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Gland, Switzerland
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Prangins
Prangins (pʁɑ̃ʒɛ̃) is a municipality in the district of Nyon in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. It is located on Lake Geneva. Prangins is first mentioned around 1135-85 as Prengins. Following the fall of the Second French Empire, Prince Napoléon Bonaparte and his wife, Princess Maria Clotilde of Savoy, resided in exile at Château de Prangins, where Charles I of Austria and his family would later take residence briefly, beginning 20 May 1919. Prangins has an area, , of . Of this area, or 54.
Begnins
Begnins is a municipality in the district of Nyon in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. It belongs to the wine-producing area of La Côte. Begnins was first mentioned in 1145 as Begnins. Begnins has an area, , of . Of this area, or 68.8% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 17.2% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 14.0% is settled (buildings or roads) and or 0.2% is unproductive land. Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 9.4% and transportation infrastructure made up 3.8%.
Nyon District
Nyon District is a district in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland. The seat of the district is the city of Nyon. Nyon has an area, , of . Of this area, or 42.0% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 44.7% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 12.8% is settled (buildings or roads) and or 0.5% is unproductive land. Nyon has a population () of . Most of the population () speaks French (47,010 or 75.9%), with English being second most common (4,462 or 7.2%) and German being third (4,361 or 7.0%).
Vich, Switzerland
Vich is a municipality in the district of Nyon in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. Vich is known to have been a paleolithic settlement, only to have been abandoned in the Neolithic, although the area was certainly exploited by people from the settlement of nearby Gland. Although traces from the Bronze Age have been found in the vicinity, and the site that was to become Vich found itself strategically situated on the Vy de l'Etraz - the Roman paved road (albeit with prehistoric antecedents) from Nyon to Orbe - there is no archaeological evidence or mention of a village until 1165 when the church of Vich (ecclesiam de Vizo) was given by the Lord of Begnins to the Cistercian abbey of Bonmont.