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Agiez
Agiez is a municipality of the district of Jura-Nord Vaudois in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. History Agiez is first mentioned in 1011 as ''in Aziaco''. Geography Agiez has an area, , of . Of this area, or 63.3% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 31.4% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 4.4% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.5% is either rivers or lakes and or 0.4% is unproductive land.Swiss Federal Statistical Office-Land Use Statistics 2009 data accessed 25 March 2010 
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Agiez is a municipality of the district of Jura-Nord Vaudois in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. History Agiez is first mentioned in 1011 as ''in Aziaco''. Geography Agiez has an area, , of . Of this area, or 63.3% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 31.4% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 4.4% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.5% is either rivers or lakes and or 0.4% is unproductive land.Swiss Federal Statistical Office-Land Use Statistics 2009 data accessed 25 March 2010
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Jura-North Vaudois District
Jura-Nord Vaudois District (, ) is a district in Vaud canton of Switzerland. Its capital is Yverdon-les-Bains. Geography Jura-Nord vaudois has an area, , of . Of this area, or 47.6% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 44.1% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 7.0% is settled (buildings or roads) and or 1.3% is unproductive land.Swiss Federal Statistical Office-Land Use Statistics 2009 data accessed 25 March 2010. Demographics Jura-Nord vaudois has a population () of . In there were 605 live births to Swiss citizens and 195 births to non-Swiss citizens, and in same time span there were 608 deaths of Swiss citizens and 48 non-Swiss citizen deaths. Ignoring immigration and emigration, the population of Swiss citizens ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orbe District
Orbe District was a district of the canton of Vaud, Switzerland. Mergers and name changes * On 1 January 1970 the former municipalities of Envy and Romainmôtier merged to form the new municipality of Romainmôtier-Envy. * On 1 September 2006 the municipalities of L'Abergement, Agiez, Arnex-sur-Orbe, Ballaigues, Baulmes, Bavois, Bofflens, Bretonnières, Chavornay, Les Clées, Corcelles-sur-Chavornay, Croy, Juriens, Lignerolle, Montcherand, Orbe, La Praz, Premier, Rances, Romainmôtier-Envy, Sergey, Valeyres-sous-Rances, Vallorbe, Vaulion and Vuiteboeuf came from the District d'Orbe to join the Jura-North Vaudois District.Nomenklaturen – Amtliches Gemeindeverzeichnis der Schweiz accessed 4 April 2011 Municipalities * ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bofflens
Bofflens is a municipality in the district of Jura-Nord Vaudois in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. History Bofflens is first mentioned in 1007 as ''in curte Bofflenis''. In 1011 it was mentioned as ''Boflinges''. Geography Bofflens has an area, , of . Of this area, or 71.3% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 22.7% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 5.7% is settled (buildings or roads).Swiss Federal Statistical Office-Land Use Statistics 2009 data accessed 25 March 2010 Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 2.1% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.1%. Power and water infrastructure as well as other special developed areas made up 1.4% of the area Out of the forested land, all of the forested land area is c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bretonnières
Bretonnières is a municipality in the district of Jura-Nord Vaudois in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. History Bretonnières is first mentioned in 1154 as ''Bretoneres''. Geography Bretonnières has an area, , of . Of this area, or 44.8% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 46.4% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 9.2% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.2% is either rivers or lakes.Swiss Federal Statistical Office-Land Use Statistics 2009 data accessed 25 March 2010 Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 2.9% and transportation infrastructure made up 4.2%. Power and water infrastructure as well as other special developed areas made up 2.0% of the area Out of the forested land, 44.4% of the total land area is hea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Les Clées
Les Clées is a Municipalities of Switzerland, municipality in the district of Jura-North Vaudois District, Jura-Nord Vaudois in the Cantons of Switzerland, canton of Vaud in Switzerland. History Les Clées is first mentioned in 1134 as ''Clees''. Above the village are the remains of the Les Clées Castle, castle. The keep was restored in the 19th century, but the rest of castle remained in ruins. During the Middle Ages was a city that was granted numerous freedoms in 1272 by the Count of Savoy. It owed its prosperity to the traffic through the Jougne Pass and the tolls that the castle collected on the pass road. Starting in 1536 it belonged to the bailiwick of Yverdon. The city was the center of the Les Clées district or bailiwick, which also included another eight villages. From the 15th century until 1566, the Vallée de Joux also belonged to the district. In 1134, Pope Innocent II tried in vain to prohibit the reconstruction of the castle. In 1232, Hugo IV, the Duke o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Montcherand
