FACTOID # 140: In Switzerland, the average person has to work for 102 minutes to buy a kilogram of beef - one of the longest times in the developed world. On the other hand, they only have work 14 hours to buy a refrigerator for it.
 
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Encyclopedia > Sion

Sion may be:

Sion, Czech Republic 
a castle in the Czech Republic, near Kutná Hora
Sion, France 
a municipality in the Gers départment, France.
Sion, India 
a suburb of Mumbai, India.
Sion, Netherlands 
a town in the municipality of Rijswijk, Netherlands, near The Hague
Sion, Switzerland 
a town in Switzerland, capital of the canton of Valais

Kutná Hora   listen? (German: Kuttenberg, Hory Kutné in medieval Czech) is a city in the Czech Republic, in Central Bohemian Region of Bohemia. ... Sion is a commune of the Gers département in France. ... Sion (Sheev in Marathi) is a suburb of Mumbai. ... Sion is the name of one of the following places: Sion, Czech Republic  a castle in the Czech Republic, near Kutná Hora Sion, France  a municipality in the Gers départment, France. ... Rijswijk (also Ryswick in English) (population: 47,693 in 2004) is a suburb of The Hague in the western Netherlands, in the province of South Holland. ... Notre Dame de Valère above the city Sion is a town in Switzerland, on the Rhône River. ...

See also

Priory of Sion 
a secret society which swears to protect the literal descendents of Jesus and his wife Mary Magdalene
Sion Kölsch 
a brand of German beer
Darth Sion 
a villain from the video game Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords
Zion (disambiguation)
Sion is also occasionally seen as an alternate form for the word Zion.

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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Sion (1582 words)
Diocese of Sion is the oldest in Switzerland and one of the oldest north of the Alps.
Sion to carry their secular power farther down the Rhone were bitterly and successfully opposed by the abbots of Saint-Maurice, who had obtained large possessions in Lower Valais.
Sion belonged generally to noble families of Savoy and Valais and were often drawn into the feuds of these families.
Priory of Sion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1832 words)
Prieuré de Sion, usually rendered in English translation as Priory of Sion or even Priory of Zion, is an elusive protagonist in many works of both non-fiction and fiction.
Between 1961 and 1984 Plantard contrived a mythical pedigree of the Priory of Sion claiming that it was the offshoot of the "Order of Sion", which had been founded in the Kingdom of Jerusalem during the First Crusade.
The Priory of Sion was supposedly led by a Grand Master or Nautonnier.
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