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9 unusual facts about Salève


Adventist University of France – Collonges

Collonges-sous-Salève, the village where the campus is located, is situated in the French département of Haute-Savoie, named "Upper Savoy" for its location in the foothills of the Alps mountain range.

Agglomeration community of Annemasse – Les Voirons

The agglomeration is located at Swiss border, at foot of Mount Salève, is the union fusion of the CARA and the community of cimmunes of Voirons.

Alfred Vaucher

Vaucher also taught at Saleve Adventist University, Collonges-sous-Salève, Haute-Savoie, a French biblical college, from 1921-1941 and 1945-1983.

Collonges-sous-Salève

The Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi and the singer Giuseppina Strepponi were married in secret in the parish church of Collonges-sous-Salève which then lay in the territory of the Kingdom of Piedmont.

David Nowakowsky

In 1939 Sophia's husband, Boris, was able to obtain Romanian passports for the family, and they moved to the French village of Collonges-sous-Salève on the Swiss border just outside of Geneva, taking Nowakowsky's papers with them.

Dutch-Paris

Jean Weidner was born to Dutch parents in the vicinity of the Swiss-French border at Collonges-sous-Salève - a place in the French department of Haute-Savoie.

Gabrielle Weidner

She grew up in Switzerland, close to the French border at Collonges-sous-Salève - a village in the French department of Haute-Savoie where her father, Johan Henry Weidner Sr. taught Latin and Greek at the Seventh-day Adventist Church.

Maurice-Tièche Comprehensive School

L’Ensemble Scolaire Maurice-Tièche or Maurice Tièche Comprehensive School is a K-13 co-educational, Christian private school owned by the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the region Collonges-sous-Salève of France.

Tiarama Adventist College

The only way to recruit new Adventist teachers was to send trainees to the college (now Saleve Adventist University) at Collonges-sous-Salève in France.



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