Biel is the German name for the town, Bienne its French counterpart.

Biel Castle was built either shortly before or shortly after the foundation of the town, to help support Nidau Castle.

In 1275 King of Germany Rudolph of Habsburg granted Biel a town charter.

The two competing powers struggled for power in Biel for over 400 years and prevented the town from becoming completely independent from either powerful neighbor.

The town was officially named Biel until 2004, even though the bilingual Biel-Bienne was in common use.

By the late 13th century, Seigniory was controlled by the town of Biel.

On 20 March 1815 Bern was given the town of Biel / Bienne and much of the land that had been owned by the Bishop of Basel as compensation for territory lost during the Long Diet.

Upon activating the amulet, the player is informed of his / her past by his / her dead father, after which the player is transported to the town of Crossroads, and Part I ends.

The Irish singer / songwriter Tommy Makem wrote a lighthearted song about the town, " Fare Thee Well, Enniskillen ," covered by The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem and The Dubliners.

Data has also more recently been collected from Enniskillen Airport / St Angelo, under 4 miles to the North of the town centre, which should, in time, give a more accurate representation of the climate of the Enniskillen area.

Houses of particular historical significance ( former residences of the famous, for example, or even just very old houses ) may gain a protected status in town planning as examples of built heritage and / or of streetscape values.

The town is also the site of the start / finish line of the " Sail Around the Cape ," which rounds the Cape counter-clockwise, returning via the Cape Cod Canal.

The naming of a region and its principal town after the main river is a common feature in this part of the world — compare the adjoining districts / rivers / towns of Arachosia and Bactria.

It comes from heiðr = heathland, and býr = " yard " or " clearing / village / town ", thus " heath yard ", or " heath town ".

While the settlement today referred to as Hedeby / Haithabu lies on the south side of the Schlei inlet, the settlement that grew up at around the same time on the north side has had a continuous history of habitation to modern times, and has now grown into the town known as Schleswig and given its name to the surrounding province.

* Java ( town ), a town in Georgia / South Osstia

He played a character who saved his town from under-the-earth " graboid " monsters in the comedy / horror film Tremorsa role that People found him " far too accomplished " to playand portrayed an earnest medical student experimenting with death in Joel Schumacher's Flatliners.

In 2004, Masorti Judaism was introduced into the Netherlands by the founding of a Traditional / non-Egalitarian Masorti community in the town of Almere.

In the 1946 with decree Liutenant one ( Umberto II of Savoia ) the new Municipality of Apuania was melted and the province ( for error and / or historical ignorance ) resumptions the denomination does not date from 1859 when it was " Massa and Carrara " but Massa ( name with which it came designated to the city of Massa or Massa of Carrara from 1700 until Kingdom of Italy ( 1860 ), denomination that, in order to distinguish it from the other homonymous cities, the chief town continued till the institution of the unified Municipality of Apuania ) and with same the decree liutenant were placed to Massa.

Velocities of 160 km / h ( 100 mph ) have been reported in southern locations, and the town of Encarnación was once leveled by a tornado.

They are believed to have played a central role in the mound-building peoples ' religious life and documented uses include semi-public chief's house platforms, public temple platforms, mortuary platforms, charnel house platforms, earth lodge / town house platforms, residence platforms, square ground and rotunda platforms, and dance platforms.

The name Poznań probably comes from a personal name Poznan ( from the Polish participle poznan ( y ) – " one who is known / recognized ") and would mean " Poznan's town ".

* Evergreen Cemetery – Located on the south side of town, there are over 50, 000 people interred ; it is the home of the infamous tall " Jesus with cowboy boots " statue and grave marker, as well as the resting place of banker / philanthropist William J. McDonald, Confederate General / U. S. Senator Sam Bell Maxey, rancher Pitts Chisum, and cotton magnate John J. Culbertson.

The first polo club was established in the town of Silchar in Assam, India, in 1834. There is also a polo ground in chooto jalanga ( irongmara / dwarbond ).

In the Middle Ages, Posada was main town of an historical district called Baronia di Posada or Baronia Alta ( to be distinguished from Baronia Bassa or Baronia di Orosei / Galtelli '), on the Tyrrhenian coast of the island.

La Heutte is located in the lower part of Vallon de Saint-Imier, from the town of Bienne.

* A locality in the town of Monteggio in Switzerland

* 1356 – Basel earthquake, the most significant historic seismological event north of the Alps, destroys the town of Basel, Switzerland.

* 1806 – A massive landslide destroys the town of Goldau, Switzerland, killing 457.

The settlers displace the native town of Chattoka and found New Bern, named for von Graffenried's hometown of Bern, Switzerland.

Gruyères is a town in the district of Gruyère in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland.

The sport of luge, like the skeleton and the bobsleigh, originated in the health-spa town of St Moritz, Switzerland, in the mid-to-late 19th century, through the endeavours of hotel entrepreneur Caspar Badrutt.

The beginnings of the Bobsleigh were humble, starting when English tourists were enticed to stay over the winter in the mineral spa town of St. Moritz, Switzerland by the successful marketing of hotelier Caspar Badrutt.

Gruyère ( or ; ) is a hard yellow cheese, named after the town of Gruyères in Switzerland, and originated in the cantons of Fribourg, Vaud, Neuchâtel, Jura, and Berne.

Its location on the edge of central Switzerland made Zug a confessional border town.

At the end of World War II, after passing through Como on his escape towards Switzerland, Benito Mussolini was taken prisoner and then shot by partisans in Giulino di Mezzegra, a small town on the north shores of Como Lake.

He then moved to the then German town of Breslau, and later to Zürich in Switzerland.

The falls are located on the Upper Rhine between the municipalities of Neuhausen am Rheinfall and Laufen-Uhwiesen, near the town of Schaffhausen in northern Switzerland, between the cantons of Schaffhausen and Zürich.

Now moving from town to town throughout Switzerland, he and Baudouin found themselves very much exposed to all the distresses of extended travelling.

The county was named after its county seat, which in turn was named after Geneva, New York which was named after Geneva, Switzerland, by Walter H. Yonge, an early town resident and Swiss native.

In Switzerland, single majorities are sufficient at the town, city, and canton level, but at the national level, double majorities are required on constitutional matters.

The town, nestled as it is in the hilly, wooded lake district of Holstein Switzerland ( Holsteinische Schweiz ), also has importance in the tourism industry.

The town enjoys regular-interval train services to Lindau and Ulm, as well as to Basel in Switzerland.

The town was named after a village in Switzerland.

Patriot is a town in Posey Township, Switzerland County, Indiana, along the Ohio River.

Vevay ( ) is a town in and the county seat of Jefferson Township, Switzerland County, Indiana, United States, along the Ohio River.

The town was first granted in 1764 by Colonial Governor Benning Wentworth as Franconia, a name widely applied to the region by 1760 due to the terrain's resemblance to the Franconian Switzerland in the region of Franconia in Germany.

They named the town after Bern, the capital of Switzerland.

In the first decade of the 1800s pioneer Swiss farm families began to arrive in the west end of town, and on March 2, 1825, they dedicated their village as Basil ( a misspelling of Basel, Switzerland ).