Lake Constance, the Glossary
Lake Constance (Bodensee) refers to three bodies of water on the Rhine at the northern foot of the Alps: Upper Lake Constance (Obersee), Lower Lake Constance (Untersee), and a connecting stretch of the Rhine, called the Seerhein.[1]
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- Austria–Germany border
- Austria–Switzerland border
- Germany–Switzerland border
- High Rhine basin
- Lakes of Baden-Württemberg
- Lakes of Thurgau
- Lakes of Vorarlberg
- Lakes of the canton of Schaffhausen
- Lakes of the canton of St. Gallen
Aach (Arbon)
The Aach is a river in Arbon in Switzerland, formed by the confluence of two rivers, the Hegibach and the Feilebach, each about long.
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Aachtopf
The Aachtopf is Germany's biggest karst spring, south of the western end of the Swabian Jura near the town of Aach.
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Aerial tramway
An aerial tramway, aerial tram, sky tram, aerial cablecar, aerial cableway, telepherique, or seilbahn is a type of aerial lift which uses one or two stationary ropes for support while a third moving rope provides propulsion.
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Age of Enlightenment
The Age of Enlightenment (also the Age of Reason and the Enlightenment) was the intellectual and philosophical movement that occurred in Europe in the 17th and the 18th centuries.
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Airport
An airport is an aerodrome with extended facilities, mostly for commercial air transport.
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Alemanni
The Alemanni or Alamanni were a confederation of Germanic tribes.
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Alemannic German
Alemannic, or rarely Alemannish (Alemannisch), is a group of High German dialects.
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Allensbach
Allensbach is a municipality in the district of Konstanz in Baden-Württemberg in Germany.
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Allgäu
The Allgäu (Standard) or Allgovia is a region in Swabia in southern Germany. Lake Constance and Allgäu are regions of Baden-Württemberg.
Allgäu Alps
The Allgäu Alps (Allgäuer Alpen.) are a mountain range in the Northern Limestone Alps, located on the Austria–Germany border, which covers parts of the German states of Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg and the Austrian states of Tyrol and Vorarlberg.
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Alpine Foreland
The Alpine Foreland, less commonly called the Bavarian Foreland,Dickinson, Robert E (1964).
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Alpine Rhine
The Alpine Rhine Valley (Alpenrheintal) is a glacial alpine valley, formed by the Alpine Rhine (Alpenrhein), the part of the Rhine between the confluence of the Anterior Rhine and Posterior Rhine at Reichenau and Lake Constance. Lake Constance and alpine Rhine are Austria–Switzerland border.
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Alps
The Alps are one of the highest and most extensive mountain ranges in Europe, stretching approximately across eight Alpine countries (from west to east): Monaco, France, Switzerland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Germany, Austria and Slovenia.
Alter Rhein
The Alter Rhein (German for Old Rhine) is the old river bed of the Alpine Rhine in St. Gallen and Vorarlberg in the Alpine Rhine Valley, which was cut off when the Rhine was straightened during the 20th century.
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Altnau
Altnau is a municipality in the district of Kreuzlingen in the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland.
Ammianus Marcellinus
Ammianus Marcellinus, occasionally anglicised as Ammian (Greek: Αμμιανός Μαρκελλίνος; born, died 400), was a Roman soldier and historian who wrote the penultimate major historical account surviving from antiquity (preceding Procopius).
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Anno Domini
The terms anno Domini. (AD) and before Christ (BC) are used when designating years in the Julian and Gregorian calendars.
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Appenzell Alps
The Appenzell Alps (Appenzeller Alpen) are a mountain range in Switzerland on the northern edge of the Alps.
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Appenzell Railways
Appenzell Railways (Appenzeller Bahnen, AB) is a Swiss railway company with headquarters in Herisau.
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Arbon
Arbon is a historic town and a municipality and district capital of the district of Arbon in the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland.
Archaeology
Archaeology or archeology is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture.
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Arctic char
The Arctic char or Arctic charr (Salvelinus alpinus) is a cold-water fish in the family Salmonidae, native to alpine lakes, as well as Arctic and subarctic coastal waters in the Holarctic.
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Argen
The Argen is a river in Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
Assumption of Mary
The Assumption of Mary is one of the four Marian dogmas of the Catholic Church.
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Astacus astacus
Astacus astacus, the European crayfish, noble crayfish, or broad-fingered crayfish, is the most common species of crayfish in Europe, and a traditional food source.
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Austria
Austria, formally the Republic of Austria, is a landlocked country in Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps.
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Austria–Germany border
The border between the modern states of Austria and Germany has a length of, or respectively.
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Austria–Switzerland border
The border between the modern states of Austria and Switzerland is divided into two parts, separated by the Principality of Liechtenstein, with a total length of.
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Austrian Federal Railways
The Austrian Federal Railways (Österreichische Bundesbahnen, formally Österreichische Bundesbahnen-Holding Aktiengesellschaft or ÖBB-Holding AG and formerly the Bundesbahnen Österreich or BBÖ), now commonly known as ÖBB, is the national railway company of Austria, and the administrator of Liechtenstein's railways.
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Austropotamobius pallipes
Austropotamobius pallipes is an endangered European freshwater crayfish, and the only crayfish native to the British Isles.
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Austropotamobius torrentium
Austropotamobius torrentium, also called the stone crayfish, is a European species of freshwater crayfish in the family Astacidae.
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Öhningen
Öhningen is a municipality on the western edge of Lake Constance where it forms the border between Switzerland and the district of Konstanz (or Constance) in Baden-Württemberg in Germany.
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Überlingen
Überlingen (Low Alemannic: Iberlinge) is a German city on the northern shore of Lake Constance (Bodensee) in Baden-Württemberg near the border with Switzerland.
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Baden-Württemberg
Baden-Württemberg, commonly shortened to BW or BaWü, is a German state in Southwest Germany, east of the Rhine, which forms the southern part of Germany's western border with France.
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Baltic Sea
The Baltic Sea is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that is enclosed by Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Sweden, and the North and Central European Plain.
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Basel
Basel, also known as Basle,Bâle; Basilea; Basileia; other Basilea. Lake Constance and Basel are border tripoints.
Basel-Stadt
Basel-Stadt or Basel-City (help; Chantun Basilea-Citad; Canton de Bâle-Ville; Canton Basilea Città) is one of the 26 cantons forming the Swiss Confederation.
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Battle of Lake Constance
The Battle of Lake Constance (Lacus Brigantinus) was a small naval battle between Roman forces and Celtic tribes in the spring of 15 BC.
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Bavaria
Bavaria, officially the Free State of Bavaria, is a state in the southeast of Germany.
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Bülach District
Bülach District (Bezirk Bülach) is one of 12 districts of the Canton of Zürich in Switzerland, with some 117,000 inhabitants it is the third largest in the canton.
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Büsingen am Hochrhein
Büsingen am Hochrhein (Alemannic: Büesinge am Hochrhi), often known simply as Büsingen, is a German municipality in the south of Baden-Württemberg with a population of about 1,548 inhabitants.
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Beaufort scale
The Beaufort scale is an empirical measure that relates wind speed to observed conditions at sea or on land.
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Berlingen, Switzerland
Berlingen is a municipality in Frauenfeld District in the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland.
