 The French-speaking part of Switzerland is shown in green on this map. Romandy (French: la Suisse romande, German: Romandie, Welschland, Welschschweiz or Westschweiz ("Welsch" is an old German word for "Foreign" and is the same word the Anglo Saxons used for the original British inhabitants i.e. the people from Wales. It is considered a derogatory term in Switzerland which is not appreciated by the French Swiss unlike the word "Romandie" which derives from "Roman"), Italian: Svizzera romanda), is the French-speaking part of Switzerland. It covers the area of the cantons of Geneva, Vaud, Neuchâtel, and Jura as well as the French-speaking parts of the cantons of Berne, Valais, and Fribourg. About 1.5 million people (or 20% of the Swiss population) live in Romandy. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1500x957, 277 KB) Beschreibung Licensing File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Switzerland Demographics of Switzerland ...
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brass replica of the Tjurkö Bracteate showing the attestation of the name Walha Walha is an ancient Germanic word, meaning foreigner or stranger (welsh). It is attested in the Roman Iron Age Tjurkö Bracteate inscription as walhakurne, probably welsh crown for Roman coin, i. ...
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Ancient Rome was a civilization that grew from a small agricultural community founded on the Italian Peninsula circa the 9th century BC to a massive empire straddling the Mediterranean Sea. ...
The twenty-six cantons of Switzerland are the states of the federal state of Switzerland. ...
The Canton of Geneva is the westernmost canton or state of Switzerland, surrounded on almost all sides by France and centered around the city of Geneva. ...
The Canton of Vaud is one of the 26 cantons of Switzerland located in the southwestern part of the country. ...
Neuchâtel is a canton of Switzerland. ...
The Canton of Jura is the newest (created in 1979) of the 26 Swiss cantons, located in the northwestern part of Switzerland. ...
The Swiss canton of Bern (German: Kanton Bern; French Canton de Berne) has a population of about 947,000. ...
The Valais (German: ) is one of the 26 cantons of Switzerland in the south-western part of the country, in the Pennine Alps around the valley of the Rhone River from its springs to Lake Geneva. ...
The Canton of Fribourg is a canton of Switzerland. ...
Swiss French and the French of France are the same language, with some differences. For example, like some other regions of the French-speaking world, Swiss people (as well as many Francophone Belgians) use septante (seventy) instead of soixante-dix (literally, "sixty ten") and nonante (ninety) instead of "quatre-vingt-dix" ("four twenties and ten"). In much of Romandy, speakers use huitante (eighty) in place of the standard in France and elsewhere of "quatre-vingt" (four-twenty) and "sou" for a 5-centime coin. [1] Swiss French (Suisse romand in French) is the name used for the different dialects of French spoken in the Francophone part of Switzerland known as Romandy. ...
The term Romandy does not formally exist in the political system but is used to distinguish and unify the French-speaking population of Switzerland. The television channel Télévision Suisse Romande (TSR) serves the Romande community across Switzerland, and is syndicated to TV5. TSR 1 and TSR 2 are French-language TV channels in Switzerland, part of SRG SSR idée suisse. ...
TV5 is a global television network, broadcasting several channels of French language programming. ...
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