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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 ...
The Geneva Functional Urban Area covers a land area of 2,292 km 2 (885 sq mi) (24.2% in Switzerland, 75.8% in France) [10] and had 1,053,436 inhabitants in Jan. 2021 (Swiss estimates and French census), 57.8% of them on Swiss territory and 42.2% on French territory.
1032 - Geneva reverts to Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor; 1321 – Fire. [4] 1333 – Fire. [4] 1387 – Town charter granted. [7] 1400 – Sources indicate circa. 13 Jewish families living in Geneva. 1420 – The Jews of Geneva are confined to a ghetto (the only one in today's Switzerland). [8] 1430 – Fire. [4] 1478 – Printing press in ...
Between the Alps and a Hard Place: Switzerland in World War II and the Rewriting of History (2000) excerpt and text search; Dawson, William Harbutt. Social Switzerland: Studies of Present-day Social Movements and Legislation (1897) 302 pp; with focus on social and economic history, poverty, labour online; Fahrni, Dieter. An Outline History of ...
The first bishoprics were founded in the 4th and 5th centuries in Basel (documented in 346), Martigny (doc. 381, moved to Sion in 585), Geneva (doc. 441), and Chur (doc. 451). There is evidence from the 6th century for a bishopric in Lausanne , which may have been moved from Avenches.
The WEF was founded in 1971 by Klaus Schwab, a business professor at the University of Geneva. [7] First named the European Management Forum, it changed its name to the World Economic Forum in 1987 and sought to broaden its vision to include providing a platform for resolving international conflicts. [8]
Map of the Helvetic Republic (1798) Map of Switzerland in 1815 New cantons were added only in the modern period, during 1803–1815; this mostly concerned former subject territories now recognized as full cantons (such as Vaud, Ticino and Aargau), and the full integration of territories that had been more loosely allied to the Confederacy (such as Geneva, Valais and Grisons).
Fireworks at the Fêtes de Genève, 2012 The Geneva Motor Show (2008) Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer of the 18th century Émile Taddéoli, Swiss aviation pioneer born in Geneva in 1879