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Bird migration
Bird migration is a seasonal movement of birds between breeding and wintering grounds that occurs twice a year.
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Bird ringing
Bird ringing (UK) or bird banding (US) is the attachment of a small, individually numbered metal or plastic tag to the leg or wing of a wild bird to enable individual identification.
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Black Sea
The Black Sea is a marginal mediterranean sea lying between Europe and Asia, east of the Balkans, south of the East European Plain, west of the Caucasus, and north of Anatolia.
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Black-throated loon
The black-throated loon (Gavia arctica), also known as the Arctic loon and the black-throated diver, is a migratory aquatic bird found in the northern hemisphere, primarily breeding in freshwater lakes in northern Europe and Asia.
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Boat racing
Boat racing is a sport in which boats, or other types of watercraft, race on water.
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Bodanrück
Bodanrück is the wide peninsula that divides Lake Constance (Bodensee) into Überlinger See (part of Obersee) and Gnadensee, which is part of Untersee.
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Bodensee S-Bahn
Bodensee S-Bahn is an international marketing effort grouping various regional rail services (S-Bahn, R/RB, RE, RE/REX) around Lake Constance (Bodensee) in Austria, Germany and Switzerland.
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Bodman-Ludwigshafen
Bodman-Ludwigshafen is a municipality in the district of Konstanz in Baden-Württemberg in Germany, located on the most western shore of Lake Überlingen, the north-western part of the Upper Lake of Lake Constance (Bodensee).
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Body of water
A body of water or waterbody is any significant accumulation of water on the surface of Earth or another planet.
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Bottighofen
Bottighofen is a municipality in the district of Kreuzlingen in the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland.
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Bregenz
Bregenz (Breagaz) is the capital of Vorarlberg, the westernmost state of Austria.
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Bregenzer Ach
The Bregenzer Ach (also: Bregenzer Ache) is the main river of the Bregenz Forest (Bregenzerwald) in the Austrian state of Vorarlberg.
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Bregenzer Festspiele
Bregenzer Festspiele (Bregenz Festival) is a performing arts festival which is held every July and August in Bregenz in Vorarlberg (Austria).
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Brigantii
The Brigantii (Gaulish: Brigantioi, 'the eminent, high ones') were a Gallic tribe dwelling southeast of Lake Constance, near present-day Bregenz (Vorarlberg), during the Roman era.
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Bronze Age
The Bronze Age was a historical period lasting from approximately 3300 to 1200 BC.
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Brown trout
The brown trout (Salmo trutta) is a species of salmonid ray-finned fish and the most widely distributed species of the genus Salmo, endemic to most of Europe, West Asia and parts of North Africa, and has been widely introduced globally as a game fish, even becoming one of the world's worst invasive species outside of its native range.
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Brunnisach
The Brunnisach is a river in Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
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Bundesautobahn 81
is a motorway in Germany.
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Bundesautobahn 96
is a motorway in southern Germany, leading from the Austrian border (A14) near Lindau (Lake Constance) through Memmingen, Landsberg am Lech to Munich.
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Bundesautobahn 98
is a long motorway in southern Germany, originally intended to connect Weil am Rhein with the A 8 near Irschenberg.
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Bundesstraße 31
The Bundesstraße 31 (B 31) is a federal highway or Bundesstraße running from east to west in South Germany.
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Burbot
The burbot (Lota lota), also known as bubbot, mariah, loche, cusk, freshwater cod, freshwater ling, freshwater cusk, the lawyer, coney-fish, lingcod, or eelpout, is a species of coldwater ray-finned fish native to the subarctic regions of the Northern hemisphere.
C. H. Beck
Verlag C.H. BECK oHG, established in 1763 by Carl Gottlob Beck, is one of Germany's oldest publishing houses.
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Camino de Santiago
The Camino de Santiago (Peregrinatio Compostellana,; O Camiño de Santiago), or in English the Way of St.
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Canton of Schaffhausen
The canton of Schaffhausen, also canton of Schaffhouse (Kanton Schaffhausen; Chantun Schaffusa; Canton de Schaffhouse; Canton Sciaffusa), is the northernmost canton of Switzerland.
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Canton of St. Gallen
The canton of St.
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Caspar Vopel
Caspar Vopel (1511–1561) was a German cartographer and instrument maker.
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Celts
The Celts (see pronunciation for different usages) or Celtic peoples were a collection of Indo-European peoples.
Central Europe
Central Europe is a geographical region of Europe between Eastern, Southern, Western and Northern Europe.
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Central European Time
Central European Time (CET) is a standard time of Central, and parts of Western Europe, which is one hour ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).
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Chinese mitten crab
The Chinese mitten crab (Eriocheir sinensis;; Shanghainese: du6-zaq8-ha5, "big sluice crab"), also known as the Shanghai hairy crab (上海毛蟹, p Shànghǎi máoxiè), is a medium-sized burrowing crab that is named for its furry claws, which resemble mittens.
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Christianity
Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.
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Church of Saint George (Reichenau)
The Church of Saint George is a Roman Catholic church.
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Clearing (geography)
The clearing of woods and forests is the process by which vegetation, such as trees and bushes, together with their roots are permanently removed.
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Coastline paradox
The coastline paradox is the counterintuitive observation that the coastline of a landmass does not have a well-defined length.
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Common blackbird
The common blackbird (Turdus merula) is a species of true thrush.
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Common bream
The common bream (Abramis brama), also known as the freshwater bream, bream, bronze bream, carp bream or sweaty bream, is a European species of freshwater fish in the family Cyprinidae.
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Common chiffchaff
The common chiffchaff (Phylloscopus collybita), or simply the chiffchaff, is a common and widespread leaf warbler which breeds in open woodlands throughout northern and temperate Europe and the Palearctic.
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Common goldeneye
The common goldeneye or simply goldeneye (Bucephala clangula) is a medium-sized sea duck of the genus Bucephala, the goldeneyes.
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Common loon
The common loon or great northern diver (Gavia immer) is a large member of the loon, or diver, family of birds.
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Common merganser
The common merganser (North American) or goosander (Eurasian) (Mergus merganser) is a large sea duck of rivers and lakes in forested areas of Europe, Asia, and North America.
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Common pochard
The common pochard (Aythya ferina), known simply as pochard in the United Kingdom, is a medium-sized diving duck in the family Anatidae.
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Common starling
The common starling (Sturnus vulgaris), also known as the European starling in North America and simply as the starling in Great Britain and Ireland, is a medium-sized passerine bird in the starling family, Sturnidae.
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Condé Nast Traveler
Condé Nast Traveler is a luxury and lifestyle travel magazine published by Condé Nast.
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Condominium (international law)
A condominium (plural either condominia, as in Latin, or condominiums) in international law is a political territory (state or border area) in or over which multiple sovereign powers formally agree to share equal dominium (in the sense of sovereignty) and exercise their rights jointly, without dividing it into "national" zones.
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Constance Hopper
The Constance Hopper, Bay of Constance or Constance Funnel (Konstanzer Trichter) is a bay in Lake Constance, to the east of Constance and north of Kreuzlingen.
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Constantius Chlorus
Flavius Valerius Constantius (– 25 July 306), also called Constantius I, was a Roman emperor from 305 to 306.
