* S-Bahn, the combined city center and suburban railway system metro in Austria, Germany, Switzerland and Denmark

During the Middle Ages, there were various systems involving elections or assemblies, although often only involving a small amount of the population, the election of Gopala in Bengal region of Indian Subcontinent, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth ( 10 % of population ), the Althing in Iceland, the Løgting in the Faeroe Islands, certain medieval Italian city-states such as Venice, the tuatha system in early medieval Ireland, the Veche in Novgorod and Pskov Republics of medieval Russia, Scandinavian Things, The States in Tirol and Switzerland and the autonomous merchant city of Sakai in the 16th century in Japan.

Geneva (;, ;, ) is the second most populous city in Switzerland ( after Zurich ) and is the most populous city of Romandy, the French-speaking part of Switzerland.

Other local stations broadcast from the city, including YesFM ( FM 91. 8 MHz ), Radio Cité ( Non-commercial radio, FM 92. 2 MHz ), OneFM ( FM 107. 0 MHz, also broadcast in Vaud ), and World Radio Switzerland ( FM 88. 4 MHz ).

He was born as Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris in La Chaux-de-Fonds, a small city in Neuchâtel canton in north-western Switzerland, in the Jura mountains, just across the border from France.

Lausanne () is a city in Romandy, the French-speaking part of Switzerland, and is the capital of the canton of Vaud.

Lausanne became the first city in Switzerland to have a rubber-tyred metro system, with the m2 Line which opened in October 2008.

The traditional listing order of the cantons of Switzerland reflects this state, listing the eight " Old Cantons " first, with the city states preceding the founding cantons, followed by cantons that joined the Confederation after 1481, in historical order.

The Abbey of Saint Gall () is a religious complex in the city of St. Gallen in present-day Switzerland.

In 1543, Vesalius conducted a public dissection of the body of Jakob Karrer von Gebweiler, a notorious felon from the city of Basel, Switzerland.

Zurich ( German: Zürich, ; Swiss German: Züri ) is the largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zurich.

* August 3 – In Switzerland, troops of the city of Basel march on rebels in Liestal, but are beaten back at the Battle of Hülftenschanz.

* Claudius founds the city Forum Claudii Vallensium ( modern Martigny ) in the Alpes Poeninae ( Switzerland ).

* The city of Oberglatt ( present-day Switzerland ) is first mentioned in written literature.

They maintain a website with many translated IWW documents and 16 city contacts in Germany, Switzerland and Austria as of May ' 09.

Panettone ( pronounced ) is a type of sweet bread loaf originally from Milan ( in Milanese it is called " paneton " Milanese dialect ( pronunciation IPA: / paneˈtuŋ /)), usually prepared and enjoyed for Christmas and New Year in Italy, southeastern France, Brazil, Peru, Malta, Germany and Switzerland, and is one of the symbols of the city of Milan.

* The town of Biel / Bienne, Switzerland finalizes its alliance with the city of Bern.

* October 18 – The Basel earthquake destroys the city of Basel in Switzerland.

* Duke Berthold V of Zähringen founds the city of Bern ( present-day Switzerland ).

He appeared at Montreux Jazz Festival, Montreux, Switzerland, with vibraphonist Gary Burton in July 1986 and on 6 September 1987 gave a concert in New York ’ s Central Park, in the city where he spent his childhood.

* He married, on October 9, 1944, in Geneva, Switzerland, Yvonne Blanche Labrousse ( February 15, 1906-July 1, 2000 ).

* 1988 – In a United Nations ceremony in Geneva, Switzerland, the Soviet Union signs an agreement pledging to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan.

Aalto also entered several architectural competitions for prestigious state public buildings, both in Finland and abroad, including the two competitions for the Finnish Parliamentary building in 1923 and 1924, the extension to the University of Helsinki in 1931, and the building to house the League of Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1926-27.

A 2008 quantum physics experiment performed in Geneva, Switzerland has determined that in any hypothetical nonlocal hidden-variables theory the speed of the quantum non-local connection would have to be at least 10, 000 times the speed of light.

Piron was a psychotherapist and taught from 1973 to 1994 in the psychology department at the University of Geneva in Switzerland.

Bowie moved to Switzerland in 1976, purchasing a chalet in the hills to the north of Lake Geneva.

On September 22, 2011, a paper from the OPERA Collaboration indicated detection of 17 and 28 GeV muon neutrinos, sent 730 kilometers ( 454 miles ) from CERN near Geneva, Switzerland to the Gran Sasso National Laboratory in Italy, traveling faster than light by a factor of 2. 48 × 10 < sup >− 5 </ sup > ( approximately 1 in 40, 000 ), a statistic with 6. 0-sigma significance.

Firmin Abauzit ( 1679 – 1767 ) was a French scholar who worked on physics, theology and philosophy, and served as librarian in Geneva ( Switzerland ) during his final 40 years.

In 2007, the urban area, or agglomération franco-valdo-genevoise ( Great Geneva or Grand Genève in French ) had 1, 240, 000 inhabitants in 189 municipalities in both Switzerland and France.

A hydraulic power network was also developed in Geneva, Switzerland.

ITU-T has a permanent secretariat, the Telecommunication Standardization Bureau ( TSB ), based at the ITU HQ in Geneva, Switzerland.

The ISO 3166 standard is maintained by the ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency ( ISO 3166 / MA ), located at the ISO central office in Geneva, Switzerland.

The IAEA also has two liaison offices which are located in New York City, United States, and in Geneva, Switzerland.

From August 8 to August 20, 1955, the United Nations held the International Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy in Geneva, Switzerland.

institutes from 157 countries, coordinated through a secretariat in Geneva, Switzerland.

ITU-R has a permanent secretariat, the Radiocommunication Bureau, based at the ITU HQ in Geneva, Switzerland.

On April 23, 2012 at Internet Society's Global INET conference in Geneva, Switzerland, Torvalds was one of the inaugural inductees into the Internet Hall of Fame, one of ten in the Innovators category and thirty-three overall inductees.

On 15 July 2008 the fifth eldest son of Muammar Gaddafi, Hannibal Gaddafi, and his wife were held for two days and charged with assaulting two of their staff in Geneva, Switzerland and then released on bail on 17 July.

The office is headed by the High Commissioner for Human Rights, who co-ordinates human rights activities throughout the UN System and supervises the Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland.

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.

Calvin did most of his writing from Geneva, Switzerland.