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Hermenches
Hermenches is a municipality in the district Broye-Vully in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. History Hermenches is first mentioned in 1254 as ''Ermenges''. Geography Hermenches has an area, , of . Of this area, or 65.0% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 28.7% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 6.3% 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 2.5%. Out of the forested land, 27.3% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.5% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 44.2% is used for growing crops and 20.1% is pastur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Broye-Vully District
Broye-Vully District (french: District de la Broye-Vully) is a district in Vaud Canton in Switzerland. Geography Broye-Vully has an area, , of . Of this area, or 65.5% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 21.5% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 11.1% is settled (buildings or roads) and or 2.0% is unproductive land.Swiss Federal Statistical Office-Land Use Statistics 2009 data accessed 25 March 2010 Demographics Broye-Vully has a population () of . In there were 280 live births to Swiss citizens and 116 births to non-Swiss citizens, and in same time span there were 277 deaths of Swiss citizens and 19 non-Swiss citizen deaths. Ignoring immigration and emigration, the population of Swiss citizens increased by 3 whil ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moudon District
Moudon was a district in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland. The seat of the district was the town of Moudon. The district consisted of 32 municipalities and had an area of 119.61 km² with a population of 12273 inhabitants (End of 2003). Mergers and name changes * On 1 January 1961 the municipality of Bercher went to the Echallens District. * On 1 September 2006 the municipalities of Boulens, Chapelle-sur-Moudon, Correvon, Denezy, Martherenges, Montaubion-Chardonney, Neyruz-sur-Moudon, Ogens, Peyres-Possens, Saint-Cierges, Sottens, Thierrens, and Villars-Mendraz came from the District de Moudon to join the Gros-de-Vaud District. * On 1 September 2006 the municipalities of Brenles, Bussy-sur-Moudon, Chavannes-sur-Moudon, Chesalles-sur-Moudon, Cremin, Curtilles, Dompierre, Forel-sur-Lucens, Hermenches, Lovatens, Lucens, Moudon, Oulens-sur-Lucens, Prévonloup, Rossenge, Sarzens, Syens, Villars-le-Comte, and Vucherens came from the District de Moudon to join the Broye-Vully Distric ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moudon
Moudon (; la, Minnodunum; german: Milden) is a municipality in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. It was the seat of Moudon District and is now in the Broye-Vully district. History Montmagny was known as ''Minnodunum'' or ''Minnidunum'' during the Roman era. Around 1100, 1154 and 1180 it was mentioned as ''Meldun'', in 1161 it was ''Moudon'' and in 1167 as ''Meldunum'' or ''Mildunum''. As ancient Minnodunum, during Roman times, the city was in the country of the Helvetii, on a road from Viviscus (modern Vevey), on the Lake of Geneva, to Aventicum (modern Avenches). Geography Moudon has an area, , of . Of this area, or 46.7% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 35.1% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 16.5% is settled (buildings or roads), or 1.8% is either rivers or lakes and or 0.1% is unproductive land. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peney-le-Jorat
Peney-le-Jorat is a former municipality in the district of Gros-de-Vaud in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. It is in the south-west of Switzerland, in close proximity to both France and Italy. The villages of Villars-Tiercelin, Montaubion-Chardonney, Sottens, Villars-Mendraz and Peney-le-Jorat merged on 1 July 2011 into the new municipality of Jorat-Menthue.Amtliches Gemeindeverzeichnis der Schweiz published by the Swiss Federal Statistical Office accessed 17 February 2011 History Peney-le-Jorat is first mentioned around 1141-43 as ''Pinoy''.Geography Peney-le-Jorat has an area, , of . Of this area, or 54.9% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 39.7% is forested. Of the rest of the lan ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ropraz
Ropraz is a municipality in the district of Broye-Vully in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. History Ropraz is first mentioned in 1234 as ''Rospraz''. Geography Ropraz has an area, , of . Of this area, or 70.8% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 19.5% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 8.9% 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 3.3% and transportation infrastructure made up 4.1%. Out of the forested land, 17.6% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.9% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 49.3% is used for growing crops and 19.5% is pastures, while ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rossenges
Rossenges is a municipality in the district of Broye-Vully of the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. The municipality of Rossenges is considering a merger at a date in the future into the municipality of Moudon.Amtliches Gemeindeverzeichnis der Schweiz published by the Swiss Federal Statistical Office accessed 17 February 2011 History Rossenges is first mentioned in 1309 as ''Rossenge''. It was also often mentioned as ''L'Abbaye de Rossenges''.Geography Rossenges has an area, , of . Of this area, or 91.6% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 3.7% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 4.7% is settled (buildings or roads).[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sottens