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Coregonus
Coregonus is a diverse genus of fish in the salmon family (Salmonidae).
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Coregonus arenicolus
Coregonus arenicolus is a freshwater fish of the family Salmonidae found in Lake Constance (Switzerland, Germany and Austria).
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Coregonus gutturosus
Coregonus gutturosus, the Lake Constance whitefish, is an extinct species of whitefish in the salmon family Salmonidae.
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Council of Constance
The Council of Constance was an ecumenical council of the Catholic Church that was held from 1414 to 1418 in the Bishopric of Constance (Konstanz) in present-day Germany.
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Crayfish plague
Crayfish plague (Aphanomyces astaci) is a water mold that infects crayfish, most notably the European Astacus which dies within a few weeks of being infected.
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Dactylorhiza
Dactylorhiza is a genus of flowering plants in the orchid family Orchidaceae.
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Danube
The Danube (see also other names) is the second-longest river in Europe, after the Volga in Russia.
Danube Sinkhole
Möhringen Schematic of the sinkhole locations and the route to Aachtopf Completely dry Danube riverbed Sink hole on the southern bank of the Danube, at the main sinkhole site below Immendingen Sign in Immendingen. Translation: "Sinkhole – Here the Danube sinks dry on about 155 days per year" The Danube Sinkhole (Donauversinkung or Donauversickerung) is an incipient underground stream capture in the Upper Danube Nature Park.
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DB Regio
DB Regio AG is a subsidiary of Deutsche Bahn which operates regional and commuter train services in Germany.
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Diessenhofen
Diessenhofen is a village and a municipality in Frauenfeld District in the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland.
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Dikerogammarus villosus
Dikerogammarus villosus, also known as the killer shrimp, is a species of amphipod crustacean native to the Ponto-Caspian region of eastern Europe, but which has become invasive across the western part of the continent.
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Diving regulator
A diving regulator or underwater diving regulator is a pressure regulator that controls the pressure of breathing gas for underwater diving.
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Dornbirn
Dornbirn is a city in the westernmost Austrian state of Vorarlberg.
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Dornbirner Ach
The Dornbirner Ach (also called Dornbirner Ache) is a long stream in Vorarlberg, Austria, and a tributary of Lake Constance (Bodensee) and the Rhine, respectively.
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Downcutting
Downcutting, also called erosional downcutting, downward erosion or vertical erosion, is a geological process by hydraulic action that deepens the channel of a stream or valley by removing material from the stream's bed or the valley's floor.
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Drainage basin
A drainage basin is an area of land where all flowing surface water converges to a single point, such as a river mouth, or flows into another body of water, such as a lake or ocean.
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Drainage divide
A drainage divide, water divide, ridgeline, watershed, water parting or height of land is elevated terrain that separates neighboring drainage basins.
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Drift (geology)
In geology, drift is a name for all sediment (clay, silt, sand, gravel, boulders) transported by a glacier and deposited directly by or from the ice, or by glacial meltwater.
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Drumlin
A drumlin, from the Irish word ("little ridge"), first recorded in 1833, in the classical sense is an elongated hill in the shape of an inverted spoon or half-buried egg formed by glacial ice acting on underlying unconsolidated till or ground moraine.
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Duchy of Swabia
The Duchy of Swabia (German: Herzogtum Schwaben; Latin: Ducatus Allemaniæ) was one of the five stem duchies of the medieval German Kingdom.
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Duchy of Württemberg
The Duchy of Württemberg (Herzogtum Württemberg) was a duchy located in the south-western part of the Holy Roman Empire.
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Dunlin
The dunlin (Calidris alpina) is a small wader in the genus Calidris.
Early Middle Ages
The Early Middle Ages (or early medieval period), sometimes controversially referred to as the Dark Ages, is typically regarded by historians as lasting from the late 5th to the 10th century.
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Early modern period
The early modern period is a historical period that is part of the modern period based primarily on the history of Europe and the broader concept of modernity.
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Egnach
Egnach is a municipality of the district of Arbon in the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland.
Elbe Germanic peoples
The Elbe Germans (Elbgermanen) or Elbe Germanic peoples were Germanic tribes whose settlement area, based on archaeological finds, lay either side of the Elbe estuary on both sides of the river and which extended as far as Bohemia and Moravia, clearly the result of a migration up the Elbe river from the northwest in advance of the main Migration Period until the individual groups ran into the Roman Danube Limes around 200 AD.
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Endemism
Endemism is the state of a species only being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsewhere.
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Eriskirch
Eriskirch is a municipality in the Bodensee district of Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
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Ermatingen
Ermatingen is a municipality in the district of Kreuzlingen in the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland.
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Erosion
Erosion is the action of surface processes (such as water flow or wind) that removes soil, rock, or dissolved material from one location on the Earth's crust and then transports it to another location where it is deposited.
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Eschenz
Eschenz is a municipality in Frauenfeld District in the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland.
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Eurasian blackcap
The Eurasian blackcap (Sylvia atricapilla), usually known simply as the blackcap, is a common and widespread typical warbler.
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Eurasian blue tit
The Eurasian blue tit (Cyanistes caeruleus) is a small passerine bird in the tit family, Paridae.
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Eurasian chaffinch
The Eurasian chaffinch, common chaffinch, or simply the chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs) is a common and widespread small passerine bird in the finch family.
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Eurasian coot
The Eurasian coot (Fulica atra), also known as the common coot, or Australian coot, is a member of the rail and crake bird family, the Rallidae.
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Eurasian curlew
The Eurasian curlew or common curlew (Numenius arquata) is a very large wader in the family Scolopacidae.
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European bullhead
The European bullhead (Cottus gobio) is a freshwater fish that is widely distributed in Europe, mainly in rivers.
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European Court of Justice
The European Court of Justice (ECJ), formally just the Court of Justice (Cour de Justice), is the supreme court of the European Union in matters of European Union law.
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European eel
The European eel (Anguilla anguilla) is a species of eel.
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European greenfinch
The European greenfinch or simply the greenfinch (Chloris chloris) is a small passerine bird in the finch family Fringillidae.
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European perch
The European perch (Perca fluviatilis), also known as the common perch, redfin perch, big-scaled redfin, English perch, Euro perch, Eurasian perch, Eurasian river perch, Hatch, poor man's rockfish or in Anglophone parts of Europe, simply the perch, is a predatory freshwater fish native to Europe and North Asia.
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European robin
The European robin (Erithacus rubecula), known simply as the robin or robin redbreast in Great Britain and Ireland, is a small insectivorous passerine bird that belongs to the chat subfamily of the Old World flycatcher family.
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Extinction
Extinction is the termination of a taxon by the death of its last member.
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Faxonius limosus
Faxonius limosus, synonym Orconectes limosus, is a species of crayfish in the family Cambaridae.
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Ferry
A ferry is a boat that transports passengers, and occasionally vehicles and cargo, across a body of water.
Flotilla
A flotilla (from Spanish, meaning a small flota (fleet) of ships), or naval flotilla, is a formation of small warships that may be part of a larger fleet.
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Fluvial sediment processes
In geography and geology, fluvial sediment processes or fluvial sediment transport are associated with rivers and streams and the deposits and landforms created by sediments.
