Saint Brieuc founded the city that bears his name in Brittany, Saint Colmán founded the great monastery of Bobbio in northern Italy and one of his monks was Saint Gall for whom the Swiss town of St Gallen and canton of St Gallen.

So when Appenzell allied with the Swiss, the town of St. Gallen followed just a few months later.

Both the Abbot and a representative of the town were admitted to the Swiss Tagsatzung or Diet as the closest associates of the Confederation.

The town of Mulhouse joined the Swiss Confederation in 1515, where it was to remain until 1798.

In 1515 Ambrosius lived in the Swiss town of Stein am Rhein, where he helped a Schaffhausen painter named Thomas Schmid with the murals in the main hall of the St George monastery.

The old town was built between 1530 and 1792 and shows an architectural combination of Italian Grandezza, French style and Swiss ideas.

The alpine town of Davos in the Swiss Alps.

Meeting of the international Esperanto leaders, in 1926 in the Swiss town of Locarno ( some months after the famous Locarno Conference of the European political leaders )

The county was named after its county seat, which in turn was named after Geneva, New York which was named after Geneva, Switzerland, by Walter H. Yonge, an early town resident and Swiss native.

With a mean discharge of 165 m³ / s it enters Lake Geneva near the Swiss town of Bouveret and exits it at the city of Geneva before entering France.

To the south, the old town borders onto the Swiss town of Kreuzlingen.

Image: Stumpf-Chronik-Zug. png | The Swiss town of Zug

The town holds the distinction of the having the highest percentage of people with Swiss ancestry, followed by nearby Berne, Indiana, according to the 2000 U. S. Census.

It was named after the Swiss town of Vevey.

Formerly an Indian town named Chattoka, New Bern was settled in 1710 as a Swiss immigrant settlement.

In the first decade of the 1800s pioneer Swiss farm families began to arrive in the west end of town, and on March 2, 1825, they dedicated their village as Basil ( a misspelling of Basel, Switzerland ).

Johnstown was formally organized as a town in 1800 by the Swiss German immigrant Joseph Johns ( born Josef Schantz ).

The town gets its name from its founders, which included William Line ( the grandson of a Swiss immigrant ), who migrated from Carlisle, Pennsylvania circa the early 1820s, and his relative, Amos Line who was the town's surveyor and main proprietor.

The town was part of a greater initiative — conducted by an organization known as the Tennessee Clonisation Gesellschaft — to establish Swiss colonies atop the Cumberland Plateau in Tennessee.

The city is so named because when it was first settled, the Latter-day Saint prophet Brigham Young visited and said the town reminded him of the Swiss Alps.

Midway Swiss Days brings thousands of people to the town.

Swiss is a town in Burnett County in the U. S. state of Wisconsin.

The notion that meringue was invented in the Swiss town of Meiringen and improved by an Italian chef named Gasparini in the 18th century is contested ; the Oxford English Dictionary states that the French word is of unknown origin.

Since 1797, every 22 years, in the Swiss city of Vevey, is celebrated La fête des vignerons The Winegrowers ' Festival.

Nestlé S. A. is a Swiss multinational nutritional and health-related consumer goods company headquartered in Vevey, Switzerland.

After graduating, his father sent him to Bellerive, a school near the Swiss village of Vevey.

the average price to rent an average apartment in Vevey was 1067. 93 Swiss francs ( CHF ) per month ( US $ 850, £ 480, € 680 approx.

There are 14 structures in Vevey that are listed as Swiss heritage site of national significance.

The first meeting took place in the Hotel du Parc in the Swiss village of Mont Pelerin ( Mont-Pèlerin ), near the city of Vevey, Switzerland.

She was born in Vevey, into a Swiss Protestant family who had immigrated to Annecy, but became a Roman Catholic in 1726 to receive a church pension which had been instated to increase the spread of Roman Catholicism near Geneva, then a bastion of Protestantism.

At age 7 he and his two older brothers were sent to the Swiss boarding school La Châtaigneraie, near the home town of his mother, Renée Tapernoux, in Vevey.

Francis Walker was the son of John Walker of Arnos Grove a Fellow of the Royal Society, the Linnean Society and the Royal Horticultural Society. Born into a wealthy and highly educated family Francis spent the years 1816 ( when he was seven years old ) to 1820 ( when he was eleven ) in Switzerland at Geneva, Lucerne and Vevey where the family party was joined by Madame de Staël, the poet Lord Byron and some Swiss naturalists gathered around Nicolas Théodore de Saussure.

