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The locations, lands, and nations mentioned in the Bible are not all listed here. Some locations might appear twice, each time under a different name. Only places having their own Wikipedia articles are included. See also the list of minor biblical places for locations which do not have their own Wikipedia article.
The Aare (Swiss Standard German: ⓘ) or Aar (Swiss Standard German: ⓘ) is the main tributary of the High Rhine (its discharge even exceeds that of the latter at their confluence) [2] and the longest river that both rises and ends entirely within Switzerland.
The Limmat is a river in Switzerland. The river commences at the outfall of Lake Zurich, in the southern part of the city of Zurich. From Zurich it flows in a northwesterly direction, continuing a further 35 km until it reaches the river Aare. The confluence is located north of the small town of Brugg and shortly after the mouth of the Reuss.
Before the building of the major bridges, a number of ferries existed in Bern to carry passengers and cargo across the Aare. Two remain in service: [ 25 ] The Reichenbach ferry ( 46°59′27″N 7°27′02″E / 46.9907°N 7.4505°E / 46.9907; 7.4505 ( Reichenbach ferry ) ) is a cable ferry established
In all traditions, most depictions show a stretch of open river with few reeds. The vessel is sometimes seen drifting in many 19th-century depictions, and some in late medieval manuscripts of the Bible Moralisée type. The Exposition of Moses, as his mother casts him off. The princess's party is further down the bank. Nicolas Poussin
The Murgenthal Status stipulates that the flow of the Aare River must not exceed 850m 3 /s (30,000 cu ft/s) at the gauge of Murgenthal's station, which is located downstream of the confluence of the Aare and the Emme rivers. When the Emme river flow increases, the flow of the Aare downstream of their confluence increases accordingly, which may ...
Länggrien (also known as Aareinseli) is an island in the River Aare, located in the canton of Solothurn, Switzerland. The island has a maximum length of 600 metres and a maximum width of 270 metres. Its highest point is 428 metres above sea level, a few metres above the river level. The minimum distance from the shore is about 50 metres.
A painting by Konstantin Flavitsky of Pharaoh's daughter finding Moses, who is in a basket.. The ark of bulrushes (Hebrew: תבת גמא, romanized: têḇaṯ gōme) was a container which, according to the episode known as the finding of Moses in the biblical Book of Exodus, carried the infant Moses.