AARGAU

ärˈgou, Fr. Argovie, canton (1993 pop. 512,000), 542 sq mi (1,404 sq km), N Switzerland. Aarau is the capital. It is traversed by the Aare and Reuss rivers. Its fertile hills and valleys are used to raise fruit and cereal as well as for other agriculture and dairying. Electrical goods, textiles, cement, and precision instruments are principal manufactures. Baden and Rheinfelden are noted health resorts. Originally a Celtic settlement, the area was later occupied by the Romans and fell to the Franks in the 6th cent. The territory was taken (1415) by Bern from the house of Hapsburg and was governed by the Swiss cantons until 1798. In 1803, Aargau was admitted as a canton to the Swiss Confederation. Its population is mainly German-speaking and Protestant.

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books on: Aargau  - 189 results

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Why Movements Succeed or Fail: Opportunity, Culture, and the Struggle for Woman Suffrage
Book by Lee Ann Banaszak; Princeton University Press, 1996
Subjects: Women--Suffrage--Switzerland--History, Women--Suffrage--United States--History
AARGAU The history of the suffrage movement in Aargau can be divided into two periods separated by an era of relative...organization. Until 1942, local womens rights clubs in Aargau were dominated by two activists who initiated and organized...
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History of the Catholic Church in the Nineteenth Century (1789-1908) - Vol. 1
Book by James MacCaffrey; M.H. Gill and Son, 1910
Subjects: Catholic Church--History
In Aargau, where the Catholics formed a strong minority...resolve of suppressing all the monasteries in Aargau. This open infringement of the constitution...was obliged to denounce the action of the Aargau government as opposed to the Federal constitution...
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History of Switzerland, 1499-1914
Book by Wilhelm Oechsli, Eden Paul, Cedar Paul; Cambridge University Press, 1922
Subjects: Switzerland--History
...the other hand, the objection raised by Aargau, that the guarantee of the monasteries...threatened to render armed assistance to Aargau should force be employed by one side on...question was in suspense, until in 1843 Aargau agreed to the re-establishment of the...
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A Short History of Switzerland
Book by E. Bonjour, H. S. Offler, G. R. Potter; Clarendon Press, 1952
Subjects: Switzerland--History
...consciousness. The dissolution of the Aargau monasteries, the Jesuit question, and...their first great victory in the canton of Aargau where the Catholic minority rose in indignation...ideas. At the demand of the Radicals, Aargau at once dissolved its monasteries and...
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A Very Civil War: The Swiss Sonderbund War of 1847
Book by Joachim Remak; Westview, 1993
Subjects: Dufour, Guillaume-Henri--1787-1875--Military leadership, Fribourg (Switzerland : Canton)--History, Switzerland--Church history--19th century, Switzerland--History--Sonderbund, 1845-1847
...FROM THE START": THE SONDERBUND INVADES AARGAU A week later military operations began in earnest, as the Sonderbund invaded Aargau and federal troops moved on Fribourg...forces would mount an offensive against Aargau to the north and thus relieve the pressure...
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journal articles on: Aargau  - 13 results

