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Geneva first appears in history as an Allobrogian border town, fortified against the Celtic Helvetii tribe, which the Roman Republic took in 121 BC.. In 58 BC, Caesar, Roman governor of Gaul, destroyed the Rhône bridge at Geneva and built a 19-mile earthwork from Lake Geneva to the Jura Mountains in order to block the migration of the Helvetii, who "attempted, sometimes by day, more often by ...
1977 – Geneva Symphony Orchestra established. [36] 1978 - Geneva Mosque built. [37] 1980 – Banque de Patrimoines Privés Genève established. 1986 – Geneva City Archives established. 1987 – Geneva Airport railway station opens. 1988 – International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum opens.
Although the King James Version was intended to replace the Geneva Bible, the King James translators relied heavily upon this version. [23] Bruce Metzger, in Theology Today 1960, observes the inevitable reliance the KJV had on the Geneva Bible. Some estimate that twenty percent of the former came directly from the latter.
Saint Pierre Cathedral in Geneva, Switzerland is the principal church of the Reformed Protestant Church of Geneva. Previously it was a Roman Catholic cathedral, having been converted in 1535. It is known as the adopted home church of John Calvin, one of the leaders of the Protestant Reformation. Inside the church is a wooden chair used by Calvin.
3.1 International organizations based in Geneva. 3.2 Law and order in Geneva. 4 History of Geneva. ... Common English name(s): Geneva; Official English name(s): Geneva;
PATjE (born 1970), birth name Patrice Jauffret, singer-songwriter, and musician [171] Faule Petitot (1572–1629), sculptor, cabinetmaker and architect, citizen of Geneva since 1615 [172] Jean Petitot (1607–1691), enamel painter, son of Faule [173] Carmen Perrin (born 1953), Bolivian-born Swiss visual artist, designer, and educator
Using a razor and glue, Jefferson cut and pasted his arrangement of selected verses from a 1794 bilingual Latin/Greek version using the text of the Plantin Polyglot, a French Geneva Bible and the King James Version [12] of the gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John in chronological order—putting together excerpts from one text with those of ...
In January 1604, King James I convened the Hampton Court Conference, where a new English version was conceived in response to the problems of the earlier translations perceived by the Puritans, who preferred the Geneva Bible. The King James version slowly took over the place of the Geneva Bible had among the Puritans.