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Foehn wind
A Foehn, or Föhn, is a type of dry, relatively warm downslope wind that occurs in the lee (downwind side) of a mountain range.
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Foothills or piedmont are geographically defined as gradual increases in elevation at the base of a mountain range, higher hill range or an upland area.
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Franks
Aristocratic Frankish burial items from the Merovingian dynasty The Franks (Franci or gens Francorum;; Francs.) were a western European people during the Roman Empire and Middle Ages.
Fresh water
Fresh water or freshwater is any naturally occurring liquid or frozen water containing low concentrations of dissolved salts and other total dissolved solids.
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Friedrichshafen
Friedrichshafen (or; Low Alemannic: Hafe or Fridrichshafe) is a city on the northern shoreline of Lake Constance (the Bodensee) in Southern Germany, near the borders of both Switzerland and Austria.
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Friedrichshafen Airport
Friedrichshafen Airport (Flughafen Friedrichshafen,; also known as Bodensee Airport Friedrichshafen) is a minor international airport 1.9 miles (3 km) north of Friedrichshafen, Germany, on the banks of Lake Constance (German: Bodensee).
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Fruit
In botany, a fruit is the seed-bearing structure in flowering plants that is formed from the ovary after flowering (see Fruit anatomy).
Fußach
Fußach is a municipality in the district of Bregenz in the Austrian state of Vorarlberg.
Fugger family
The House of Fugger is a German family that was historically a prominent group of European bankers, members of the fifteenth- and sixteenth-century mercantile patriciate of Augsburg, international mercantile bankers, and venture capitalists.
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Gaißau
Gaißau is a municipality in the district of Bregenz in the Austrian state of Vorarlberg.
Gaienhofen
Gaienhofen is a municipality in the district of Konstanz in Baden-Württemberg in Germany.
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Gale warning
A gale warning is an alert issued by national weather forecasting agencies around the world in an event that maritime locations currently or imminently experiencing winds of gale force on the Beaufort scale.
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Galgeninsel
The Galgeninsel is a peninsula on the shore of Lake Constance near Lindau in the Bay of Reutin in Germany.
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Güttingen
Güttingen is a municipality in the district of Kreuzlingen in the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland.
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Gentiana pneumonanthe
Gentiana pneumonanthe, the marsh gentian, is a species of the genus Gentiana.
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Germany
Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), is a country in Central Europe.
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Germany–Switzerland border
The border between the modern states of Germany and Switzerland extends to, mostly following Lake Constance and the High Rhine (Hochrhein), with territories to the north mostly belonging to Germany and territories to the south mainly to Switzerland.
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Giuseppe Verdi
Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi (9 or 10 October 1813 – 27 January 1901) was an Italian composer best known for his operas.
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Glacial lake
A glacial lake is a body of water with origins from glacier activity.
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Glacier terminus
A glacier terminus, toe, or snout, is the end of a glacier at any given point in time.
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Glarus Alps
The Glarus Alps (Glarner Alpen) are a mountain range in central Switzerland.
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Gnadensee
The Gnadensee is part of Lower Lake Constance (Untersee), the western part of the lake.
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Goldach
Goldach is a municipality in the Wahlkreis (constituency) of Rorschach in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland.
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Gottlieben
Gottlieben is a municipality in the district of Kreuzlingen in the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland.
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Grand Duchy of Baden
The Grand Duchy of Baden (Großherzogtum Baden) was a state in south-west Germany on the east bank of the Rhine.
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Great cormorant
The great cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo), known as the black shag or kawau in New Zealand, formerly also known as the great black cormorant across the Northern Hemisphere, the black cormorant in Australia, and the large cormorant in India, is a widespread member of the cormorant family of seabirds.
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Great crested grebe
The great crested grebe (Podiceps cristatus) is a member of the grebe family of water birds.
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Great tit
The great tit (Parus major) is a small passerine bird in the tit family Paridae.
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Grey heron
The grey heron (Ardea cinerea) is a long-legged wading bird of the heron family, Ardeidae, native throughout temperate Europe and Asia, and also parts of Africa.
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Hagnau am Bodensee
Hagnau am Bodensee is a commune and a village in the district of Bodensee in Baden-Württemberg in Germany.
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Hallstatt culture
The Hallstatt culture was the predominant Western and Central European archaeological culture of the Late Bronze Age (Hallstatt A, Hallstatt B) from the 12th to 8th centuries BC and Early Iron Age Europe (Hallstatt C, Hallstatt D) from the 8th to 6th centuries BC, developing out of the Urnfield culture of the 12th century BC (Late Bronze Age) and followed in much of its area by the La Tène culture.
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Hard, Austria
Hard is a town in the west of the westernmost Austrian state of Vorarlberg, directly on the southern shores of Lake Constance.
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Höchst, Austria
Höchst is a municipality in the district of Bregenz in the Austrian state of Vorarlberg.
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Hörbranz
Hörbranz is a municipality in the district of Bregenz in the Austrian state of Vorarlberg.
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Headward erosion
Headward erosion is erosion at the origin of a stream channel, which causes the origin to move back away from the direction of the stream flow, lengthening the stream channel.
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Heat index
The heat index (HI) is an index that combines air temperature and relative humidity, in shaded areas, to posit a human-perceived equivalent temperature, as how hot it would feel if the humidity were some other value in the shade.
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Hegau
Hegau either refers to a region of the Duchy of Swabia or to only that part of said region which is presently located in the country of Germany. Lake Constance and Hegau are regions of Baden-Württemberg.
Heiden, Switzerland
Heiden is a village and a municipality in the canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden in Switzerland.
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Helvetii
The Helvetii (Gaulish: *Heluētī), anglicized as Helvetians, were a Celtic tribe or tribal confederation occupying most of the Swiss plateau at the time of their contact with the Roman Republic in the 1st century BC.
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High Rhine
High Rhine (Hochrhein,; kilometres 0 to 167 of the Rhine) is the name of the part of the Rhine between Lake Constance (Bodensee) and the city of Basel, flowing in a general east-to-west direction and forming mostly the Germany–Switzerland border. Lake Constance and High Rhine are high Rhine basin and regions of Baden-Württemberg.
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Hiking
Hiking is a long, vigorous walk, usually on trails or footpaths in the countryside.
Hohenkrähen
Hohenkrähen is a mountain of volcanic origin in the Hegau region (Konstanz district) of southern Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
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Hohenstaufen
The Hohenstaufen dynasty, also known as the Staufer, was a noble family of unclear origin that rose to rule the Duchy of Swabia from 1079, and to royal rule in the Holy Roman Empire during the Middle Ages from 1138 until 1254.
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Hohentwiel
Hohentwiel is a mountain of volcanic origin in the Hegau region of Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany.
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Horn, Switzerland
Horn is a municipality in the district of Arbon in the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland.
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House of Bernadotte
The House of Bernadotte is the royal family of Sweden, founded there in 1818 by King Charles XIV John of Sweden.
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House sparrow
The house sparrow (Passer domesticus) is a bird of the sparrow family Passeridae, found in most parts of the world.
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Houseboat
A houseboat is a boat that has been designed or modified to be used primarily for regular dwelling.
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Hoy (Lake Constance)
Hoy is an uninhabited island in Lake Constance in Germany.
