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Winznau
Winznau is a Municipalities of Switzerland, municipality in the district of Gösgen (district), Gösgen in the Cantons of Switzerland, canton of Solothurn (canton), Solothurn in Switzerland. Geography Winznau has an area, , of . Of this area, or 36.3% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 40.1% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 19.8% is settled (buildings or roads), or 4.1% 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 2.8% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 9.4% and transportation infrastructure made up 5.6%. Out of the forested land, 38.1% of the total land area is heavily forested and 2.0% is covered ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lostorf
Lostorf is a municipality in the district of Gösgen in the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland. History Lostorf is first mentioned around 1145-53 as ''de Loztorf''. Geography Lostorf has an area, , of . Of this area, or 37.7% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 48.8% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 13.8% is settled (buildings or roads) and or 0.1% 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 8.4% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.7%. while parks, green belts and sports fields made up 1.4%. Out of the forested land, 47.2% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.6% is covered with orchards or small clu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Obergösgen
Obergösgen is a municipality in the district of Gösgen in the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland. History Obergösgen is first mentioned in 1161 as ''Gozequouon''. In 1308 it was mentioned as ''Göskon superior''. Geography Obergösgen has an area, , of . Of this area, or 40.7% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 29.4% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 21.2% is settled (buildings or roads), or 8.0% 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, industrial buildings made up 2.2% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 14.6% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.7%. while parks, green belts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olten
Olten (High Alemannic: ''Oute'') is a town in the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland and capital of the district of the same name. Olten's railway station is within 30 minutes of Zürich, Basel, Bern, and Lucerne by train, and is a rail hub of Switzerland. History Significant amounts of artefacts of the Magdalenian (c. 16'000 to 14'000 years ago) have been excavated near Olten. There are also finds dated to the Mesolithic and Neolithic, but there is no trace of a settlement, and no ceramic finds; finds dating to the Bronze and Iron Ages are also rather limited. There was a vicus at the site during the Roman era. The name of the settlement is not known, but it seems to have been of a certain importance, presumably reflecting the presence of a bridge across the Aar River. The Roman settlement was probably destroyed in the later 3rd century. At the end of the 3rd century, a fortification was built at the bridge-head, on the south-eastern corner of the earlier vicus. This f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trimbach, Switzerland
Trimbach is a municipality in the district of Gösgen in the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland. History Trimbach is first mentioned in 1244 as ''Trinbach''. Geography Trimbach has an area, , of . Of this area, or 23.2% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 52.4% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 23.8% is settled (buildings or roads), or 1.0% 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 2.1% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 11.9% and transportation infrastructure made up 7.7%. while parks, green belts and sports fields made up 1.3%. Out of the forested land, 50.9% of the total land area is hea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dulliken
Dulliken is a municipality in the district of Olten in the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland. History Dulliken is first mentioned in 924 as ''Tullinchova''. In 1173 it was mentioned as ''Tullichon''. Geography Dulliken has an area, , of . Of this area, or 38.4% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 33.2% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 27.2% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.7% 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 4.8% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 13.7% and transportation infrastructure made up 5.1%. Power and water infrastructure as well as other special developed areas made up ... [...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] |
Paleolithic
The Paleolithic or Palaeolithic (), also called the Old Stone Age (from Greek: παλαιός ''palaios'', "old" and λίθος ''lithos'', "stone"), is a period in human prehistory that is distinguished by the original development of stone tools, and which represents almost the entire period of human prehistoric technology. It extends from the earliest known use of stone tools by hominins, 3.3 million years ago, to the end of the Pleistocene, 11,650 cal BP. The Paleolithic Age in Europe preceded the Mesolithic Age, although the date of the transition varies geographically by several thousand years. During the Paleolithic Age, hominins grouped together in small societies such as bands and subsisted by gathering plants, fishing, and hunting or scavenging wild animals. The Paleolithic Age is characterized by the use of knapped stone tools, although at the time humans also used wood and bone tools. Other organic commodities were adapted for use as tools, includ ... [...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] |
Voter Turnout
In political science, voter turnout is the participation rate (often defined as those who cast a ballot) of a given election. This can be the percentage of registered voters, eligible voters, or all voting-age people. According to Stanford University political scientists Adam Bonica and Michael McFaul, there is a consensus among political scientists that "democracies perform better when more people vote." Institutional factors drive the vast majority of differences in turnout rates.Michael McDonald and Samuel Popkin"The Myth of the Vanishing Voter"in American Political Science Review. December 2001. p. 970. For example, simpler parliamentary democracies where voters get shorter ballots, fewer elections, and a multi-party system that makes accountability easier see much higher turnout than the systems of the United States, Japan, and Switzerland. Significance Some parts of society are more likely to vote than others. As turnout approaches 90%, significant differences between vot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian Democratic People's Party Of Switzerland
The Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland (german: Christlichdemokratische Volkspartei der Schweiz, CVP), also called the Christian Democratic Party (french: Parti démocrate-chrétien, PDC), Democratic People's Party ( it, Partito Popolare Democratico, PPD) and Swiss Christian Democratic Party ( rm, ), PCD), was a Christian-democratic political party in Switzerland. On 1 January 2021, it merged with the Conservative Democratic Party of Switzerland (BDP/PBD) to form The Centre, which now operates at the federal level. The Christian Democratic People's Party will continue to exist at the cantonal level as individual local and regional parties determine their status. Its 28 parliamentary seats in the National Council and 13 parliamentary seats in the Council of States were transferred to the new party, as was its sole executive seat on the Federal Council, held by Viola Amherd. The party was founded as the Catholic Conservative Party in 1912. It peaked in the 1950 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