Sottens is a former municipality in the district of Gros-de-Vaud in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. It is known for its radio transmitter for the French language Swiss radio, built in 1931. The municipalities of Villars-Tiercelin, Montaubion-Chardonney, Sottens, Villars-Mendraz and Peney-le-Jorat merged on 1 July 2011 into the new municipality of Jorat-Menthue.Amtliches Gemeindeverzeichnis der Schweiz published by the Swiss Federal Statistical Office accessed 17 February 2011 History Sottens is first mentioned in 1147 as ''Sotens''.Geography Sottens has an area, , of . Of this area, or 65.3% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 29.1% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 6.0% is se ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Syens
Syens is a municipality in the district of Broye-Vully in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. History Syens is first mentioned in 1018 as ''Ciens''. Geography Syens has an area, , of . Of this area, or 55.2% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 33.3% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 11.1% 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 3.2% and transportation infrastructure made up 7.1%. Out of the forested land, all of the forested land area is covered with heavy forests. Of the agricultural land, 44.0% is used for growing crops and 10.7% is pastures. The municipality was part of the |
Vucherens
Vucherens is a municipality in the district Broye-Vully in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. Geography Vucherens has an area, , of . Of this area, or 64.2% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 23.2% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 12.2% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.3% is either rivers or lakes.Swiss Federal Statistical Office-Land Use Statistics 2009 data accessed 25 March 2010 Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 1.2% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 7.0% and transportation infrastructure made up 4.0%. Out of the forested land, 21.1% of the total land area is heavily forested and 2.1% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 38.8% is used for gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corcelles-le-Jorat
Corcelles-le-Jorat is a municipality in the district of Broye-Vully in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. History Corcelles-le-Jorat is first mentioned about 1140 as ''Corceleys''. Geography Corcelles-le-Jorat has an area, , of . Of this area, or 52.5% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 42.0% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 5.8% 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 3.0% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.6%. Out of the forested land, 39.1% of the total land area is heavily forested and 2.9% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 28.1% is used for gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swiss People's Party
The Swiss People's Party (german: Schweizerische Volkspartei, SVP; rm, Partida populara Svizra, PPS), also known as the Democratic Union of the Centre (french: Union démocratique du centre, UDC; it, Unione Democratica di Centro, UDC), is a national-conservative, right-wing populist political party in Switzerland. Chaired by Marco Chiesa, it is the largest party in the Federal Assembly, with 53 members of the National Council and 6 of the Council of States. The SVP originated in 1971 as a merger of the Party of Farmers, Traders and Independents (BGB) and the Democratic Party, while the BGB, in turn, had been founded in the context of the emerging local farmers' parties in the late 1910s. The SVP initially did not enjoy any increased support beyond that of the BGB, retaining around 11% of the vote through the 1970s and 1980s. This changed however during the 1990s, when the party underwent deep structural and ideological changes under the influence of Christoph Blocher; the SVP ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Social Democratic Party Of Switzerland
The Social Democratic Party of Switzerland (german: Sozialdemokratische Partei der Schweiz; SP; rm, Partida Socialdemocrata da la Svizra) or Swiss Socialist Party (french: Parti socialiste suisse, it, Partito Socialista Svizzero; PS), is a political party in Switzerland. The SP has had two representatives on the Federal Council since 1960 and received the second highest total number of votes in the 2019 Swiss federal election. The SP was founded on 21 October 1888 and is currently the second largest of the four leading coalition political parties in Switzerland. It is the only left-leaning party with representatives on the Federal Council, currently Alain Berset and Simonetta Sommaruga. As of September 2019, the SP is the second largest political party in the Federal Assembly. Unlike most other Swiss parties, the SP is the largest pro-European party in Switzerland and supports Swiss membership of the European Union. Additionally, it is strongly opposed to capitalism and main ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
