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Ferlens
Ferlens is a former municipality in the district of Lavaux-Oron in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. On 1 July 2016 the former municipalities of Ferlens, Carrouge and Mézières merged into the new municipality of Jorat-Mézières. History Ferlens is first mentioned around 1147-50 as ''Ferlens''. Geography Ferlens has an area, , of . Of this area, or 69.6% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 22.6% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 7.4% is settled (buildings or roads).Swiss Federal Statistical Office-Land Use Statistics 2009 data accessed 25 March 2010 Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 3.7% and transportation infrastructure made up 3.2%. Out of the forested land, all of the forested land area is covered with heav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carrouge VD
Carrouge () is a former municipality in the district of Broye-Vully in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. On 1 July 2016 the former municipalities of Carrouge, Ferlens and Mézières merged into the new municipality of Jorat-Mézières. History Carrouge is first mentioned in 1255 as ''Carrogium''. Geography Carrouge has an area, , of . Of this area, or 70.7% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 19.7% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 9.4% is settled (buildings or roads).Swiss Federal Statistical Office-Land Use Statistics 2009 data accessed 25 March 2010 Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 5.2% and transportation infrastructure made up 3.1%. Out of the forested land, 17.9% of the total land area is heavily forested an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mézières, Vaud
Mézières is a former municipality in the district of Lavaux-Oron in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. On 1 July 2016, the former municipalities of Mézières, Carrouge, and Ferlens merged into the new municipality of Jorat-Mézières. History Mézières is first mentioned in 1228 as ''Messeretes''. Geography Mézières has an area, , of . Of this area, or 61.2% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 23.3% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 16.1% is settled (buildings or roads).Swiss Federal Statistical Office-Land Use Statistics 2009 data accessed 25 March 2010 Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 8.6% and transportation infrastructure made up 5.7%. Out of the forested land, 19.3% of the total land area is heavily forest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carrouge
Carrouge () is a former municipality in the district of Broye-Vully in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. On 1 July 2016 the former municipalities of Carrouge, Ferlens and Mézières merged into the new municipality of Jorat-Mézières. History Carrouge is first mentioned in 1255 as ''Carrogium''. Geography Carrouge has an area, , of . Of this area, or 70.7% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 19.7% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 9.4% is settled (buildings or roads).Swiss Federal Statistical Office-Land Use Statistics 2009 data accessed 25 March 2010 Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 5.2% and transportation infrastructure made up 3.1%. Out of the forested land, 17.9% of the total land area is heavily forested ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lavaux-Oron District
Lavaux-Oron District is a district in the canton of Vaud. Geography Lavaux-Oron has an area, , of . Of this area, or 59.4% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 23.5% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 16.3% is settled (buildings or roads) and or 0.9% is unproductive land. 2009 data accessed 25 March 2010 Demographics Lavaux-Oron has a population () of . In there were 419 live births to Swiss citizens and 127 births to non-Swiss citizens, and in same time span there were 463 deaths of Swiss citizens and 38 non-Swiss citizen deaths. Ignoring immigration and emigration, the population of Swiss citizens decreased by 44 while the foreign population increased by 89. There were 16 Swiss men and 6 Swiss women who emigrated from Switzerland. At the same time, there were 391 non- ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Servion
Servion () is a municipality in the district of Lavaux-Oron in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. The municipality of Les Cullayes merged on 1 January 2012 into Servion.Amtliches Gemeindeverzeichnis der Schweiz published by the Swiss Federal Statistical Office accessed 21 December 2011 History Servion is first mentioned in 1147 as ''Salvion'' and as ''Salviun''.Geography Servion has an area, , of . Of this area, or 60.3% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 23.5% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 15.9% is settled (buildings or roads).[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oron District
Oron District was one of the districts of the Canton of Vaud, Switzerland. Mergers and name changes * On 1 January 2003 the former municipality of La Rogivue merged into the municipality of Maracon. * On 1 September 2006 the municipalities of Bussigny-sur-Oron, Châtillens, Chesalles-sur-Oron, Les Cullayes, Ecoteaux, Essertes, Ferlens, Maracon, Mézières, Montpreveyres, Oron-la-Ville, Oron-le-Châtel, Palézieux, Servion, Les Tavernes, Les Thioleyres, and Vuibroye came from the District d'Oron to join the Lavaux-Oron District. * On 1 September 2006 the municipalities of Carrouge, Corcelles-le-Jorat, Ropraz, and Vulliens came from the District d'Oron to join the Broye-Vully District. * On 1 September 2006 the municipality of Peney-le-Jorat came from the District d'Oron to join the Gros-de-Vaud District. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jorat-Mézières
