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Avenches Introduction Avenches is in the Vaud Canton, and it is a municipality in the country of Switzerland. It is situated in the Broye-Vully district. It has a population of roughly 3,600 people. Geography Avenches has a total area of about 7 ...

Engadin Introduction The Engadin is sometimes spelled as Engadine. The English translation is ‘garden of the Inn’. It is a very long valley in the Alps, and it is situated in the Graubunden canton in the southeastern part of Switzerlan ...

This small town in Burgenland lies on the southern slopes of the Leitha Hills, 50 km (31 miles) south of Vienna. It became the capital of Burgenland province in 1925, when the larger and more notable Odenburg — today the Hungarian town of Sopron ...

Steyr, one of Austria’s largest industrial centres, is also a very attractive town which has managed to preserve its old town almost intact. The townscape is punctuated in the north by the turrets of the castle and in the south by the towers of t ...

Name The fjord gets its name from Trondheim – but at first the fjord could have been Pround or Prond in the Old Norse language. That name would have been related to the verb proast, and that translates to “flourish” or “thr ...