Although Ćiro achieved some memorable victories with Neuchâtel against Swiss powerhouses FC Basel and FC Zurich, they finished the season in 9th place ( in a 10-club league ) and went to relegation playoff.

In 1431 he was deputed by John II, king of Castile, to attend the council of Basel, in which he made himself conspicuous by his learning.

Lobbying at the 1995 Basel conference by LDCs, Greenpeace and key European countries such as Denmark, led to a decision to adopt the Basel Ban Amendment to the Basel Convention.

* Introductory note to the Basel Convention by Dr. Katharina Kummer Peiry, Executive Secretary of the Basel Convention, UNEP on the website of the UN Audiovisual Library of International Law

In addition the Theater Basel was chosen in 1999 as the best stage for German-language performances and in 2009 & 2010 as " Opera of the Year " by German Opera Magazine " Opernwelt ".

Since the donation of the Abbey Moutier-Grandvalto and all its possessions to Bishop Adalbero II in 999 till the Reformation, Basel was ruled by prince-bishops ( see Bishop of Basel, whose memory is preserved in the crosier shown on the Basel coat-of-arms – see above ).

In 1225 – 1226 the Bridge over the Rhine was constructed by Bishop Heinrich von Thun and lesser Basel ( Kleinbasel ) founded as a bridgehead to protect the bridge.

At the same time the new craft of printing was introduced to Basel by apprentices of Johann Gutenberg.

Johann Froben also operated his printing house in Basel and was notable for publishing works by Erasmus.

In 1543 De humani corporis fabrica, the first book on human anatomy, was published and printed in Basel by Andreas Vesalius ( 1514 – 1564 ).

Three railway stations — those of the German, French and Swiss networks — lie within the city ( although the Swiss ( Basel SBB ) and French ( Bâle SNCF ) stations are actually in the same complex, separated by Customs and Immigration facilities ).

Basel's local rail services are supplied by the Basel Regional S-Bahn.

The yellow-colored buses and trams are operated by the Baselland Transport ( BLT ), and connect areas in the nearby half-canton of Baselland to central Basel.

The Basel Regional S-Bahn, the commuter rail network connecting to suburbs surrounding the city, is jointly operated by SBB, SNCF and DB.

Within Switzerland, Basel was chosen largely because of its location, with excellent railway connections in all directions, especially important at a time when most international travel was by train.

Carbamazepine was discovered by chemist Walter Schindler at J. R. Geigy AG ( now part of Novartis ) in Basel, Switzerland, in 1953.

There were also painted schemes in Basel ( the earliest dating from c. 1440 ); a series of paintings on canvas by Bernt Notke, in Lübeck ( 1463 ); the initial fragment of the original Bernt Notke painting ( accomplished at the end of the 15th century ) in the St Nicholas ' Church, Tallinn, Estonia ; the painting at the back wall of the chapel of Sv.

His hurried effort was published by his friend Johann Froben of Basel in 1516 and thence became the first published Greek New Testament, the Novum Instrumentum omne, diligenter ab Erasmo Rot.

The sacramentarians, headed by Œcolampadius of Basel, were, as Erasmus says, quoting him as holding views similar to their own in order to try to claim him for their schismatic and " erroneous " movement.

In the banking sector worldwide, the Basel Accords are generally adopted by internationally active banks for tracking, reporting and exposing operational, credit and market risks.

The number of ratification for the entry-into force of the Ban Amendment is under debate: Amendments to the convention enter into force after ratification of " three-fourths of the Parties who accepted them " 17. 5 ; so far, the Parties of the Basel Convention could not yet agree whether this would be three fourth of the Parties that were Party to the Basel Convention when the Ban was adopted, or three fourth of the current Parties of the ConventionReport of COP 9 of the Basel Convention.

The Basel region, culturally extending into German Baden-Württemberg and French Alsace, reflects the heritage of its three states in the modern Latin name: " Regio TriRhena ".

After three years of political agitation and a short civil war in 1833 the disadvantaged countryside seceded from the Canton of Basel, forming the half canton of Basel-Landschaft.

The high-speed services linking Zurich, Bern and Basel in Switzerland have brought the Central Business Districts ( CBDs ) of these three cities within 1 hour of each other.

After three years in Basel, he stayed a short time in Bern with the humanist, Henry Wölfflin.

The Canon of Medicine, the standard medical textbook that Paracelsus burned in a public bonfire three weeks after being appointed professor at the University of Basel, also described the use of opium, though many Latin translations were of poor quality.

In the 16th Century the town walls were reinforced with the Basel gate and three round towers.

The youngest reported age for giving birth is a pygmy hippo in the Zoo Basel, Switzerland which bore a calf at three years and three months.

In 1620 they moved back to Basel, but three years later returned to Frankfurt.

The fact that three nation-states come together in one spot near Basel ( Dreiländereck ) attracts some tourists.

He acted for three years as pastor in Bruchsal, and was then called to the cathedral church of Basel ( 1515 ).

Ketenensis ' work was republished in 1543 in three editions by Theodor Bibliander at Basel along with Cluni corpus and other Christian propaganda.

The Aare valley was bordered by three dioceses ; Lausanne, Constance and Basel.

# Expugnatione Scodrensi a Turcis, published in three volumes in Venice in 1504 and reprinted in Basel in 1556, translated in Italian as " Storia dell ' origine et imperio de Turchi " and in French.

The Bernoulli family from Basel is known for their significant contributions to mathematics over a time span of three generations.

Basel were then drawn into a ' death group ' of Group D alongside SK Brann, Dinamo Zagreb, Hamburger SV and Rennes, all of which were ranked within the top three of their own leagues at the start of the stage.

The game was drawn 3: 3 and Yakin gave all three assists as Basel cruised to a 3: 0 half time lead as they qualified, one point above Liverpool, for the 2002 – 03 UEFA Champions League second group stage.

Together with the city of Basel and Bettingen, Riehen is one of three municipalities in the canton.

In the various controversies into which he was drawn, Beza often showed an excess of irritation and intolerance, from which Bernardino Ochino, pastor of the Italian congregation at Zurich ( on account of a treatise which contained some objectionable points on polygamy ), and Sebastian Castellio at Basel ( on account of his Latin and French translations of the Bible ) had especially to suffer.

Abandoned by a number of his cardinals, condemned by most of the powers, deprived of his dominions by condottieri who shamelessly invoked the authority of the council, the pope made concession after concession, and ended on 15 December 1433 with a pitiable surrender of all the points at issue in a Papal bull, the terms of which were dictated by the fathers of Basel, that is, by declaring his bull of dissolution null and void, and recognising that the synod as legitimately assembled throughout.

Basel did not retain their title the next season despite finishing with the same amount of points as the winners, Grasshopper Club Zürich, who won it on head-to-head.

Basel were now sitting in second place in the group but they would still need to win at least one of their last two games and hope that Liverpool would not pick up more than two points to secure that place.

Despite picking up the same number of points as second placed Juventus, Basel crashed out on goal difference.

Before the last round of the 2005 – 06 Swiss Super League, Zürich were three points behind Basel in the league table.

Zwingli, who had studied in Basel while Erasmus had been there, had arrived at a more radical renewal than Luther and his ideas differed from the latter in several points.