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Hunter-gatherer
A hunter-gatherer or forager is a human living in a community, or according to an ancestrally derived lifestyle, in which most or all food is obtained by foraging, that is, by gathering food from local naturally occurring sources, especially wild edible plants but also insects, fungi, honey, bird eggs, or anything safe to eat, and/or by hunting game (pursuing and/or trapping and killing wild animals, including catching fish).
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Ice age
An ice age is a long period of reduction in the temperature of Earth's surface and atmosphere, resulting in the presence or expansion of continental and polar ice sheets and alpine glaciers.
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Immenstaad am Bodensee
Immenstaad am Bodensee is a municipality in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, on the north shore of Lake Constance (called the Bodensee in German) near the Austrian and Swiss borders.
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Imperial Diet (Holy Roman Empire)
The Imperial Diet (or Comitium Imperiale; Reichstag) was the deliberative body of the Holy Roman Empire.
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International Rhine Regulation Railway
The International Rhine Regulation Railway (Internationale Rheinregulierungsbahn) was an industrial railway situated on both banks of the Alpine Rhine canal to the south of its outfall into Lake Constance.
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Introduced species
An introduced species, alien species, exotic species, adventive species, immigrant species, foreign species, non-indigenous species, or non-native species is a species living outside its native distributional range, but which has arrived there by human activity, directly or indirectly, and either deliberately or accidentally.
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Iris sibirica
Iris sibirica, commonly known as Siberian iris or Siberian flag, is a species of flowering plant in the family Iridaceae.
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Iron Age
The Iron Age is the final epoch of the three historical Metal Ages, after the Chalcolithic and Bronze Age.
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Island
An island or isle is a piece of subcontinental land completely surrounded by water.
Jan Janssonius
Johannes Janssonius (1588, in Arnhem – buried July 11, 1664, in Amsterdam) (born Jan Janszoon, in English also Jan Jansson) was a Dutch cartographer and publisher who lived and worked in Amsterdam in the 17th century.
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Jesuits
The Society of Jesus (Societas Iesu; abbreviation: SJ), also known as the Jesuit Order or the Jesuits (Iesuitae), is a religious order of clerics regular of pontifical right for men in the Catholic Church headquartered in Rome.
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Johannes Zwick
Johannes Zwick (– 23 October 1542) was a German Reformer and hymnwriter.
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Jura (ship, 1854)
The Jura was a wooden, flush deck, paddle steamer, originally built for service on Lake Neuchâtel, but which was sold after seven years to work on Lake Constance, and sank in 1864 after a collision with the Stadt Zürich.
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Jurassic
The Jurassic is a geologic period and stratigraphic system that spanned from the end of the Triassic Period million years ago (Mya) to the beginning of the Cretaceous Period, approximately Mya.
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Kaiserpfalz
The term Kaiserpfalz ("imperial palace") or Königspfalz ("royal palace", from Middle High German phalze to Old High German phalanza from Middle Latin palatia to Latin palatium "palace") refers to a number of palaces and castles across the Holy Roman Empire that served as temporary seats of power for the Holy Roman Emperor in the Early and High Middle Ages.
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Karlsruhe
Karlsruhe (South Franconian: Kallsruh) is the third-largest city of the German state of Baden-Württemberg, after its capital Stuttgart and Mannheim, and the 22nd-largest city in the nation, with 308,436 inhabitants.
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Karst spring
A karst spring or karstic spring is a spring (exsurgence, outflow of groundwater) that is part of a karst hydrological system.
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Kesswil
Kesswil is a municipality in the district of Arbon in the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland.
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Knot (unit)
The knot is a unit of speed equal to one nautical mile per hour, exactly (approximately or). The ISO standard symbol for the knot is kn.
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Konstanz
Konstanz (also), also known as Constance in English, is a university city with approximately 83,000 inhabitants located at the western end of Lake Constance in the south of Germany.
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Konstanz station
Konstanz station (Bahnhof Konstanz) is the largest passenger station in the German city of Konstanz (Constance).
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Kressbronn am Bodensee
Kressbronn am Bodensee is a municipality and a village in the district of Bodensee in Baden-Württemberg in Germany.
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Kreuzlingen
Kreuzlingen is a municipality in the district of Kreuzlingen in the canton of Thurgau in north-eastern Switzerland.
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La Tène culture
The La Tène culture was a European Iron Age culture.
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Lago di Lei
Lago di Lei (Lombard: Lach de Lei) is a reservoir in the Valle di Lei, powering the Hinterrhein storage power stations. Lake Constance and Lago di Lei are international lakes of Europe.
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Lake Überlingen
Lake Überlingen (Standard German of Germany: Überlinger See, Swiss Standard German: Überlingersee) is the northwestern "finger" of the Obersee, the lower part of Lake Constance. Lake Constance and Lake Überlingen are lakes of Baden-Württemberg.
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Lake Balaton
Lake Balaton is a freshwater rift lake in the Transdanubian region of Hungary.
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Lake Constance Belt Railway
Lake Constance Belt Railway (Bodenseegürtelbahn) is the name used for several contiguous railway lines, either around the entire Upper Lake of Lake Constance (Bodensee) or only along its northern shore.
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Lake Constance train ferries
The Lake Constance train ferries (Bodensee-Trajekte) were train ferries that were set up in the 19th century by railway companies to transport rail freight wagons across Lake Constance (Bodensee) between the five states located around the lake at the time.
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Lake Geneva
Lake Geneva (Léman, lac Léman, rarely lac de Genève; Lago Lemano; Genfersee; Lai da Genevra) is a deep lake on the north side of the Alps, shared between Switzerland and France. Lake Constance and lake Geneva are international lakes of Europe, lakes of Switzerland and mountain lakes.
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Lake Zell
Lake Zell (Zeller See; Lago di Zell) is a small freshwater lake in the Austrian Alps.
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Langenargen
Langenargen is a town in the district of Bodensee in Baden-Württemberg in Germany.
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Leiblach
The Leiblach is a tributary of Lake Constance (Obersee) and the Rhine, respectively. Lake Constance and Leiblach are Austria–Germany border.
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Liebesinsel (Lake Constance)
The Liebesinsel ("Love Island") is a small, uninhabited island on Lake Constance in Germany.
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Liechtenstein
Liechtenstein, officially the Principality of Liechtenstein (Fürstentum Liechtenstein), is a doubly landlocked German-speaking microstate in the Central European Alps, between Austria in the east and north and Switzerland in the west and south.
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Lindau
Lindau (Lindau (Bodensee), Lindau am Bodensee;; Low Alemannic: Lindou) is a major town and island on the eastern side of Lake Constance (Bodensee in German) in Bavaria, Germany.
Lindau (district)
Lindau is a ''Landkreis'' (district) in Swabia, Bavaria, Germany; its capital is the city of Lindau.
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Lindau (island)
On the island of Lindau in the eastern Lake Constance is the Altstadt of the Bavarian county town of Lindau, which occupies the eastern part of the island.
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Linear Pottery culture
The Linear Pottery culture (LBK) is a major archaeological horizon of the European Neolithic period, flourishing.
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List of largest lakes of Europe
This is a list of lakes of Europe with an average area greater than.
