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The canton of St. Gallen is an artificial construct of various historical territories, defined by Napoleon Bonaparte in the Act of Mediation in 1803. About half of the canton's area corresponds to the acquisitions of the abbey of St. Gallen over centuries. The city of St. Gallen became independent of the abbey in 1405.
St. Gallen [a] is a Swiss city and the capital of the canton of St. Gallen. It evolved from the hermitage of Saint Gall, founded in the 7th century. [3] Today, it is a large urban agglomeration (with around 167,000 inhabitants in 2019) [4] and represents the center of eastern Switzerland. Its economy consists mainly of the service sector.
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Map of the canton of St. Gallen with 14 districts as valid before 2003. St. Gallen District (German: Bezirk St. Gallen) is a former administration unit of the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland. It included the municipalities of St. Gallen, Wittenbach, Häggenschwil and Muolen.
St. Gallen, Solothurn and Lucerne removed the administrative role, but retained districts for elections. In 2008 Vaud decided on a reduction from 19 to 10 districts, followed by Thurgau which combined eight into five in 2012. In 2017 Grisons replaced the 11 districts with 11 regions. In 2018 Neuchâtel eliminated the district level.
There are over 50 such summits in the canton of St. Gallen and they are mostly found in its southern districts. [1] All mountain heights and prominences on the list are from the largest- scale maps available.
St. Gallen railway station (German: Bahnhof St. Gallen) serves the town St. Gallen, the capital of the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland.It is located at the junction of the standard gauge St. Gallen–Winterthur, Rorschach–St. Gallen, and Romanshorn–Toggenburg lines of Swiss Federal Railways and the 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 + 3 ⁄ 8 in) gauge Appenzell–St. Gallen–Trogen line of Appenzell ...
By 2012, its original, St. Gallen fleet number of 128 had been restored. [ 12 ] Trolleybuses 142, 143, 144, 146 and 147 were sold in 1992 to the Valparaíso trolleybus system in Chile, but they were used in service there only briefly – most in 1992 only, with one (142) in sporadic use until 1995 or early 1996. [ 13 ]