Jorat-Mézières is a municipality in the district of Lavaux-Oron in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. On 1 July 2016 the former municipalities of Mézières (VD), Ferlens (VD) and Carrouge (VD) Carrouge () is a former municipality in the district of Broye-Vully in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. On 1 July 2016 the former municipalities of Carrouge, Ferlens and Mézières merged into the new municipality of Jorat-Mézières. Histo ... merged to form the new municipality of Jorat-Mézières. Geography After the 2016 merger Jorat-Mézières had an area of . Demographics Jorat-Mézières has a population () of . Historic Population The historical population is given in the following chart: Colors= id:lightgrey value:gray(0.9) id:darkgrey value:gray(0.8) ImageSize = width:1100 height:500 PlotArea = height:350 left:100 bottom:90 right:100 Legend = columns:3 left:220 top:70 columnwidth:160 AlignBars = justify DateFormat = x.y Period = from:0 till:2100 Tim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vulliens
Vulliens is a municipality in the district of Broye-Vully in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. The municipality has a mayor with Daniel Schorderet since 2002 and four municipal councillors. Geography Vulliens has an area, , of . Of this area, or 67.3% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 27.3% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 5.4% is settled (buildings or roads), or 1.1% is either rivers or lakes.Swiss Federal Statistical Office-Land Use Statistics 2009 data Retrieved 25 March 2010 Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 2.1% and transportation infrastructure made up 3.3%. Out of the forested land, 26.2% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.1% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Auboranges
Auboranges ( frp, Ôborenjos, locally ) is a municipality in the district of Glâne in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland. History Auboranges is first mentioned in 1155 as ''Alburengens''. Geography Auboranges has an area, , of . Of this area, or 80.8% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 10.4% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 8.3% is settled (buildings or roads).Swiss Federal Statistical Office-Land Use Statistics 2009 data accessed 25 March 2010 Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 3.6% and transportation infrastructure made up 4.7%. Out of the forested land, all of the forested land area is covered with heavy forests. Of the agricultural land, 43.5% is used for growing crops and 36.8% is pastures. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jorat (Switzerland)
The Jorat (German: "der Jurten") is the area of the Canton of Vaud (Switzerland) located between the Gros-de-Vaud, West and the Broye, East. Geography It is a hill range that stretches from above Lausanne at the South and stretches toward Payerne at the North. Every stretch of land above 700 meters of altitude AMSL constitutes the mainly forest area called "Jorat". The culminating point is the Montagne du Château (929 meters). Villages Strictly speaking, the Jorat comprises 18 villages, with a lot of agriculture : * Carrouge, * Corcelles-le-Jorat, * Les Cullayes, * Essertes, * Ferlens, * Froideville, Vaud, Froideville, * Hermenches, * Mézières (Vaud), Mézières, * Montpreveyres, * Peney-le-Jorat, * Ropraz, * Servion, * Sottens, * Syens * Villars-Mendraz, * Villars-Tiercelin, * Vucherens, * Vulliens. Stretching somewhat the definition, some 20 villages could be added to the above listing. See also * Swiss Plateau {{Coord, 46, 34, 56, N, 6, 41, 28, E, region:CH-VD_ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italian Language
Italian (''italiano'' or ) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire. Together with Sardinian, Italian is the least divergent language from Latin. Spoken by about 85 million people (2022), Italian is an official language in Italy, Switzerland (Ticino and the Grisons), San Marino, and Vatican City. It has an official minority status in western Istria (Croatia and Slovenia). Italian is also spoken by large immigrant and expatriate communities in the Americas and Australia.Ethnologue report for language code:ita (Italy) – Gordon, Raymond G., Jr. (ed.), 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Fifteenth edition. Dallas, Tex.: SIL International. Online version Itali ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2007 Swiss Federal Election
Elections to the Swiss Federal Assembly, the federal parliament of Switzerland, were held on Sunday, 21 October 2007. In a few cantons, a second round of the elections to the Council of States was held on 11 November, 18 November, and 25 November 2007. For the 48th legislative term of the federal parliament (2007–2011), voters in 26 cantons elected all 200 members of the National Council as well as 43 out of 46 members of the Council of States. The other three members of the Council of States for that term of service were elected at an earlier date.The date of the election of the members of the Council of States is a matter of cantonal law. 24 cantons have chosen to let the elections coincide with the federally regulated National Council elections. Two cantons are electing their members of the Council of States at an earlier date: Zug reelected its incumbents Peter Bieri and Rolf Schweiger on 29 October 2006, while Appenzell Innerrhoden elected Ivo Bischofsberger as its on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
