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Frédéric-César de La Harpe. La Harpe published his Essay on the Constitution of the Vaud, an anti-Bernese tract.On 10 December 1797 he addressed the French Directory, stating that commitments made by the Duke of Savoy in treaties signed with Bern at Lausanne in 1564 were now the responsibility of the French and thus gave them the right to assist the people of Vaud against the Bernese.
This list includes European countries and regions that were part of the Roman Empire, or that were given Latin place names in historical references.As a large portion of the latter were only created during the Middle Ages, often based on scholarly etiology, this is not to be confused with a list of the actual names modern regions and settlements bore during the classical era.
Léman (French:) was a department of the French First Republic and French First Empire.Its name came from the French name of Lake Geneva, Lac Léman.It was formed in 1798, when the Republic of Geneva was annexed by the French Republic.
Western Europe and parts of Central Europe generally fall into the temperate maritime climate (Cfb), the southern part is mostly a Mediterranean climate (mostly Csa, smaller area with Csb), the north-central part and east into central Russia is mostly a humid continental climate (Dfb) and the northern part of the continent is a subarctic ...
Europe covers approx. 10,186,000 square kilometres (3,933,000 sq mi), or 2% of Earth's surface (6.8% of Earth's land area), making it the second-smallest continent (using the seven-continent model). Politically, Europe is divided into about fifty sovereign states , of which Russia is the largest and most populous , spanning 39% of the continent ...
The Lemanic Arc [citation needed] (French: Arc lémanique) is the region on the north side of Lake Léman, stretching out from Geneva to Lausanne and Montreux.Its parts are Geneva, La Côte, Lausanne, Lavaux, La Riviera and le Chablais.
Leman (disambiguation) Leyment a commune in Ain department, France This page was last edited on 3 November 2024, at 15:40 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...
Continental Europe or mainland Europe is the contiguous mainland of Europe, excluding its surrounding islands. [1] It can also be referred to ambiguously as the European continent , [ 2 ] [ 3 ] – which can conversely mean the whole of Europe – and, by some, simply as the Continent . [ 4 ]