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Bern (inhabited place) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 46 55 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 46.9167 decimal degrees |
| Long: 007 28 00 E degrees minutes |
Long: 7.4667 decimal degrees |
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Note: Located on the frontier between German-speaking Alemannians and French-speaking Burgundians, its name may be derived from the German 'bär', a bear, which is its heraldic device and used on its civic seal since 1224. Founded by duke Berthold V of Zähringen in 1191, it became free imperial city after 1218. Site of important disputations between Catholics and reformers in 1528. |
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| Bern (preferred,C,V,English-P,U)
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| Bern (German,U)
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| Berne (C,V,French,U)
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| Berna (C,O,Italian,U,N)
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| Berna (Romansh,U)
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| ברן (C,U,Hebrew )
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Bern (canton) (P) |
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Bern (inhabited place) (P) |
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founded as a military post in 1191, on site of an ancient castle |
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(World, Europe) [7011731] |
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