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The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

Basel-Land and Basel-Stadt: see Basel , Switzerland. Author not available, BASEL-LAND., The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition 2008... Read more

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...inhabitants are German-speaking and Protestant. The canton has been divided since 1833 into two independent half cantons— Basel-Land (1993 pop. 248,500), 165 sq mi (427 sq km), generally comprising the rural districts, with its capital at Liestal, and... Read more

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...Vaud , Valais , Neuchâtel , Geneva , and Jura . Of the half cantons, Obwalden and Nidwalden together form Unterwalden , Basel-Land and Basel-Stadt form Basel , and Ausser-Rhoden and Inner-Rhoden form Appenzell . German, French, and Italian are Switzerland... Read more

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	Hiatus or continuity? New results for the question of pleniglacial settlement in Central Europe. ; ...important Upper Palaeolithic stations concentrated in the neighbouring Kaltbrunnental and Birsta) valleys (FIGURE 2) in the Basel-Land Canton of the Swiss Jura (Sedlmeier 1998; Leesch 1993). The double cave entrance opens over a breadth of 23 m at an elevation... Read more
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