Gingins
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Gingins is a municipality in the district of Nyon in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.
Key facts
- Swiss town.subject_name
- Gingins
- Swiss town.municipality_type
- municipality
- Swiss town.imagepath_coa
- CHE Gingins COA.svg
- Swiss town.imagepath_flag
- CHE Gingins Flag.svg
- Swiss town.image_photo
- Gingins Croix blanche.JPG
- Swiss town.canton
- Vaud
- Swiss town.iso code region
- CH-VD
- Swiss town.district
- Nyon
- Swiss town.postal_code
- 1276
- Swiss town.municipality_code
- 5719
- Swiss town.area
- 12.58
- Swiss town.elevation
- 542
- Swiss town.population
- 1008
- Swiss town.populationof
- 2003
- Swiss town.website
- www.gingins.ch
- Swiss town.mayor_title
- Syndic
- Swiss town.neighboring_municipalities
- Chéserex, Grens, La Rippe, Prémanon (FR-39), Saint-Cergue, Trélex
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
Commune de Gingins - site Internet officiel - Commune de Gingins
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Encyclopedic overview
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- History
- Geography
- Coat of arms
- Demographics
- Politics
- Economy
- Religion
- Education
- References
Gingins is a municipality in the district of Nyon in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.
==History== Gingins is first mentioned around 1144–59 as Gingins. In October 1535, a major battle was fought in that locality between the forces of the Republic of Geneva and Charles III, Duke of Savoy, which ended in the latter's defeat.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gingins” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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