,235 words) - 07:25, 13 April 2024
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    Ober Gabelhorn (category Mountains of the Alps)
    is a mountain in the Pennine Alps in Switzerland, located between Zermatt and Zinal. The Ober Gabelhorn lies in the Swiss canton of Valais at the southern...
    6 KB (743 words) - 03:25, 21 October 2021
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    (in German, French, and Italian). Neuchâtel, Switzerland: Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), Swiss Confederation. 19 September 2019. 1155-1500. Retrieved...
    107 KB (2,960 words) - 01:30, 9 April 2024
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    Valais (category Switzerland articles needing expert attention)
    within the Alps and is shut off from both northern and southern plains. Valais is separated from the Swiss Plateau to the north by the Bernese Alps and from...
    52 KB (5,581 words) - 08:50, 1 April 2024
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    Konkordia Hut (category Mountain huts in the Alps)
    convergence of several glaciers in the great Aletsch Glacier system of the Bernese Alps. It is located at a height of 2,850 metres above sea level, at the foot of...
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    Alphubel (category Mountains of the Alps)
    The Alphubel (4,206 m) is a mountain of the Swiss Pennine Alps, located between the valleys of Zermatt and Saas in the canton of Valais. It is part of...
    6 KB (657 words) - 05:47, 27 June 2023
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    Zinalrothorn (category Mountains of the Alps)
    The Zinalrothorn (4,221 m) is a mountain in the Pennine Alps in Switzerland. Its name comes from the village of Zinal lying on the north side and from...
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    Rimpfischhorn (category Mountains of the Alps)
    The Rimpfischhorn (4,199 m) is a mountain in the Pennine Alps of Switzerland. The first ascent of the mountain was by Leslie Stephen and Robert Living...
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  • Chur, Switzerland)
    in the Eastern Alps, goes back as far as the Pfyn culture (3900-3500 BC), making Chur one of the oldest settlements in Switzerland. Remains and objects...
    55 KB (5,415 words) - 19:07, 29 March 2024
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    Allalinhorn (category Mountains of the Alps)
    The Allalinhorn (4,027 m (13,212 ft)) is a mountain in the Pennine Alps in Switzerland. It lies between Zermatt and Saas-Fee in the canton of Valais, and...
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    Agassizhorn (category Bernese Alps)
    The Agassizhorn is a mountain of the Bernese Alps in Switzerland. It lies just north-west of the Finsteraarhorn, the main summit of the range. The Agassizhorn...
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  • Thumbnail for Balfrin (category Mountains of the Alps)
    The Balfrin is a mountain of the Swiss Pennine Alps, located north of the Dom in the canton of Valais. It belongs to the Mischabel massif, which lies between...
    2 KB (101 words) - 15:01, 23 September 2023
  • and André Mach, eds. Switzerland in Europe: Continuity and change in the Swiss political economy (Taylor & Francis, 2011). Swiss Federal Statistical Office...
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