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5 unusual facts about Nyon


Daisuke Ichikawa

Ichikawa was short-listed for the 1998 World Cup finals, but national coach Takeshi Okada dropped him together with Kazuyoshi Miura and Tsuyoshi Kitazawa at the final training camp in Nyon, Switzerland.

Divonne-les-Bains

Nyon, a Swiss market town, is the nearest main town travelling east along Lake Geneva towards Lausanne.

Equestris

Nyon, a town in Switzerland, called "Equestris" during Roman times

Tsuyoshi Kitazawa

Kitazawa was short-listed for the 1998 World Cup finals, but national coach Takeshi Okada dropped him along with Kazuyoshi Miura and Daisuke Ichikawa at the final training camp in Nyon, Switzerland.

Urbain Olivier

The brother of Juste Olivier, he was well known from 1856 onwards as the author of numerous popular tales of rural life in the Canton of Vaud, especially of the region near Nyon.


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Charles Victor de Bonstetten

In 1779 he was named the Bernese bailiff of Saanen or Gessenay (here he wrote his Lettres pastorales sur une contrie de la Suisse, published in German in 1781), and in 1787 was transferred in a similar capacity to Nyon, from which post he had to retire after taking part (1791) in a festival to celebrate the destruction of the Bastille.

Divonne-les-Bains

Divonne used to have a railway, linking it to Gex and Bellegarde on the French side and to Nyon and Geneva on the Swiss side.

Fibria

The company has many distributor centers around the world and 5 offices in your the main consumers markets, they are: São Paulo (Headquarters), Beijing, Csomád - Hungary, Hong Kong, Miami and Nyon, Switzerland.

Global Blue

Global Refund moved headquarters from Kungsbacka, near Gothenburg in Sweden, to Nyon, in the Lake Geneva area, in 2001 for a more central position in Europe to manage its business then gone global but with a strong merchant customer base in European tourist destination countries.

MV Nyon

On 16 November 1958, Nyon was on a voyage from Leith, Midlothian to Dakar, Senegal when she ran aground at St. Abbs Head, Berwickshire.

Nyon–St-Cergue–Morez Railway

over the French border to the village of Les Rousses but this did not prove cost effective to the communities involved and was rejected.

Paul Piché

He then travelled throughout Quebec and performed at the festivals of Millénaire in Brussels, in La Rochelle, and in Nyon Switzerland.

Visions du Réel

During the early years of the Nyon International Documentary Film Festival, Erika de Hadeln negotiated with the film authorities in East Europe and Russia — and worked with documentary film-makers including Joris Ivens, Roman Karmen, Georges Rouquier, Basil Wright, and Henri Storck.


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