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List of water sports
Water sports or aquatic sports are sports activities conducted on waterbodies and can be categorized according to the degree of immersion by the participants.
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Lochau
Lochau is a municipality in the westernmost Austrian state of Vorarlberg.
Lombard League
The Lombard League (Liga Lombarda in Lombard, Lega Lombarda in Italian) was a medieval alliance formed in 1167, supported by the popes, to counter the attempts by the Hohenstaufen Holy Roman emperors to assert influence over the Kingdom of Italy as a part of the Holy Roman Empire.
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Loon
Loons (North American English) or divers (British / Irish English) are a group of aquatic birds found in much of North America and northern Eurasia.
Ludwigshafen
Ludwigshafen, officially Ludwigshafen am Rhein (meaning "Ludwig's Port upon Rhine"), is a city in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate, on the river Rhine (Upper Rhine), opposite Mannheim.
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Mainau
Mainau also referred to as Mav(e)no(w), Maienowe (in 1242), Maienow (in 1357), Maienau, Mainowe (in 1394) and Mainaw (in 1580) is an island in Lake Constance (on the Southern shore of the Überlinger See near the city of Konstanz, Baden-Württemberg, Germany).
Mallard
The mallard or wild duck (Anas platyrhynchos) is a dabbling duck that breeds throughout the temperate and subtropical Americas, Eurasia, and North Africa.
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Mammern
Mammern is a municipality in Frauenfeld District in the canton of Thurgau, Switzerland, on Lake Constance.
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Markelfinger Winkel
The Markelfinger Winkel is the part of Lake Constance between the upper part of the Mettnau Peninsula and Markelfingen.
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Mägdeberg
Mägdeberg is a mountain of volcanic origin in the Hegau region (Konstanz district) of southern Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
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Münsterlingen
Münsterlingen is a municipality in the district of Kreuzlingen in the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland.
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Mediterranean Sea
The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa, on the east by the Levant in West Asia, and on the west almost by the Morocco–Spain border.
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Meersburg
Meersburg is a town in Baden-Württemberg in the southwest of Germany.
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Meersburg Castle
Meersburg Castle (Burg Meersburg), also known as the Alte Burg (English: Old Castle), in Meersburg on Lake Constance in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, is considered to be one of the oldest inhabited castles in Germany.
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Meltwater
Meltwater (or melt water) is water released by the melting of snow or ice, including glacial ice, tabular icebergs and ice shelves over oceans.
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Mesolithic
The Mesolithic (Greek: μέσος, mesos 'middle' + λίθος, lithos 'stone') or Middle Stone Age is the Old World archaeological period between the Upper Paleolithic and the Neolithic.
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Mettnau
Mettnau is a peninsula, located east of the town of Radolfzell in the western part of Lake Constance.
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Microlith
A microlith is a small stone tool usually made of flint or chert and typically a centimetre or so in length and half a centimetre wide.
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Middle High German
Middle High German (MHG; Mittelhochdeutsch (Mhdt., Mhd.)) is the term for the form of German spoken in the High Middle Ages.
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Mike Oldfield
Michael Gordon Oldfield (born 15 May 1953) is an English former musician, songwriter and producer best known for his debut studio album Tubular Bells (1973), which became an unexpected critical and commercial success.
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Mindelsee
The Mindelsee is a Proglacial lake in Radolfzell, Baden-Württemberg Germany. Lake Constance and Mindelsee are lakes of Baden-Württemberg.
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Mint (facility)
A mint is an industrial facility which manufactures coins that can be used as currency.
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Mole
Mole (or Molé) may refer to.
Moos, Baden-Württemberg
Moos is a town on the Bodensee (Lake Constance) in the district of Konstanz in Baden-Württemberg in Germany.
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Moraine
A moraine is any accumulation of unconsolidated debris (regolith and rock), sometimes referred to as glacial till, that occurs in both currently and formerly glaciated regions, and that has been previously carried along by a glacier or ice sheet.
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Motorboat
A motorboat, speedboat or powerboat is a boat that is exclusively powered by an engine.
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Myosotis rehsteineri
Myosotis rehsteineri is a species of flowering plant belonging to the family Boraginaceae.
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Mysida
Mysida is an order of small, shrimp-like crustaceans in the malacostracan superorder Peracarida.
Naval war on Lake Constance
The naval war on Lake Constance (Seekrieg auf dem Bodensee) was a series of conflicts that took place on Lake Constance, beginning in 1632, in the context of the Thirty Years' War (1618 to 1648).
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Neckar
The Neckar is a river in Germany, mainly flowing through the southwestern state of Baden-Württemberg, with a short section through Hesse.
Neolithic
The Neolithic or New Stone Age (from Greek νέος 'new' and λίθος 'stone') is an archaeological period, the final division of the Stone Age in Europe, Asia and Africa.
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Neue Zürcher Zeitung
The (NZZ; "New Journal of Zürich") is a Swiss, German-language daily newspaper, published by NZZ Mediengruppe in Zürich.
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Nonnenhorn
Nonnenhorn is one of the three Bavarian towns on Lake Constance in the Swabian district of Lindau.
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Northern lapwing
The northern lapwing (Vanellus vanellus), also known as the peewit or pewit, tuit or tewit, green plover, or (in Ireland and Great Britain) pyewipe or just lapwing, is a bird in the lapwing subfamily.
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Northern pike
The northern pike (Esox lucius) is a species of carnivorous fish of the genus Esox (pikes).
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Northern pintail
The pintail or northern pintail (Anas acuta) is a duck species with wide geographic distribution that breeds in the northern areas of Europe and across the Palearctic and North America.
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Northern shoveler
The northern shoveler (Spatula clypeata), known simply in Britain as the shoveler, is a common and widespread duck.
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Obersee (Lake Constance)
The Obersee (Upper Lake), also known as Upper Lake Constance, is the much larger of the two parts of Lake Constance, the other part being the Untersee (Lower Lake). Lake Constance and Obersee (Lake Constance) are lakes of Baden-Württemberg, lakes of Thurgau, lakes of Vorarlberg and lakes of the canton of St. Gallen.
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Old High German
Old High German (OHG; Althochdeutsch (Ahdt., Ahd.)) is the earliest stage of the German language, conventionally identified as the period from around 500/750 to 1050.
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Orchid
Orchids are plants that belong to the family Orchidaceae, a diverse and widespread group of flowering plants with blooms that are often colourful and fragrant.
Orchis
Orchis is a genus in the orchid family (Orchidaceae), occurring mainly in Europe and Northwest Africa, and ranging as far as Tibet, Mongolia, and Xinjiang.
Paddle steamer
A paddle steamer is a steamship or steamboat powered by a steam engine that drives paddle wheels to propel the craft through the water.
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Paleolithic
The Paleolithic or Palaeolithic, also called the Old Stone Age, is a period in human prehistory that is distinguished by the original development of stone tools, and which represents almost the entire period of human prehistoric technology.
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Peter Handke
Peter Handke (born 6 December 1942) is an Austrian novelist, playwright, translator, poet, film director, and screenwriter.
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Pfahlbaumuseum Unteruhldingen
Pfahlbaumuseum Unteruhldingen (German for 'Stilt house museum') is an archaeological open-air museum on Lake Constance (Bodensee) in Unteruhldingen, Germany, consisting of reconstructions of stilt houses or lake dwellings from the Neolithic and Bronze Age.
