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The Aar ( German Aare ), a tributary of the High Rhine, is the longest river that both rises and ends entirely within Switzerland.
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Aar and German
It comes, along with the name of the River Aar ( which was called Arula, Arola, and Araris in early times ), from the German Au, meaning floodplain.
Some historians and linguists believe the name may come from the Middle High German word ' hab / hap ' meaning ford, as it is located near a ford of the Aar River.
Aar and Aare
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From here the Aar flows northeast for a long distance, past the ambassador town Solothurn ( below which the Grosse Emme flows in on the right ), Aarburg ( where it is joined by the Wigger ), Olten, Aarau, near which is the junction with the Suhre, and Wildegg, where the Hallwiler Aa falls in on the right.
The western, larger part is named Langeraar ( Long Aar ), the eastern part Korteraar ( Short Aar ).
It is located where the River Aar flows out of Lake Thun ( Thunersee ), 30 km south of Bern.
Methuen could also call on the 3rd ( Highland ) Brigade under Maj-Gen Andrew Wauchope ( diverted from 2nd Division ), in reserve at De Aar.
* Aar ( Lahn ), a tributary of Lahn river in Germany, descending from the Taunus mountains
* Aar ( Dill ), a tributary of Dill river, also in the basin of the Lahn
* Aar ( Netherlands ), a river in South Holland
* Aar ( Bas-Rhin ), a very small river in Alsace ( France )
* Cannon, Katie G. Black Womanist Ethics ( Aar Academy Series ), An American Academy of Religion Book, 1988.
He composed music for Guru Dutt's Aar Paar ( 1954 ), Mr. & Mrs. ' 55 ( 1955 ), C. I. D.
The Koblenz Aar railway bridge ( shared with Leuggern ), the Koblenz – Waldshut Rhine railway bridge and the Kleiner Laufen, a portion of the Roman Rhine fortifications are listed as Swiss heritage sites of national significance.
Among his other works are Det hvide Hus ( The White House, 1898 ), Excentriske Noveller ( Eccentric Stories, 1885 ), Stille Eksistenser ( Quiet Existences, 1886 ), Liv og Død ( Life and Death, 1899 ), Englen Michael ( The Angel Michael, 1902 ), a volume of poems ( 1889 ), and recollections, Ti Aar ( Ten Years, 1891 ).
Aar and tributary
The Bernese Alps are drained by the river Aar and its tributary Saane in the north, the Rhône in the south and the Reuss in the east.
* Aar, a river in Switzerland, tributary of the Rhine
It is a tributary of the river Aar.
Aar and Rhine
The convergence of the Aar and the Rhine at Koblenz
With a length of and a drainage basin of, it is the fourth largest river in Switzerland ( after the Rhine, Aar and Rhone ).
After the confluence the river continues as the Aar, which flows into the Rhine, which runs through Germany into the North Sea.
Two road and railway bridges each cross the Aar and the Rhine.
* Koblenz, Switzerland, a municipality in Canton Aargau at the confluence of the Rhine and Aar
In the Early Middle Ages, Fricktal was part of the Alamannian Augstgau shire between the Rhine and Aar rivers, from the 10th century onwards of the smaller Frickgau region within Upper Burgundy.
Aar and is
Aarau is situated on the Swiss plateau, in the valley of the Aar, on the river's right bank, and at the southern foot of the Jura mountains, and is west of Zurich.
The old city of Aarau is situated on a rocky outcrop at a narrowing of the Aar river valley, at the southern foot of the Jura mountains.
Approximately nine tenths of the city is south of the Aar, and one tenth is to the north.
The lowest elevation,, is found at the banks of the Aar, and the highest elevation, at, is the Hungerberg on the border with Küttigen.
The surface of the country is beautifully diversified, undulating tracts and well-wooded hills alternating with fertile valleys watered mainly by the Aar and its tributaries.
His monument is a boulder selected from the moraine of the glacier of the Aar near the site of the old Hôtel des Neuchâtelois, not far from the spot where his hut once stood ; and the pine-trees that shelter his grave were sent from his old home in Switzerland.
The Rhône valley separates them from the Chablais Alps in the west and from the Pennine Alps in the south ; the upper Rhône valley separate them from the Lepontine Alps in the south-east ; the Grimsel Pass and the Aar valley separates them from the Urner Alps in the east ; their northern edge is not so well defined, describing a line roughly from Lake Geneva to Lake Lucerne.
Image: Ltspkr. pngTer Aar is a town and former municipality in the western Netherlands, in the province of South Holland.
The area of Ter Aar is divided into two parts by the small canal De Aar.
The current village of Ter Aar is built around these two former villages.
In India it is called as " Aar Ghodi Ki Par Ghodi " ( meaning " horseleap ").
It is located above the Aar valley, directly east of the Wüpelsbergs, on which the castle is located.
It is a huge limestone buttress, projecting from the granitic mass of the Mönch across the Eigerjoch, and the glaciers on either flank feed two branches of the same stream — the Lütschine — that flow together to the Aar.
Aar and river
Between Innertkirchen and Meiringen, the river carves through a limestone ridge in the Aar Gorge or Aareschlucht.
Ascending the river and its tributaries, the Aar and the Limmat, he came to the Lake of Zürich.
This occurs because the river Aar (), which drains Lake Thun, has only limited capacity to handle the excess runoff.
Lake Brienz is the first lake in which river Aar () expands.
Thus all three lakes form a natural reservoir in order to retain overflow water from the river Aar that flows into Lake Bienne: in times of combined heavy rainfalls and glacier
In Alphen aan den Rijn, the Aar Canal ends in the Oude Rijn at the same location where the river Gouwe branches off to the south.
The well-to-do patrician family originally established themselves in the neighborhood of Bern at the time of the founding of the city on the Aar river in 1191 by Berchtold V, Duke of Zaringen.
Approximately 15 km west of Bern, the river flows into the Aar.
The municipality is located on the right bank of the Aar river.
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 lake with a surface of 1. 16 km² was formed at the construction of a power plant on the Aar river in the 1930s.
Der Bund also quoted a retired official of the city's surveying office as saying that the gold vaults take up an area of roughly half the Federal Square and have a depth of dozens of meters, down to the level of the Aar river.
Busswil is located at old Aar river, the part of the Aar river that still flows from Aarberg to Büren after the river was corrected.
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