See also:

• VEVEY [German Vivis]

VEVEY [See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German Vivis]  , a small 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:

• VAUD (Ger. Waadt)

Vaud and near the eastern extremity of the See also:

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

Lake of See also:

• GENEVA
• GENEVA (Fr. Geneve, Ger. Genf, Ital. Ginevra, Late Lat. Gebenna, though Genava in good Latin)
• GENEVA, LAKE OF

Geneva . It is by See also:

• RAIL

rail 12 m . S.E. of See also:

• LAUSANNE

Lausanne or 31 M . N.W. of the Vernex-See also:

• MONTREUX

Montreux railway station, while it is well served by steamers plying over the Lake of Geneva . In 'goo it had a See also:

• POPULATION (Lat. populus, people; populare, to populate)

population of 11,781, of whom 8878 were See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French-speaking, while there were 8277 Protestants to 3424 Romanists and 56 See also:

• JEWS
• JEWS (Heb. Y8hudi, man of Judah; Gr. 'Iovbaiot; Lat. Judaei)

Jews . It is the second town in point of population in the canton, coming next after Lausanne, though inferior to the " agglomeration " known as Montreux . It stands at the mouth of the Veveyse and commands See also:

• FINE

fine views of the snowy mountains seen over the glassy See also:

• SURFACE

surface of the lake . The whole of the surrounding See also:

• COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country is covered with vineyards, which (with the entertainment of See also:

• FOREIGN

foreign visitors) occupy the inhabitants . Every twenty years or so (last in 1889 and 1905) the Fete See also:

• DES

des Vignerons is held here by an See also:

• ANCIENT
• ANCIENT (also spelt ANTIENT; derived, through the Fr. ancien, old, from the late Lat. antianum, from ante, before)

ancient gild of vinedressers, and attracts much See also:

• ATTENTION (from Lat. ad-tendo, await, expect; the condition of being " stretched " or " tense ")

attention . Besides a railway See also:

• LINE

line that joins the Montreux-Bernese Oberland line at Chamby (5 M. from See also:

• VEVEY [German Vivis]

Vevey and It m_ below See also:

• LES

Les Avants) there is a funicular railway from Vevey up the Mont Merin (3557 ft.) to the See also:

• NORTH
• NORTH, BARONS
• NORTH, MARIANNE (1830—1890)
• NORTH, ROGER (1653-1734)
• NORTH, SIR THOMAS (1535?-16o1?)

north-See also:

• WEST
• WEST, BENJAMIN (1738-1820)
• WEST, NICHOLAS (1461-1533)

west . Vevey was a See also:

• ROMAN

Roman See also:

• SETTLEMENT
• SETTLEMENT, ACT OF

settlement [Viviscus] and later formed See also:

• PART

part of the See also:

• BARONY

barony of Vaud, that was held by the See also:

• COUNTS

counts and See also:

• DUKES
• DUKES, LEOPOLD (1810-1891)

dukes of See also:

• SAVOY, HOUSE
• SAVOY, HOUSE OF

Savoy till 1536, when it was conquered by See also:

• BERN (Fr. Berne)

Bern . In 1798 it was freed from Bernese See also:

• RULE

rule and became part of the canton du Leman (renamed canton de Vaud in 1803) of the Helvetic See also:

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

Republic .

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