Although the name suggests that they are located in the Bernese Oberland region of the canton of Bern, portions of the Bernese Alps are in the adjacent cantons of Valais, Lucerne, Obwalden, Fribourg and Vaud.

Lucerne, Uri and Unterwalden supported the Upper Valais rebels, while Bern supported the noble Raron family.

The longest land tunnel in the world, the Lötschberg Base Tunnel, is in operation since late 2007, connecting by rail the town of Frutigen in canton Bern, with the town of Visp in canton Valais / Wallis.

The Jungfrau ( German: " maiden / virgin ") is one of the main summits in the Bernese Alps, situated between the cantons of Valais and Bern in Switzerland.

* 3xxx-Region Bern / Upper Valais

The Jungfraujoch is a col or saddle between the Mönch and the Jungfrau in the Bernese Alps on the boundary between the cantons of Bern and Valais, inside the Jungfrau-Aletsch Protected Area.

It is part of the AlpTransit project, also known as the New Railway Link through the Alps ( NRLA ), which includes the Lötschberg Base Tunnel between the cantons of Bern and Valais and the under construction Ceneri Base Tunnel ( scheduled to open late 2019 ) to the south.

The Gletscherhorn ( 3, 983 m ) is a mountain of the Bernese Alps, located on the border between the Swiss cantons of Bern and Valais.

A first clash between Bern and the Vier Waldstätten over the Raron conflict ( Bern supported the barons of Raron, while the forest cantons sided with the Sieben Zenden ) in the upper Valais was barely avoided.

When Francesco II Sforza died in Milan in 1534, the duke's troops were bound by the French engagement there, and Bern promptly conquered the Vaud and, together with the Valais, also territories south of Lake Geneva in 1536.

After the treaty of Lausanne of 1564, Bern had to return the Chablais south of Lake Geneva and the Pays de Gex ( between Geneva and Nyon ) to Savoy in 1567, and the Valais returned the territories west of Saint Gingolph two years later in the treaty of Thonon.

It connects the valley of the Rhone River in the canton of Valais and the Haslital ( upper valley of the Aar river ) in the canton of Bern.

The Pass is often closed from October through until late June due to deep snow cover, however snow ploughs try to keep it open to allow access from Valais to Bern cantons and so that the Hotel Grimselblick can remain occupied.

It also cuts down travel time for German tourists going to Swiss ski resorts and puts the Valais into commuting distance to Bern by reducing travel time by 50 %.

Andermatt serves as a crossroads between southern Switzerland and the North as well as between eastern Switzerland i. e. Graubünden / Grisons and Western Switzerland, i. e. Valais, Bern and the Swiss Romande.

Gemmi Pass is a high mountain pass across the Bernese Alps connecting Leukerbad ( on the south ) in the canton of Valais with Kandersteg ( on the north ) in the canton of Bern.

They took most of the books and manuscripts to Zürich and Bern.

When the edition of the acts of the colloquy, as prepared by Jakob Andrea, was published, Samuel Huber, of Burg near Bern, who belonged to the Lutheranizing faction of the Swiss clergy, took so great offense at the supralapsarian doctrine of predestination propounded at Mömpelgard by Beza and Musculus that he felt it to be his duty to denounce Musculus to the magistrates of Bern as an innovator in doctrine.

However, Stumpf went over to the Protestants, was present at the great Disputation in Bern ( 1528 ), and took part in the first Kappel War ( 1529 ).

In January 1528 Oecolampadius and Zwingli took part in the disputation at Bern which led to the adoption of the new faith in that canton, and in the following year to the discontinuance of the Mass at Basel.

Born in Ins as the son of veterinarian Samuel Anker ( then a member of the constituent assembly of the Canton of Bern ), Anker attended school in Neuchâtel, where he and Auguste Bachelin, later a fellow artist, took early drawing lessons with Louis Wallinger in 1845 – 48.

From 1952, Houtermans took a position as ordinarius professor of physics at the University of Bern.

Bern took over the entire Saanen valley in the following year and introduced the Protestant Reformation.

After this, he was the conductor for Radio Zurich until 1967, when he took over the Bern Symphony Orchestra from Paul Kletzki, where he stayed for eleven years.

Bern, which had not participated in the Sempach war, took the opportunity and began its conquest of what would become the canton of Bern, sending military expeditions into the Jura, the Oberland, Emmental and Aargau.

* New Bern District: Richard Cogdell, elected treasurer for the New Bern district ; Richard Dobbs Spaight elected to replace Cogdell, took office October 18, 1779

Her mother, Anne-Marie Walder, took her to Bern where she moved to work as a housekeeper for Dr. Philippe Curtius ( 1741 – 1794 ).

They were then ordered to join General Lawrence Branch's Brigade at New Bern, and took the cannons with them as they marched out of Swansboro.

He was born in Olten, and studied science and history at the University of Bern, then later took courses in Oriental studies at Munich University and the Sorbonne.

John Lawson took them to a site at the junction of the Trent and Neuse Rivers, which they named New Bern.

Bern, however, refused to tolerate this gradual expansion of power on the part of its subject territory and ultimately took possession of the titles itself.

Sprenger took a position as professor of oriental languages at the University of Bern in 1857, moving in 1881 to Heidelberg.

He was born in Bern, descended of an old Bernese family and, as far as can be ascertained, took clerical orders and became a monk ; yet as it appears that he subsequently married, it is certain that he received the tonsure only, and was thus entitled to the benefit of the clerici uxoriati, who, on divesting themselves of the clerical garb, could return to secular life.

The Grand Prix of Bern took place at Bremgarten from 1931 to 1937 and also in 1947 and 1948.

In August 1931 the Bern ( Swiss ) Grand Prix took place and the Irish motorcyclist Stanley Woods won the 500cc event on a Norton.

The group's origin lay in Einstein's need to offer private lessons in mathematics and physics in order to make a living ( in 1901, before he took up his post at the patent office in Bern ).

It took about six years before Confederation mediation was able to resolve the arguments between Saanen and Bern.

Charles ' involvement west of the Rhine gave him no reason to attack the confederates as Sigismund had wanted, but his embargo politics against the cities of Basel, Strasbourg, and Mulhouse, directed by his reeve Peter von Hagenbach, prompted these to turn to Bern for help.

The northern part, the so-called Unteren Freie Ämter ( lower Freie Ämter ), which included the districts of Boswil ( in part ) and Hermetschwil and the Niederamt, were ruled by Zurich, Bern and Glarus.

Veròna ); German Bern, Dietrichsbern or Welschbern ) is a city in the Veneto, northern Italy, with approx.

The lands around the northern shore of Lake Geneva and between Lake Neuchatel were the next area that Bern expanded into.

This left Brugg in a predicament as its periphery and forest on the Bruggerburg along the northern bank of the Aare remained outside of the jurisdiction of Bern.