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Pfänder
The Pfänder is a mountain in western Austria close to Lake Constance (Bodensee).
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Pfänderbahn
The Pfänderbahn is a cable car in Bregenz in the Austrian province of Vorarlberg.
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Phytoplankton
Phytoplankton are the autotrophic (self-feeding) components of the plankton community and a key part of ocean and freshwater ecosystems.
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Pilgrimage
A pilgrimage is a journey to a holy place, which can lead to a personal transformation, after which the pilgrim returns to their daily life.
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Pliny the Elder
Gaius Plinius Secundus (AD 23/24 AD 79), called Pliny the Elder, was a Roman author, naturalist, natural philosopher, naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire, and a friend of the emperor Vespasian.
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Pomponius Mela
Pomponius Mela, who wrote around AD 43, was the earliest known Roman geographer.
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Prince-Bishopric of Constance
The Prince-Bishopric of Constance (Hochstift Konstanz, Fürstbistum Konstanz, Bistum Konstanz) was a small ecclesiastical principality of the Holy Roman Empire from the mid-12th century until its secularisation in 1802–1803.
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Quaternary glaciation
The Quaternary glaciation, also known as the Pleistocene glaciation, is an alternating series of glacial and interglacial periods during the Quaternary period that began 2.58 Ma (million years ago) and is ongoing.
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Radolfzell
Radolfzell am Bodensee is a town in the state of Baden-Württemberg, Germany, located at the western end of Lake Constance (Zeller Lake), approximately northwest of the city of Konstanz (Constance).
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Radolfzeller Aach
The Radolfzeller Aach (also known as Hegauer Aach) is a right or north tributary of the Rhine in the Hegau region, southern Baden-Württemberg (Germany).
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Rainbow trout
The rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) is a species of trout native to cold-water tributaries of the Pacific Ocean in North America and Asia.
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Red-crested pochard
The red-crested pochard (Netta rufina) is a large diving duck.
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Red-throated loon
The red-throated loon (North America) or red-throated diver (Britain and Ireland) (Gavia stellata) is a migratory aquatic bird found in the northern hemisphere.
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RegioExpress
RegioExpress (RE) is a fast regional train service in Switzerland, run by Swiss Federal Railways (SBB CFF FFS) or other railway companies (such as TILO, BLS, tpf, transN, THURBO or RhB).
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Regional-Express
In Germany, Luxembourg and Austria, the Regional-Express (RE, or in Austria: REX) is a type of regional train.
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Reichenau Abbey
Reichenau Abbey was a Benedictine monastery on Reichenau Island (known in Latin as Augia Dives).
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Reichenau Island
Reichenau Island is an island in Lake Constance in Southern Germany.
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Reichenau, Baden-Württemberg
Reichenau is a municipality in the district of Konstanz in Baden-Württemberg in Germany.
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Rhaetian people
The Raeti (spelling variants: Rhaeti, Rheti or Rhaetii) were a confederation of Alpine tribes, whose language and culture was related to those of the Etruscans.
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Rheineck
Rheineck is a municipality in the Wahlkreis (constituency) of Rheintal in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland.
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Rheineck–Walzenhausen mountain railway
The Rheineck–Walzenhausen mountain railway (Bergbahn Rheineck–Walzenhausen; RhW) is a long rack railway in Switzerland.
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Rheintal/Walgau Autobahn
The Rheintal/Walgau Autobahn (A14) is a motorway in the Austrian state of Vorarlberg.
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Rhine
--> The Rhine is one of the major European rivers. Lake Constance and Rhine are Austria–Switzerland border and Germany–Switzerland border.
Rhine Falls
The Rhine Falls (Rheinfall, a singular noun) is a waterfall located in Switzerland and the most powerful waterfall in Europe.
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Rhine Glacier
The Rhine Glacier was a glacier during the last glacial period and was responsible for the formation of the Lake Constance.
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Rhine Regulation
The Regulation of the Rhine (Rheinregulierung) or Rhine Correction (Rheinkorrektion), refers to the canalisation of the Alpine Rhine on the border between Austria and Switzerland in the late 19th/early 20th century.
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Rhine–Main–Danube Canal
The Rhine–Main–Danube Canal (German: Rhein-Main-Donau-Kanal; also called Main-Danube Canal, RMD Canal or Europa Canal), is a canal in Bavaria, Germany.
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Rigoletto
Rigoletto is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi.
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Roman Empire
The Roman Empire was the state ruled by the Romans following Octavian's assumption of sole rule under the Principate in 27 BC, the post-Republican state of ancient Rome.
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Romanization (cultural)
Romanization or Latinization (Romanisation or Latinisation), in the historical and cultural meanings of both terms, indicate different historical processes, such as acculturation, integration and assimilation of newly incorporated and peripheral populations by the Roman Republic and the later Roman Empire.
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Romansh language
Romansh is a Gallo-Romance language spoken predominantly in the Swiss canton of the Grisons (Graubünden).
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Romanshorn
Romanshorn is a municipality in the district of Arbon in the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland.
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Rorschach, Switzerland
Rorschach is a municipality, in the District of Rorschach in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland.
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Rorschach–Heiden railway
The Rorschach–Heiden railway (Rorschach-Heiden-Bahn, RHB) is a railway line and former railway company in Switzerland.
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Rotach
The Rotach is a tributary of Lake Constance, which drains to the Rhine, in the German state of Baden-Württemberg.
S-Bahn
The S-Bahn is a hybrid urban-suburban rail system serving a metropolitan region predominantly in German-speaking countries.
Sailboat
A sailboat or sailing boat is a boat propelled partly or entirely by sails and is smaller than a sailing ship.
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Sailing
Sailing employs the wind—acting on sails, wingsails or kites—to propel a craft on the surface of the water (sailing ship, sailboat, raft, windsurfer, or kitesurfer), on ice (iceboat) or on land (land yacht) over a chosen course, which is often part of a larger plan of navigation.
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Salem Abbey
Salem Abbey (Kloster Salem) was a very prominent Cistercian monastery at Salem in the district of Bodensee, about ten miles from Konstanz in Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
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Salenstein
Salenstein is a municipality in Kreuzlingen District in the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland.
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Salmsach
Salmsach is a municipality in the district of Arbon in the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland.
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Salvelinus profundus
Salvelinus profundus (Tiefseesaibling 'Deepwater char') is a deepwater char species found only in deep areas of Lake Constance.
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Südkurier
The Südkurier is a regional daily newspaper in Germany serving the regions northwest of Lake Constance, Hochrhein and Black Forest with its headquarters in Konstanz.
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Südostbahn
The Südostbahn (German, literally meaning "South-Eastern Railway") – commonly abbreviated to SOB – is a Swiss railway company, and a network in Central and Eastern Switzerland.
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SBB GmbH
SBB GmbH, also known as SBB Deutschland, is a railway company that operates services in Germany and the cantons of Basel-City and Schaffhausen in Switzerland.
