Betten
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Betten is a former municipality in the district of Raron in the canton of Valais in Switzerland. On 1 January 2014 the former municipalities of Betten and Martisberg merged into the new municipality of Bettmeralp.
Key facts
- Swiss town.subject_name
- Betten
- Swiss town.image_photo
- Betten.JPG
- Swiss town.municipality_type
- former
- Swiss town.imagepath_coa
- CHE Betten COA.svg
- Swiss town.imagepath_flag
- CHE Betten Flag.svg
- Swiss town.canton
- Valais
- Swiss town.iso code region
- CH-VS
- Swiss town.district
- Raron
- Swiss town.postal_code
- 3991
- Swiss town.municipality_code
- 6171
- Swiss town.area
- 26.4
- Swiss town.elevation
- 1203
- Swiss town.population
- 420
- Swiss town.populationof
- Dec 2011
- Swiss town.website
- gemeinde.bettmeralp.ch
- Swiss town.neighboring_municipalities
- Fiesch, Fieschertal, Filet, Grengiols, Lax, Martisberg, Naters, Riederalp
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- Ortsteil
- Country
- Switzerland
- Located in
- Bettmeralp
- Area
- 26.4
- Elevation
- 1192
- Shares border with
- Naters
- Official website
- gemeinde.bettmeralp.ch
- Image
- Betten.JPG
- Dialing code
- 027
- Licence plate code
- VS
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- Commons category
- Betten
- postal code
- 3991
- replaced by
- Bettmeralp
- P8168
- John Branch
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
11 sectionsContents
- History
- Geography
- Coat of arms
- Demographics
- Sights
- Politics
- Economy
- Religion
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- References
- External links
Betten is a former municipality in the district of Raron in the canton of Valais in Switzerland. On 1 January 2014 the former municipalities of Betten and Martisberg merged into the new municipality of Bettmeralp.
==History== Betten is first mentioned in 1243 as Bettan. thumb|Historic aerial photograph by Werner Friedli from 1955
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Betten” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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