Bern invaded and conquered Aargau in 1415 and Vaud in 1536, as well as other smaller territories, thereby becoming the largest city-state north of the Alps, by the 18th century comprising most of what is today the canton of Bern and the canton of Vaud.

They once had claims on the modern canton of Vaud, where they occupied the Château of Chillon in Switzerland, but their access to it was cut by Geneva during the Protestant Reformation, after which it was conquered by Bern.

When the canton of Vaud was conquered by Bern in 1536, Aubonne came under Bernese domination, but still belonged to the Count of Greyerz until 1553.

Lenzburg was conquered by Bern in 1415, along with the western part of current Aargau, though Bern did not take away its city rights.

The same year, Bern conquered the hitherto Savoyard Vaud and also instituted Protestantism there.

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 Bern conquered Vaud in 1536, Saubraz shared in the fate of Aubonne and 1701 it became a part of the Aubonne administrative district.

After the Habsburg dynasty had lost large parts of its original Swabian possessions south of the Rhine to the Swiss Confederacy at the 1386 Battle of Sempach, the remaining Fricktal was administered from the Oberamt Breisgau of Further Austria ( Vorderösterreich ) at Freiburg, while the adjacent Unteraargau region to the south was finally conquered by the Swiss at Bern in 1415.

In Switzerland, the range covers the western border with France in the Cantons of Basel, Solothurn, Jura, Bern ( i. e., Bernese Jura ), Neuchâtel, Vaud, and the border with Germany in the canton of Schaffhausen.

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.

The southern part, the Oberen Freie Ämter ( upper Freie Ämter ), were ruled by the previous seven cantons but Bern was added to make an eighth.

** The Canton of Jura comes into existence as the twenty-sixth canton of Switzerland, being formed from the predominantly French-speaking Catholic part of the Canton of Bern.

After the alliance with Bern in 1295, it became part of the Swiss Confederation.

Pamlico County is part of the New Bern, North Carolina, Micropolitan Statistical Area.

Jones County is part of the New Bern, North Carolina, Micropolitan Statistical Area.

Craven County is part of the New Bern, North Carolina, Micropolitan Statistical Area.

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 ).

The town of Berne ( originally spelled " Bern ") was created in 1795 from part of the town of Rensselaerville.

Morehead City is part of the Greenville – New Bern – Jacksonville Designated market area, which is the 109th largest in 2007 ( according to Nielsen Media Research ).

It is part of the New Bern, North Carolina Micropolitan Statistical Area.

It is part of the New Bern, North Carolina Micropolitan Statistical Area.

It is part of the New Bern, North Carolina Micropolitan Statistical Area.

It is part of the New Bern, North Carolina Micropolitan Statistical Area.

It is part of the New Bern, North Carolina Micropolitan Statistical Area.

Havelock is part of the New Bern, North Carolina Micropolitan Statistical Area.

It is part of the New Bern, North Carolina Micropolitan Statistical Area.

It is part of the New Bern, North Carolina Micropolitan Statistical Area.

It is part of the New Bern, North Carolina Micropolitan Statistical Area.

It is part of the New Bern, North Carolina Micropolitan Statistical Area.

It is part of the New Bern, North Carolina Micropolitan Statistical Area.

It is part of the New Bern, North Carolina Micropolitan Statistical Area.

It is part of the New Bern, North Carolina Micropolitan Statistical Area.

Trenton is part of the New Bern, North Carolina Micropolitan Statistical Area.

In 1415 Bern invaded lower Aargau with the help of Solothurn.

Shortly thereafter in 1415, Bern and the rest of the Swiss Confederation used the ban as a pretext to invade Aargau.

Bern used the Aargau bailiwicks mostly as a source of grain for the rest of the city-state.

Zschokke retired from public life when the central government at Bern proposed to re-establish the federal system, but after the changes effected by Napoleon Bonaparte he entered the service of the canton of Aargau, with which he remained connected.

East of the canton of Bern lie the cantons of Uri, Nidwalden, Obwalden, Lucerne and Aargau.

The ensuing conflict with the Old Swiss Confederacy ( known as the Burgdorferkrieg or Kyburgerkrieg ) allowed Bern to move against the Habsburgs in Aargau.

While Bern was not involved at Sempach they used the Austrian weakness to march into the Oberland in 1386, followed by the Seeland ( the region south of the Jura Mountains containing the Morat ( Murten ), Neuchâtel and Bienne ( Biel ) lakes ) in 1388 and the Aargau in 1389.

To the west and south lies the canton of Bern, to the east is Aargau.

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.

After publishing a proclamation on October 26, Dufour appointed as division commanders: Peter Ludwig von Donatz ( Grisons ), Johannes Burckhardt and Eduard Ziegler ( Aargau ) from among the Conservatives and Louis Rilliet de Constant ( Vaud ), Dominik Gmür, Giacomo Luvini ( Ticino ) and Ochsenbein ( Bern ) from among the Radicals.

Starting with the conquest of the Aargau in 1415 by Bern, until the French conquest and creation of the Helvetic Republic in 1798, the rights to high and low justice were held by the bailiff in Lenzburg.

The town and the Eigenamt, in turn, found themselves in the northeastern-most section of Bern ’ s subject territories, known as Bernese Aargau.

In the Diet, six cantons which had a population of more than 100, 000 ( Bern, Zurich, Vaud, St Gallen, Graubünden and Aargau ) were given two votes, the others having but one apiece.

Mind, in his eighth year, was placed at the academy for poor children, which Pestalozzi had previously instituted at Neuenhof, near Bern, Aargau.

In 1432, after the conquest of the neighbouring Aargau, Aarwangen Castle was purchased by the city of Bern, which then acquired the remainder of the former Grünenberg estate, including the area of the current district of Aarwangen, in 1480.

* Anti-Catholic laws in the Swiss Cantons of Solothurn, Bern, Basel-Landschaft, Aargau and Zurich.

Entirely situated within the Swiss Plateau are the cantons of Zurich, Thurgau and Geneva ; mostly situated within the Swiss Plateau are the cantons of Lucerne, Aargau, Solothurn, Bern, Fribourg and Vaud ; small portions of the Swiss Plateau are situated in the cantons of Neuchâtel, Zug, Schwyz, St. Gallen and Schaffhausen.