Lausanne
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- Names
Lausanne
Lousanna
Lausonium
- Place Type
- inhabited place
- Description
- Located on the N shore of Lake Geneva, 32 m. SE of Geneva. Originally a Celtic settlement and then a Roman military camp, it was ruled by prince-bishops from the 6th century to 1536. The Ottoman Empire signed a treaty here with Italy in 1912 and with Turkey in 1923. It was an intellectual center in the 18th century and was the home of Gibbon, Rousseau, and Voltaire.
- Authority
- Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Source
- Canby, Historic Places (1984); Cassell's Italian Dictionary (1983); Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961); Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988); Times Atlas of the World (1994); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984);
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