* Vevey – Montreux – Chillon tramway, a former tramway in the Swiss canton of Vaud

One of Nikita Khrushchev's most enthusiastic eulogizers, the U.S.S.R.'s daily Izvestia, enterprisingly interviewed Red-prone Comedian Charlie Chaplin at his Swiss villa, where he has been in self-exile since 1952.

The Swiss commanders wired the infrastructure leading into the country, and threatening to destroy bridges, railway tunnels and passes in the event of a Nazi invasion, and then they retreated to the heart of the mountain peaks where conditions were harsher and a military invasion would involve difficult and protracted battles.

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

However, feeling that the lack of sympathy which prevailed at Leuven at that time was actually a form of mental persecution, he sought refuge in Basel, where under the shelter of Swiss hospitality he could express himself freely.

A collective head of state can exist in republics ( internal complexity ): e. g. nominal triumvirates ; the Directoire ; the seven-member Swiss Federal Council, where each member acts in turn as ceremonial chief of state ); Bosnia and Herzegovina ( three member presidium, from three different nations ); San Marino ( two " Captains-regent "), which maintains the tradition of Italian medieval republics, where there always was an even number of consuls.

In the upheaval following the end of the war a disconcerted Pacelli sought Benedict XV's permission to leave Munich, where Kurt Eisner had declared a socialist republic, and he left for a while to Rorschach, and a tranquil Swiss sanatorium run by nuns.

* Switzerland, where the headship of state is collectively vested in the seven-member Swiss Federal Council, although there is also a President of the Confederation, who is a member of the Federal Council elected by the Federal Assembly ( the Swiss Parliament ) for a year ( constitutional convention mandates that the post rotates every New Year's Day ).

On December 16, 2006 he was transferred by the highly specialized, ICU equipped, Swiss Air Ambulance Bombardier Challenger Jet http :// www. rega. ch /, reportedly made possible and organized in a bold and daring action by the Swiss banker, Pascal Najadi, who was able to convince the REGA Flight Operations over the phone from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, ( perhaps because he was an active patron of the REGA Swiss Air Ambulance ) to swiftly approve the decision to fly without any payment guarantees and assemble at highest possible speed within 48 hours the necessary flight plan, specialized doctors, logistics and Vietnam airspace ( Northern Sector ) entry clearances for the Jet to take off from Zurich HQ, via Lahore to Hanoi, then to proceed with the critical patient in full ICU care of specialized Swiss Doctors and immediate family on board, via Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky and Edmonton to Boston, Massachusetts, where the plane was met by US Customs ( thanks to the help of Senator John Kerry ).

* 1920 – Two newly purchased Savoia flying boats crash in the Swiss Alps en-route to Finland where they would serve with the Suomen Ilmavoimat, killing both crews.

As one longtime reader wrote to Yagoda, this was a place ' where Peter DeVries ... was forever lifting a glass of Piesporter, where Niccolò Tucci ( in a plum velvet dinner jacket ) flirted in Italian with Muriel Spark, where Nabokov sipped tawny port from a prismatic goblet ( while a Red Admirable perched on his pinky ), and where John Updike tripped over the master's Swiss shoes, excusing himself charmingly ".

In 1878, the Swiss chemist Jean Charles Galissard de Marignac separated in the rare earth of " erbia " another independent component, which he called " ytterbia ", for Ytterby, the village in Sweden near where he found the new component of erbium.

During the Rococo era Portraiture was an important component of painting in all countries, but especially in Great Britain, where the leaders were William Hogarth ( 1697 – 1764 ), in a blunt realist style, and Francis Hayman ( 1708 – 1776 ), Angelica Kauffman who was Swiss, ( 1741 – 1807 ), Thomas Gainsborough and Joshua Reynolds ( 1723 – 1792 ), in more flattering styles influenced by Antony Van Dyck ( 1599 – 1641 ).

Unable to leave Switzerland, where he and his young wife spent most of the war, Smith reported whatever the Swiss government would permit.

The fair copy was begun on 14 July 1855 in the Swiss resort of Seelisberg, where Wagner and his wife spent a month.