See also:

• THUN (Fr. Thoune)
• THUN, LAKE OF

THUN (Fr. Thoune)  , a picturesque little See also:

• TOWN

town in the Swiss See also:

• CANTON
• CANTON (borrowed from the Ital. cantone, a corner or angle)
• CANTON (more correctly KWANG-CHOW Fu)
• CANTON, JOHN (1718-1772)

canton of See also:

• BERN (Fr. Berne)

Bern, built on the See also:

• BANKS, GEORGE LINNAEUS (1821-1881)
• BANKS, NATHANIEL PRENTISS (1816–1894)
• BANKS, SIR JOSEPH
• BANKS, THOMAS (1735-1805)

banks of the See also:

• AAR, or AARE

Aar, just as it issues from the See also:

• LAKE
• LAKE, GERARD LAKE, 1ST VISCOUNT (1744-1808)

Lake of See also:

• THUN (Fr. Thoune)
• THUN, LAKE OF

Thun, and by See also:

• RAIL

rail 19 m . S.E. of Bern, or 171M . N.W. of See also:

• INTERLAKEN

Interlaken . It is the See also:

• CAPITAL (i.e. capital stock or fund)
• CAPITAL (Lat. caput, head)

capital of the Bernese Oberland, the snowy peaks of which are well seen from it . It has 6030 inhabitants, mostly See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German-speaking and Protestants . The 18th-See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century See also:

• PARISH (Gr. irapouda, district, neighbourhood; 7r&poucos, one dwelling near or beside, from crap&, OtKOS, house; Lat. paroecur, Late Lat. parochia; cf. Fr. paroisse)

parish See also:

• CHURCH
• CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
• CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
• CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
• CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
• CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)

church and the 15th-century See also:

• CASTLE
• CASTLE (Lat. castellum, a fort, diminutive of castra, a camp; Fr. chateau and chdtel)

castle rise in a striking See also:

• FASHION (adapted from Fr. facon, agon, Lat. factio, making, facere, to do or make)

fashion above the town, in the See also:

• CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief See also:

• STREET
• STREET, GEORGE EDMUND (1824-1881)

street of which are arcades (locally called Lauben) as in Bern . There is a museum in the See also:

• TOWER (Lat. turris; Fr. tour, clocker; Ital. torre; Ger. Thurm)

tower of the castle, while in and near the town (in the Heimberg valley) are several See also:

• POTTERIES, THE

potteries of See also:

• LOCAL

local See also:

• WARE

ware . From its local lords it passed by 1127 to the See also:

• HOUSE
• HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in Gothic it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

house of See also:

• ZAHRINGEN

Zahringen, and on its extinction (1218) to the See also:

• COUNTS

counts cf Kyburg . The heiress of that See also:

• FAMILY

family brought Thun (and See also:

• BURGDORF (Fr. Berthoud)

Burgdorf) in 1273 to the See also:

• CADET (through the Fr. from the Late Lat. capitettum, a diminutive of caput, head, through the Provencal form capdet)

cadet or Laufenburg See also:

• LINE

line of the See also:

• HABSBURG, or HAPSBURG

Habsburg family, her See also:

• MOTHER

mother having (1264) granted the town a See also:

• CHARTER (Lat. charta, carta, from Gr. Xap-rns, originally for papyrus, material for writing, thence transferred to paper and from this material to the document, in O. Eng. boc, book)

charter of liberties that See also:

• CON

con-firmed an earlier See also:

• GRANT (from A.-Fr. graunter, O. Fr. greanter for creanter, popular Lat. creantare, for credentare, to entrust, Lat. credere, to believe, trust)
• GRANT, ANNE (1755-1838)
• GRANT, CHARLES (1746-1823)
• GRANT, GEORGE MONRO (1835–1902)
• GRANT, JAMES (1822–1887)
• GRANT, JAMES AUGUSTUS (1827–1892)
• GRANT, ROBERT (1814-1892)
• GRANT, SIR ALEXANDER
• GRANT, SIR FRANCIS (1803-1878)
• GRANT, SIR JAMES HOPE (1808–1895)
• GRANT, SIR PATRICK (1804-1895)
• GRANT, U
• GRANT, ULYSSES SIMPSON (1822-1885)

grant of 1256 . In 1375 the town was mortgaged to Bern, to which it was sold outright in 1384 . From 1798 to 1802 Thun was the capital of the canton Oberland of the Helvetic See also:

• REPUBLIC (Lat. respublica, a commonweal or common-wealth)

Republic . (W .

A . B .