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VEVEY [German Vivis]

This article appears in Volume V28, Page 16 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: VAN-VIR
VEVEY [German Vivis] , a small town in the Swiss
canton
  of Vaud and near the eastern extremity of the Lake of Geneva. It is by
rail
  12 m. S.E. of Lausanne or 31 M. N.W. of the Vernex-Montreux railway station, while it is well served by steamers plying over the Lake of Geneva. In 'goo it had a
population
  of 11,781, of whom 8878 were French-speaking, while there were 8277 Protestants to 3424 Romanists and 56
Jews
 . It is the second town in point of
population
  in the
canton
 , coming next after Lausanne, though inferior to the " agglomeration " known as Montreux. It stands at the mouth of the Veveyse and commands fine views of the snowy mountains seen over the glassy surface of the lake. The whole of the surrounding
country is covered with vineyards, which (with the entertainment of foreign visitors) occupy the inhabitants. Every twenty years or so (last in 1889 and 1905) the Fete des Vignerons is held here by an ancient gild of vinedressers, and attracts much attention. Besides a railway line that joins the Montreux-Bernese Oberland line at Chamby (5 M. from
Vevey
  and It m_ below Les Avants) there is a funicular railway from
Vevey
  up the Mont Merin (3557 ft.) to the north-west.
Vevey was a Roman
settlement
  [Viviscus] and later formed
part
  of the barony of Vaud, that was held by the
counts
  and dukes of Savoy till 1536, when it was conquered by Bern. In 1798 it was freed from Bernese
rule
  and became
part
  of the canton du Leman (renamed canton de Vaud in 1803) of the Helvetic Republic.
(W. A. B. C.)


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