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Romandy ( French: Romandie or Suisse romande; Arpitan: Romandia) [ note 1] is the French-speaking historical and cultural region part of Switzerland. In 2020, about 2 million people, or 22.8% of the Swiss population, lived in Romandy. [ 1] The majority of the romand population lives in the western part of the country, especially the Arc ...
20 Minuten ( German-language edition) OCLC number. 427962538. Website. 20min.ch/fr. Media of Switzerland. List of newspapers. 20 minutes is a French-language newspaper published in Switzerland, launched on 8 March 2006 by Tamedia for the Romandie. As of 2008, it had a circulation of 221,560.
Swiss musician Ernest Ansermet, a champion of his music from 1918 onwards, recorded many of Martin's works, including the oratorio In Terra Pax (1944), with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. [ 2 ] Martin based his mature style on his personal variant (first used around 1932) of Arnold Schoenberg 's twelve-tone technique , but he did not ...
Swiss French ( French: français de Suisse or suisse romand) is the variety of French spoken in the French-speaking area of Switzerland known as Romandy. French is one of the four official languages of Switzerland, the others being German, Italian, and Romansch. In 2020 around 2 million people, or 22.8% of the population, in Switzerland spoke ...
Télévision Suisse Romande (TSR) The Radio Télévision Suisse ( RTS) is a Swiss public broadcasting organisation. Part of SRG SSR, RTS handles production and broadcasting of radio and television programming in French for Switzerland. It was created on 1 January 2010 by a merger of Radio suisse romande and Télévision suisse romande .
History. Launched on 1 May 1954 to succeed Télé Genève, RTS Un is the first channel of the two Swiss French networks of television group RTS (the other being RTS Deux ). The channel first aired programmes in colour in 1968. RTS took part in the creation of TV5 in 1984, and provides programmes for the international channel.
Culture of Switzerland. As there is no dominant national language, the four main languages of French, Italian, German and Romansch form the four branches which make up a literature of Switzerland. The original Swiss Confederation, from its foundation in 1291 up to 1798, gained only a few French-speaking districts in what is now the Canton of ...
Lake Geneva is the largest body of water in Switzerland, and greatly exceeds in size all others that are connected with the main valleys of the Alps. It is in the shape of a crescent, with the horns pointing south, the northern shore being 95 km (59 mi) and the southern shore 72 km (45 mi) in length.