Montcherand () is a municipality in the district of Jura-Nord Vaudois in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. History Montcherand is first mentioned in 1324 as ''Montcherant''. Geography Montcherand has an area, , of . Of this area, or 52.9% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 30.4% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 13.7% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.3% is either rivers or lakes and or 1.3% is unproductive land.Swiss Federal Statistical Office-Land Use Statistics 2009 data accessed 25 March 2010 Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 4.2% and transportation infrastructure made up 6.2%. Power and water infrastructure as well as other special developed areas made up 1.6% of the area while parks, green belts and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orbe
Orbe (; ; older , ; ) is a municipality in the Swiss canton of Vaud. It was the seat of the former district of Orbe and is now part of the district of Jura-Nord Vaudois. History Orbe is first mentioned about 280 as ''Urba''. In 1179, it was mentioned as ''versus Orbam''. Ancient history During the Roman era, Orbe – then known as Urba – was a town of Gallia, in the territory of the Helvetii. In the Antonine Itinerary, it is placed between Lacus Lausonius and Ariolica, xviii m.p. from Lacus Lausonius and xxiiii m.p. from Ariolica. On the Boscéaz hill are the remains of a vast and luxurious Roman villa, the large, exquisite mosaics of which are visible. Middle ages By the Middle Ages, Orbe sat on the road over the Jougne Pass and at the crossroads of two major transportation routes. One stretched from the Jura Mountains to the Alps while the other ran from the Rhine River to the Rhone River. The municipality grew up on both sides of the Orbe. On the left side wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arnex-sur-Orbe
Arnex-sur-Orbe (, literally ''Arnex on Orbe'') is a municipality in the Swiss canton of Vaud, located in the district of Jura-Nord Vaudois. History Arnex-sur-Orbe is first mentioned in 1049 as ''Arniacum''. Geography Arnex-sur-Orbe has an area, , of . Of this area, or 73.6% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 19.4% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 6.4% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.5% is either rivers or lakes and or 0.3% is unproductive land.Swiss Federal Statistical Office-Land Use Statistics 2009 data accessed 25 March 2010 Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 2.2% and transportation infrastructure made up 3.7%. Out of the forested land, 18.0% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.4% is cover ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swiss People's Party
The Swiss People's Party (, SVP; , PPS), also known as the Democratic Union of the Centre (, UDC; , UDC), is a national-conservative and right-wing populist political party in Switzerland. Chaired by Marcel Dettling, it is the largest party in the Federal Assembly, with 62 members of the National Council and 6 of the Council of States. The SVP originated in 1971 as a merger of the Party of Farmers, Traders and Independents (BGB) and the Democratic Party, while the BGB, in turn, had been founded in the context of the emerging local farmers' parties in the late 1910s. The SVP initially did not enjoy any increased support beyond that of the BGB, retaining around 11% of the vote through the 1970s and 1980s. This changed however during the 1990s, when the party underwent deep structural and ideological changes under the influence of Christoph Blocher; the SVP then became the strongest party in Switzerland by the 2000s. In line with the changes fostered by Blocher, the party s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Social Democratic Party Of Switzerland
The Social Democratic Party of Switzerland (, SP; ), also called the Swiss Socialist Party (; , PS), is a List of political parties in Switzerland, political party in Switzerland. The SP has had two representatives on the Federal Council (Switzerland), Federal Council since 1960 and received the second-highest number of votes in the 2023 Swiss federal election. The SP was founded on 21 October 1888 and is currently the second-largest of the four leading coalition political parties in Switzerland. It is the only left-leaning party with representatives on the Federal Council, positioning itself at the Centre-left politics, centre-left. Currently, Élisabeth Baume-Schneider and Beat Jans represent the party. As of January 2024, the SP is the second-largest political party in the Federal Assembly (Switzerland), Federal Assembly. Amongst all Pro-Europeanism, pro-European parties in Switzerland the SP is the largest and unlike most other Swiss parties, the SP supports Swiss membership i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
