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Attalens
Attalens (; frp, Atalens, locally or ''Talin'') is a municipality in the district of Veveyse in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland. History Attalens is first mentioned in 867 as ''Haltningum''. Geography Attalens has an area of . Of this area, or 59.8% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 27.0% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 13.3% 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, housing and buildings made up 8.5% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.4%. Power and water infrastructure as well as other special developed areas made up 1.3% of the area Out of the forested land, 23.8% of the t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Attalens - Église Notre-Dame Intérieur
Attalens (; frp, Atalens, locally or ''Talin'') is a municipality in the district of Veveyse in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland. History Attalens is first mentioned in 867 as ''Haltningum''. Geography Attalens has an area of . Of this area, or 59.8% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 27.0% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 13.3% 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, housing and buildings made up 8.5% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.4%. Power and water infrastructure as well as other special developed areas made up 1.3% of the area Out of the forested land, 23.8% of the t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Veveyse (district)
Veveyse District (german: Bezirk Vivisbach; french: District de la Veveyse ; frp, District de la Vevêse ) is one of seven districts in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland. It has a population of (as of ). It takes its name from the river Veveyse which flows through the district. Municipalities It consists of the following municipalities: Coat of arms The blazon of the district coat of arms is ''Or, an Eagle displayed Sable.'' Demographics Veveyse has a population () of . Most of the population () speaks French (11,566 or 91.7%) as their first language, German is the second most common (345 or 2.7%) and Portuguese is the third (306 or 2.4%). There are 86 people who speak Italian and 3 people who speak Romansh. , the population was 49.9% male and 50.1% female. The population was made up of 6,393 Swiss men (41.1% of the population) and 1,358 (8.7%) non-Swiss men. There were 6,586 Swiss women (42.4%) and 1,203 (7.7%) non-Swiss women. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bossonnens
Bossonnens (; frp, Bossonens, locally ) is a municipality in the district of Veveyse in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland. History Bossonnens is first mentioned about 1000 as ''Bucenens''. Geography Bossonnens has an area of . Of this area, or 71.5% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 15.9% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 12.2% 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 6.8% and transportation infrastructure made up 3.2%. Out of the forested land, all of the forested land area is covered with heavy forests. Of the agricultural land, 26.3% is used for growing crops and 44.1% is pastures. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chardonne
Chardonne is a municipality in the district of Riviera-Pays-d'Enhaut in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. History Chardonne is first mentioned in 1001 as ''Cardona''. Geography Chardonne has an area, , of . Of this area, or 46.9% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 37.0% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 15.4% is settled (buildings or roads) and or 0.4% is unproductive land.Swiss Federal Statistical Office-Land Use Statistics 2009 data accessed 25 March 2010 Of the built up area, housing and buildings make up 9.4% and transportation infrastructure makes up 5.1%. Out of the forested land, 33.2% of the total land area is heavily forested and 3.8% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 4.9 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corsier-sur-Vevey
Corsier-sur-Vevey is a municipality in the district of Riviera-Pays-d'Enhaut in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. History Corsier-sur-Vevey is first mentioned in 1079 as ''Corise''. Until 1953 it was known as ''Corsier''. Geography Corsier-sur-Vevey has an area, , of . Of this area, or 44.1% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 34.4% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 20.8% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.3% is either rivers or lakes and or 0.3% is unproductive land.Swiss Federal Statistical Office-Land Use Statistics 2018 data accessed 26 July 2020 Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 1.6% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Granges (Veveyse)
Granges (, ), officially referred to as ''Granges (Veveyse)'', is a municipality in the district of Veveyse in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland. History Granges is first mentioned in 1134 as ''per campos Grangiarum''. Geography Granges has an area of . Of this area, or 69.1% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 20.2% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 10.8% is settled (buildings or roads).Swiss Federal Statistical Office-Land Use Statistics 2009 data accessed 25 March 2010 Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 1.8% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 5.8% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.9%. Out of the forested land, 18.4% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.8% is covered w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jongny
Jongny () is a municipality in the district of Riviera-Pays-d'Enhaut in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. History Jongny is first mentioned around 1168-80 as ''Iaunie''. Geography Jongny has an area, , of . Of this area, or 49.1% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 21.8% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 28.7% is settled (buildings or roads) 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 17.6% and transportation infrastructure made up 9.3%. Power and water infrastructure as well as other special developed areas made up 1.9% of the area Out of the forested land, 18.1% of the total land area is heavily fores ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Remaufens
Remaufens ( frp, Remofens ) is a municipality in the district of Veveyse in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland. History Remaufens is first mentioned about 1000 as ''Romulfens''. Geography Remaufens has an area of . Of this area, or 67.5% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 25.2% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 6.6% 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, housing and buildings made up 3.7% and transportation infrastructure made up 1.9%. Out of the forested land, 23.2% of the total land area is heavily forested and 2.0% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural la ... [...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 m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2011 Swiss Federal Election
Federal elections were held in Switzerland on 23 October 2011. All of the Federal Assembly were to be elected: all 200 seats in the National Council and all 46 seats in the Council of States. Voter turnout was 49.1%, compared to 48.9% in 2007. National Council At the last election, in 2007, the Swiss People's Party (SVP) won the highest share of the vote ever recorded for a single party in Switzerland, with 29% of the vote. Soon after, a moderate faction split from the SVP, forming the Conservative Democratic Party (BDP). In the 2011 election, the two neophyte parties BDP and Green Liberal Party (GLP) were successful, each receiving 5.4% of the popular vote. Both the GLP and the BDP have gained the required five seats to form their own parliamentary groups, suggesting a split of the centrist CVP/EVP/glp group. All other major parties lost votes, the Swiss People's Party (SVP) for the first time since the 1987 elections. With 26.6% of the popular vote, the SVP is sti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian Social Party (Switzerland)
The Christian Social Party (CSP) (german: Christlich-soziale Partei, french: Parti chrétien-social) is a political party in Switzerland of the Christian left. The CSP is more aligned with social democracy than the other major Christian party, the Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland (CVP), which is more economically liberal. With the moderate Christian left as its background, the CSP commits itself to social-democratic and environmentalist political solutions. The core principles of the CSP contain, among others, "solidarity with the socially and economically disadvantaged and the preservation of the environment." Electoral power As of 2016, the CSP does not hold any seats in the National Council of Switzerland. A seat in the lower house was once held for decades by Hugo Fasel representing the canton of Fribourg. On a cantonal level, the CSP has many elected members, mainly in the Roman Catholic cantons of Valais, Fribourg, Obwalden and Jura. In the latte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
