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Saint-Oyens
Saint-Oyens is a municipality in the Swiss canton of Vaud located at the foot of the Jura mountains. It lies in the district of Morges. History Saint-Oyens is first mentioned in 1139 as ''Sancto Eugendo''. By the 13th Century the church of Saint Oyens was first mentioned. It was totally rebuilt in 1877-78. Some farmhouses in the municipality are from the 18th and 19th Centuries. Geography Saint-Oyens has an area, , of . Of this area, or 56.4% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 38.4% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 4.9% 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 2.6% and transportation infrastructure ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morges District
Morges District is a district in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. The seat of the district is the city of Morges. Geography Morges has an area, , of . Of this area, or 55.1% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 33.9% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 10.3% is settled (buildings or roads) and or 0.7% is unproductive land.Swiss Federal Statistical Office-Land Use Statistics 2009 data accessed 25 March 2010 Demographics Morges has a population () of . Most of the population () speaks French (56,847 or 82.3%), with |
Aubonne District
Aubonne District was a former district of the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. The seat of the district was the town of Aubonne until January 1, 2008. The municipalities are now part of the district of Morges, except Longirod, Marchissy and Saint-George which are now part of the district of Nyon.Nomenklaturen – Amtliches Gemeindeverzeichnis der Schweiz accessed 4 April 2011 The following municipalities were located in the district: * * * |
Essertines-sur-Rolle
Essertines-sur-Rolle (, literally ''Essertines on Rolle'') is a municipality in the district of Nyon in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. History Essertines-sur-Rolle is first mentioned in 1152 as ''Essartinis''. Geography Essertines-sur-Rolle has an area, , of . Of this area, or 70.2% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 22.9% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 7.6% 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 3.9% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.2%. Out of the forested land, 20.0% of the total land area is heavily forested and 2.9% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gimel, Switzerland
Gimel is a municipality in the Swiss the canton Vaud, located in the district of Morges. History Gimel is first mentioned around 979-993 as ''Gemella''. Geography Gimel has an area, , of . Of this area, or 32.1% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 61.7% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 5.7% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.2% is either rivers or lakes and or 0.5% is unproductive land.Swiss Federal Statistical Office-Land Use Statistics 2009 data accessed 25 March 2010 Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 2.7% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.2%. Out of the forested land, 60.4% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.3% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricult ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Longirod
Longirod is a municipality in the Swiss canton Vaud, located in the district of Nyon. History Longirod is first mentioned in 1267 as ''Longirot''. Geography Longirod has an area, , of . Of this area, or 39.3% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 57.4% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 3.2% is settled (buildings or roads) and or 0.3% is unproductive land.Swiss Federal Statistical Office-Land Use Statistics 2009 data accessed 25 March 2010 Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 1.6% and transportation infrastructure made up 1.5%. Out of the forested land, 55.1% of the total land area is heavily forested and 2.3% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 25.5% is used for growing crops ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint-Oyen, Savoie
Saint-Oyen is a former Communes of France, commune in the Savoie Departments of France, department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Regions of France, region in south-eastern France. On 1 January 2019, it was merged into the new commune Grand-Aigueblanche. 7 November 2018 Twin towns The village is town twinning, twinned with Saint-Oyens in Switzerland.See also *Communes of the Savoie departmentReferences Former communes of Savoie {{Savoie-geo-stub ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint-Oyen, Italy
Saint-Oyen (; Valdôtain: ) is a village and ''comune'' in the Aosta Valley region of north-western Italy. Geography The village is bounded by Bourg-Saint-Pierre (Switzerland), Etroubles, Gignod and Saint-Rhémy-en-Bosses. Twin towns The village is twinned with Saint-Oyens Saint-Oyens is a municipality in the Swiss canton of Vaud located at the foot of the Jura mountains. It lies in the district of Morges. History Saint-Oyens is first mentioned in 1139 as ''Sancto Eugendo''. By the 13th Century the church of S ... in Switzerland. Notes and references Cities and towns in Aosta Valley {{Aosta-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burtigny
Burtigny is a municipality in the district of Nyon in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. History Burtigny is first mentioned in 1144 as ''Britiniaco''. In 1145 it was mentioned as ''Brettignei''. Geography Burtigny has an area, , of . Of this area, or 58.1% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 34.0% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 6.0% is settled (buildings or roads) and or 1.6% is unproductive land.Swiss Federal Statistical Office-Land Use Statistics 2009 data accessed 25 March 2010 Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 2.8% and transportation infrastructure made up 3.2%. Out of the forested land, 32.6% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.4% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the ... [...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] |
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] |
Green Party Of Switzerland
The Green Party of Switzerland (german: GRÜNE Schweiz; french: Les VERT-E-S suisses; it, VERDI svizzeri; rm, VERDA svizra) is the fourth-largest party in the National Council of Switzerland and the largest party that is not represented on the Federal Council. History The first Green party in Switzerland was founded as a local party in 1971 in the town of Neuchâtel. In 1979, Daniel Brélaz was elected to the National Council as the first Green MP on the national level (in Switzerland and in the world). Local and regional Green parties and organisations were founded in many different towns and cantons in the following years. In 1983, two different national green party federations were created: in May, diverse local green groups came together in Fribourg to form the ''Federation of Green Parties of Switzerland'', and in June, some left-alternative groups formed the ''Green Alternative Party of Switzerland'' in Bern. In 1990, an attempt to combine these organisations failed. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liberal Party Of Switzerland
french: Parti liberal suisse it, Partito Liberale Svizzero rm, Partida liberala svizra , logo = LPS.Logo.jpg , foundation = , dissolution = , merged = FDP.The Liberals , headquarters = Spitalgasse 32, Case postale 71073001 Bern , ideology = Libertarianism (Switzerland)Economic liberalismSoft Euroscepticism , position = Centre-right , international = Liberal International , european = European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party , colours = Blue , country = Switzerland The Liberal Party of Switzerland (german: link=no, Liberale Partei der Schweiz, french: link=no, Parti liberal suisse, it, Partito Liberale Svizzero, rm, Partida liberala svizra) was a political party in Switzerland with economically liberal policies. It was known as a party of the upper class. On 1 January 2009 it merged with the larger Free Democratic Party (FDP/PRD) to establish FDP.The Liberals. It was strongest in the Protestant cantons in Romandy, particularly in the cantons of Geneva, Vaud and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
