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- proper noun A
canton ofSwitzerland (its German name).
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As the conquest of the Aargau was the first made by the Confederates, their delegates (or the federal diet) naturally met at
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various
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High rents have forced thousands of Zugers out of the canton altogether, to nearby regions such as Aargau and Lucerne where property is much cheaper.
Swiss Region's Boom Breeds Discontent Goran Mijuk 2011
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The case came to light in March, after two male residents of a care home in the northeastern canton of Aargau informed their parents of sexual contact with the therapist.
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Her father Sigi Dreifuss (1899 – 1956) was from Endingen (Canton of Aargau), one of the two villages of old Switzerland in which Jews could live before the emancipation in 1866.
Ruth Dreifuss. 2009
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Conquest in the north of the Aargau, from Frederick of Austria, at the behest of his rival, the Emperor Sigismund.
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Most powerful of the Swabian families was the rising house of Habsburg (whose original lands expanded in the 13th century into the Aargau, Breisgau, and Alsace).
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The Aargau, Thurgau, Ticino, and parts of Vaud were governed by the confederation or one or more of its members.
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Switzerland, on January 12th, 1899, and his early childhood was spent at Lenzburg, Aargau, the birthplace of his father who was an employee of the Swiss Federal Railway.
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It is unknown on whose recommendation Mind, in his eighth year, was placed at the academy for poor children, which Pestalozzi had previously instituted at Neuenhof, near Bern, Aargau; but, in the year 1778, we find, in the authentic account of that institution, published by the
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 333, September 27, 1828 Various
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Bullinger by his wife Anna (Wiederkehr), was born at Bremgarten, Aargau, on the 18th of July 1504.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various
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