Jan 2: Berchtold's Day (Switzerland)


	Jan 2: Berchtold's Day (Switzerland)

egsnyder

1-2-2009 6:30 AM

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diversity, calendar, calendarwallah, switzerland

egsnyder says:

This day honours Duke Berchtold V, who founded Bern, the capital of Switzerland. He promised to name the city after the first animal he killed on a hunt. The bear (bern in German) then provided the city's name.

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