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Silvio Blatter: Realism and Society in Modern Switzerland
Journal article by H. M. Waidson; World Literature Today, Vol. 64, 1990
Subjects: Books--Reviews, Literature, Modern--20th Century--History And Criticism
...a critical awareness of life in Canton Aargau in earlier times and a strong sense of...an account of political disturbances in Aargau in January 1841, for publication in the...Protestant government of the canton. When the Aargau authorities order the arrest of specific...
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August Adolf Ludwig Follen (1794-1855): Political Radicalism and Literary Romanticism in Germany and Switzerland
Journal article by Edmund Spevack; Germanic Review, Vol. 71, 1996
Subjects: Germanic Philology
...3-84. 39. H. E. Wechlin, " Der Aargau als Vermittler deutscher Literatur an...Diplomatischer Sieg Preussens uber den Aargau (Aarau, 1912 ). The best portrayal...eds. Otto Mittler and Georg Boner (Aargau: Sauerlander, 1958 ) 215-27. 48...
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Smoothing the Transition to Skilled Employment: School-Based Vocational Guidance in Britain and Continental Europe
Journal article by Valerie Jarvis; National Institute Economic Review, 1994
Subjects: Germany--Employment, Netherlands--Employment, Switzerland--Employment, United Kingdom--Employment, Vocational guidance--Research
...Schottdorf and P. Meyer, Kantonale Berufs- und Studienberatung Aargau. The article has benefitted also from many helpful comments...Egloff, Berufswahlvorbereitung (Lehrmittelverlag des Kantons Aargau, 1984) or R.Schmid, Wegweiser zur Berufswahl (Zurich...
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Decentralized Taxation and the Size of Government: Evidence from Swiss State and Local Governments
Journal article by Lars P. Feld, Gebhard Kirchgassner, Christoph A. Schaltegger; Southern Economic Journal, Vol. 77, 2010
Subjects: Local government--Management, Local government--United States, Public sector--Management
...financial potential Schwyz 66.5 110 Basel-Land 92.5 109 Aargau 87.4 108 Vaud 106.2 99 Schaffhausen 114.6 94 Ticino 64...average financial potential Schwyz 35.7 Basel-Land 27.8 Aargau 28.7 Vaud 26.3 Schaffhausen 28.2 Ticino 30.8 Thurgau...
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Exclusionary Populism in Austria, Italy, and Switzerland
Journal article by Hans-Georg Betz; International Journal, Vol. 56, 2001
Subjects: Austria, Italy, Politics & government, Populism, Switzerland
...parliaments, increasing its seats from 297 in 1991 to 400 in 1999. And between 1999 and 2001 (after the 5 March elections in Aargau, Solothurn, and Wallis) it picked up another 96 seats. As a result of the SVPs dramatic rise in the polls, the countrys...
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Was Einstein Learning Disabled?: Anatomy of a Myth
Magazine article by Marlin Thomas; Skeptic, Vol. 10, 2003
Subjects: Einstein, Albert (1879-1955), History, Language acquisition, Learning disabilities, Personal profiles, Scientists
...Entrance Report of the Gewerbeschule, Aargau Kantonsschule," dated October 26, 1895...provisionally accepted." Once admitted to the Aargau Kantonsschule, Einstein performed well...drawing.63 The final grade report from Aargau, dated Autumn 1896, which awarded grades...
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The 1848 Unification of Switzerland
Magazine article by David Birmingham; History Today, Vol. 45, September 1995
Subjects: Political culture--Switzerland, Swiss--History, Switzerland--History
...Catholic supporters. A crisis broke out in the plateau state of Aargau where a liberal government, accusing the monks of fomenting...the Austrian empire whose ruling Habsburg dynasty hailed from Aargau and had founded one of the threatened convents. The pope reminded...
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Further Adventures in Cyberspace
Magazine article by Catherine Slessor; The Architectural Review, Vol. 209, January 2001
Subjects: Architects--Appreciation, Architectural design--Competitions, Computer software industry--Competitions, Graphisoft--Competitions
...Patrick Schmid and Guido Zimmermann -- from the Fachhochschule Aargau in Switzerland for their rendition of The Ministry of Truth...Holzen and Christof Blickenstorfer (also from the Fachhochschule Aargau) submitted a floating, dreamlike rendition of The Walled City...
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In the Blood: The Secret History of the Habsburgs
Magazine article; History Today, Vol. 46, September 1996
Subjects: Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor--Biography, Holy Roman Empire--Personalities, Kings and rulers--Succession, Marie-Teresa, Duchess of Tuscany--Political activity
...Canton of Bern to allow the remains of her distant ancestors buried in the ancient Habsburg abbey of Konigs-felden in the Aargau to be exhumed and carried in state to a newly built mausoleum in the abbey of St Blasien, safely in the Habsburg territories...
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A Cup of Chiapas Culture: In Addition to Its Colorful History and an Abundance of Natural Resources, This Region of Mexico Also Produces a Wide Variety of Eco-Friendly Coffee
Magazine article by Adriana Bianco; Americas (English Edition), Vol. 60, November 2008
Subjects: Chiapas, Mexico--Description and travel, Chiapas, Mexico--Etymology, Chiapas, Mexico--Natural resources, Mayas--History, Volcanoes--Structure
...an expert in coffee and ecology. Giesemann tells us that the farm was founded in 1880 by a couple from the Swiss canton of Aargau, from which the name Argovia derives. In the late nineteenth century, the farm was acquired by Adolf Giesemann, a gamekeeper...
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[Pounds Sterling
Newspaper article; November 19, 2006
Subjects: Political parties--United Kingdom
...Nationalgalarie - until a photograph was found showing the painting in the private home of an art collector in 1931. The Art Museum of Aargau, Switzerland, rejected her claim for August Mackes Woman Reading In A Garden as without foundation. In 2004, the Hanover...


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encyclopedia articles on: Aargau  - 12 results

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Aargau
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
AARGAU ar gou, Fr. Argovie, canton (1993 pop. 512,000), 542 sq mi (1...house of Hapsburg and was governed by the Swiss cantons until 1798. In 1803, Aargau was admitted as a canton to the Swiss Confederation. Its population is mainly...
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Bern
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...which it became the leading member. Its conquests included Aargau (1415) and Vaud (1536), besides numerous smaller territories...Congress of Vienna (1815), Bern failed to recover Vaud and Aargau, but received the Bernese Jura (the former Bishopric of Basel...
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Switzerland
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Solothurn , Schaffhausen , Saint Gall , the Grisons (Graubunden), Aargau , Thurgau , Ticino , Vaud , Valais , Neuchatel , Geneva , and...rose to the first rank as a military power. The conquest of Aargau, Thurgau, and the valleys of Ticino, which were ruled as...
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Guggenheim
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
GUGGENHEIM goog nhim, family of American industrialists and philanthropists. Meyer Guggenheim, 1828 1905, b. Aargau canton, Switzerland, emigrated (1847) to the United States, prospered as a retail merchant in Philadelphia, and in time...
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Habsburg , Castle, Switzerland
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
HABSBURG , castle, Switzerland haps boorkh, castle, Aargau canton, N Switzerland, near the Aare River. Built c.1030, it served during the 12th and 13th cent. as the seat of the counts...
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