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1970 - Population: 173,618 in city; 331,599 in canton. [25] 1972 - Tour du Lac rowing contest begins. 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.
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 ...
Map of Geneva, 1:50,000. Geneva is located at 46°12' North, 6°09' East, at the south-western end of Lake Geneva, where the Rhône flows out. It is surrounded by three mountain chains, each belonging to the Jura: the Jura main range lies north-westward, the Vuache southward, and the Salève south-eastward.
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. Public art in Geneva Celestial Sphere Woodrow Wilson Memorial; Events in Geneva. Fêtes de Genève; Geneva Motor Show ...
Sep. 23—GENEVA — John Marhefka has seen a lot of Grape Jamboree parades and he was happy to be on his front porch along East Main Street 30 minutes before the event got rolling on Saturday ...
the districts of Tranchées and Saint-Léger located at the site of the ancient eastern fortifications of Geneva Hollande's banking district and the one surrounding Parc des Bastions The old town of Geneva, which constituted the medieval fortified city, is made up of Cité-centre and the district of Saint-Gervais .
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).
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