Albanian asphalt from Selenice in Southern Albania is well known for its durability as it has been used on some Swiss motorways.

Bringing in the German ' Southern Army ', General von Manteuffel then drove Bourbaki's army into the mountains near the Swiss border.

; 1800s: Southern German and Swiss German immigrants who became known as the Pennsylvania Dutch introduced soft pretzels and pretzel bakery businesses.

Pumping ( tech ) house is another, much more successful subgenre of tech that originated in Southern Europe when a trio called " The Biz ", consisting of the Italian DJ Benny Benassi and two Swiss / French singers created a hit " Satisfaction " in late 2002.

* Swiss delegate to the European Southern Observatory ( ESO ) Council, 2003 – 2007

It was discovered by French and Swiss astronomers of the European Southern Observatory, namely Roser Pelló, Johan Richard, Jean-François Le Borgne, Daniel Schaerer, and Jean-Paul Kneib.

While only the 41st state to enter the union ( 1889 ) and only 44th in population ( 4 Western and 2 Eastern states have fewer people ), the state is very diverse in its European-descended population ; Cornish, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, French-Canadian, Norwegian, Faroese, Finnish, Slovak, Serbian, Luxembourgish, Northern and Southern Italian, Ashkenazi Jewish, Cajun, Swiss German, and Basque are just some of the ethnicities / nationalities of Europeans who settled in the territory, and then state.

The Swiss Euler 1. 2m Telescope and the Mercator Telescope were part of the Southern Sky extrasolar Planet search Programme which has discovered numerous extrasolar planets.

Some of the French dialects spoken in the French and Swiss Alps derive from Old Provençal ; the German dialects derive from Germanic tribal languages.

Today, Alemannic is a linguistic term, referring to Alemannic German, encompassing the dialects of the southern two thirds of Baden-Württemberg ( German State ), in western Bavaria ( German State ), in Vorarlberg ( Austrian State ), Swiss German in Switzerland and the Alsatian language of the Alsace ( France ).

Nevertheless, there was also a migratory flow of German, Swiss, and Middle-Eastern immigrants arriving in Argentina.

In 1919 Swiss painter Johannes Itten, German-American painter Lyonel Feininger, and German sculptor Gerhard Marcks, along with Gropius, comprised the faculty of the Bauhaus.

By the following year their ranks had grown to include German painter, sculptor and designer Oskar Schlemmer who headed the theater workshop, and Swiss painter Paul Klee, joined in 1922 by Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky.

The centre was formed by the mass of Dutch, German, Protestant Swiss and Scottish infantry – perhaps 30, 000 men – facing Offus and Ramillies.

Located where the Swiss, French and German borders meet, Basel also has suburbs in France and Germany.

The local variant of the Swiss German dialects is called Basel German.

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 ).

These include the United Church of Canada, and the United Church of Christ., all German Lutheran, reformed and united churches in EKD, all Swiss reformed churches, the Protestant Church in the Netherlands, the Church of Denmark, the Church of Sweden, the Church of Iceland and the Church of Norway.

In Russian and Swiss German, for example, the verb " to call ( by telephone )" is always followed by a noun in the dative.

Some publishers design games that contain instructions and game elements in more than one language, e. g. the game Ursuppe comes with rules and cards in both German and English ; Khronos features instructions in French, English, and German, and a Swiss game, Enchanted Owls, provides French, German, Italian, and Romansh rules.

High German in this broader sense can be subdivided into Upper German ( Oberdeutsch, this includes the Austrian and Swiss German dialects ), Central German ( Mitteldeutsch, this includes Luxembourgish, which is now a standardized language ), and High Franconian which is a transitional dialect between the two.

Now, however, the Jewish conspiracy is intended to " shake down " ( his favorite phrase ) such innocent entities as Swiss banks, German corporations and East European owners of looted Jewish property, all in order to consolidate Jewish power and influence without giving the real survivors of the genocide anything but empty rhetoric.

On the issue of reparations, he barely acknowledges the wrongs committed by the Swiss and German institutions — the burying of Jewish bank accounts, the use of slave labor — that gave rise to the recent reparations drive.

This was, in fact, Swiss Reformed theologian, Karl Barth's, understanding of the doctrine of election.

Originally called " Geneva Hall ", the college was named after the Swiss center of the Reformed faith movement.

Presbyterianism was especially influenced by the French / Swiss theologian, John Calvin, who is credited with the development of Reformed theology and the work of John Knox, a Scotsman who studied with Calvin in Geneva, Switzerland and brought his teachings back to Scotland.

Presbyterian heritage, and much of what they believe, began with the Swiss / French theologian and lawyer John Calvin ( 1509 – 64 ), whose writings solidified much of the Reformed thinking that came before him.

From the, 1, 261 or 81. 6 % were Roman Catholic, while 92 or 6. 0 % belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church.

* January 5 – Felix Manz, co-founder of the Swiss Anabaptists, is drowned in the Limmat in Zürich by the Zürich Reformed state church.

His father was a poor rural pastor in the Swiss Reformed Church, while his mother came from a wealthy and established Swiss family.

The religious buildings on the list are ; the Visitation Convent, the Jesuit Church with Kollegium ( Lapidarium ), the Swiss Reformed Church on Westringstrasse and the St. Ursen Cathedral.

From the, 5, 463 or 35. 3 % were Roman Catholic, while 4, 358 or 28. 1 % belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church.

From the, 8, 557 or 38. 1 % were Roman Catholic, while 6, 438 or 28. 7 % belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church.

It is strongly associated with French, Dutch, Swiss and Scottish Reformation movements, and the Reformed and Presbyterian churches.

* Karl Barth, ( 1886-1968 ) seminal Swiss Reformed Theologian.

* Roger Nicole, Swiss Reformed theologian

From the, 14, 713 or 44. 6 % are Roman Catholic, while 12, 199 or 37. 0 % belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church.

, 27. 4 % of the population belonged to the Roman Catholic Church and 43. 6 % belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church.

From the, 1, 549 or 36. 6 % were Roman Catholic, while 1, 309 or 30. 9 % belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church.

From the, 3, 641 or 28. 2 % were Roman Catholic, while 5, 626 or 43. 5 % belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church.

Even though Zwingli died in battle in 1531, the canton remained a stronghold of the Swiss Reformed Church over the following centuries.

From the, 380, 440 or 30. 5 % were Roman Catholic, while 497, 986 or 39. 9 % belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church.

From the, 47 % were some type of Protestant, with 45. 9 % belonging to the Swiss Reformed Church and 1. 1 % belonging to other Protestant churches.