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Schaffhausen
Schaffhausen (Schafuuse; Schaffhouse; Sciaffusa; Schaffusa), historically known in English as Shaffhouse, is a town with historic roots, a municipality in northern Switzerland, and the capital of the canton of the same name; it has an estimated population of 36,000 It is located right next to the shore of the High Rhine; it is one of four Swiss towns located on the northern side of the Rhine, along with italic, the historic italic, and italic.
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Schussen
The Schussen is a tributary of Lake Constance (Bodensee), which drains to the High Rhine, in the southern portion of Upper Swabia in Baden-Württemberg (Germany).
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Sea level
Mean sea level (MSL, often shortened to sea level) is an average surface level of one or more among Earth's coastal bodies of water from which heights such as elevation may be measured.
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Sedimentation
Sedimentation is the deposition of sediments.
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Seefelder Aach
The Seefelder Aach is a river in the districts of Sigmaringen and Bodenseekreis, Tübingen region, southern Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
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Seerhein
The Seerhein (c.f. Rheinsee) is a river about long, in the basin of Lake Constance (Bodensee).
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Shipwreck
A shipwreck is the wreckage of a ship that is located either beached on land or sunken to the bottom of a body of water.
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Signal crayfish
The signal crayfish (Pacifastacus leniusculus) is a North American species of crayfish.
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Siltation
Siltation is water pollution caused by particulate terrestrial clastic material, with a particle size dominated by silt or clay.
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Singen
Singen (Low Alemannic: Singe) is an industrial city in the very south of Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany and just north of the German-Swiss border.
Sipplingen
Sipplingen is a municipality in the district of Bodensee in Baden-Württemberg in Germany.
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Skiing
Skiing is the use of skis to glide on snow for basic transport, a recreational activity, or a competitive winter sport.
Squall
A squall is a sudden, sharp increase in wind speed lasting minutes, as opposed to a wind gust, which lasts for only seconds.
St. Gallen S-Bahn
The St.
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St. Gallen–Altenrhein Airport
St.
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Stadt Zürich (ship, 1855)
The Stadt Zürich was a Swiss steamship, built in 1855, that plied Lake Constance.
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Steckborn
Steckborn is a municipality in Frauenfeld District in the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland.
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Stein am Rhein
Stein am Rhein (abbreviated as Stein a. R.) is a historic town and a municipality in the canton of Schaffhausen in Switzerland.
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Steinach, St. Gallen
Steinach is a municipality in the Wahlkreis (constituency) of Rorschach in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland.
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Stetten, Bodenseekreis
Stetten is a town in the district of Bodensee in Baden-Württemberg in Germany.
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Stilt house
Stilt houses (also called pile dwellings or lake dwellings) are houses raised on stilts (or piles) over the surface of the soil or a body of water.
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Stockacher Aach
Stockacher Aach is a river of Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
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Storm warning
At sea, a storm warning is a warning issued by the National Weather Service of the United States when winds between 48 knots (89 km/h, 55 mph) and 63 knots (117 km/h, 73 mph) are occurring or predicted to occur soon.
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Stream capture
Stream capture, river capture, river piracy or stream piracy is a geomorphological phenomenon occurring when a stream or river drainage system or watershed is diverted from its own bed, and flows down to the bed of a neighbouring stream.
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Stuttgarter Zeitung
The ("Stuttgart newspaper") is a German-language daily newspaper (except Sundays) edited in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, with a run of about 200,000 sold copies daily.
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Subtropics
The subtropical zones or subtropics are geographical and climate zones to the north and south of the tropics.
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Suebi
The Suebi (also spelled Suevi) or Suebians were a large group of Germanic peoples originally from the Elbe river region in what is now Germany and the Czech Republic.
Swabia
Swabia; Schwaben, colloquially Schwabenland or Ländle; archaic English also Suabia or Svebia is a cultural, historic and linguistic region in southwestern Germany. Lake Constance and Swabia are regions of Baden-Württemberg.
Swabian Jura
The Swabian Jura (Schwäbische Alb, more rarely Schwäbischer Jura), sometimes also named Swabian Alps in English, is a mountain range in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, extending from southwest to northeast and in width. Lake Constance and Swabian Jura are regions of Baden-Württemberg.
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Swimming
Swimming is the self-propulsion of a person through water, or other liquid, usually for recreation, sport, exercise, or survival.
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Swimming (sport)
Swimming is an individual or team racing sport that requires the use of one's entire body to move through water.
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Swiss Federal Railways
Swiss Federal Railways (Schweizerische Bundesbahnen, SBB; Chemins de fer fédéraux suisses, CFF; Ferrovie federali svizzere, FFS) is the national railway company of Switzerland.
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Swiss Standard German
Swiss Standard German (SSG; Schweizer Standarddeutsch), or Swiss High German (Schweizer Hochdeutsch or Schweizerhochdeutsch), referred to by the Swiss as Schriftdeutsch, or Hochdeutsch, is the written form of one of four official languages in Switzerland, besides French, Italian, and Romansh.
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Swisstopo
Swisstopo is the official name for the Swiss Federal Office of Topography (in German: Bundesamt für Landestopografie; French: Office fédéral de topographie; Italian: Ufficio federale di topografia; Romansh: Uffizi federal da topografia), Switzerland's national mapping agency.
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Switzerland
Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a landlocked country located in west-central Europe.
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Tacitus
Publius Cornelius Tacitus, known simply as Tacitus (–), was a Roman historian and politician.
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Taunus
The Taunus is a mountain range in Hesse, Germany, located north west of Frankfurt and north of Wiesbaden.
Tödi
The Tödi, is a mountain massif and with the mountain peak Piz Russein the highest mountain in the Glarus Alps and the highest summit in the canton of Glarus, Switzerland.
Tectonics
Tectonics are the processes that result in the structure and properties of the Earth's crust and its evolution through time.
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Tench
The tench or doctor fish (Tinca tinca) is a fresh- and brackish-water fish of the order Cypriniformes found throughout Eurasia from Western Europe including the British Isles east into Asia as far as the Ob and Yenisei Rivers.
Terminal moraine
A terminal moraine, also called an end moraine, is a type of moraine that forms at the terminal (edge) of a glacier, marking its maximum advance.
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Tertiary
Tertiary is an obsolete term for the geologic period from 66 million to 2.6 million years ago.
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Teutoburg Forest
The Teutoburg Forest (Teutoburger Wald) is a range of low, forested hills in the German states of Lower Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia.
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Thal, St. Gallen
Thal is a village and municipality in the Wahlkreis (constituency) of Rorschach in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland.
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The Magic Flute
The Magic Flute, K. 620, is an opera in two acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to a German libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder.
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The Millennium Bell
The Millennium Bell is the 20th record album by Mike Oldfield, released in 1999.
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Thirty Years' War
The Thirty Years' War, from 1618 to 1648, was one of the most destructive conflicts in European history.
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THURBO
Thurbo is a railway company with S-Bahn-style services in Switzerland (cantons of Aargau, Grisons, Schaffhausen, St. Gallen, Thurgau, Zürich), southern Germany (states of Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria), and northeastern Vorarlberg, Austria, jointly owned by Swiss Federal Railways (90%) and the canton of Thurgau.
Thurgau
Thurgau (Thurgovie; Turgovia; Turgovia), anglicized as Thurgovia, and formally as the Canton of Thurgau, is one of the 26 cantons forming the Swiss Confederation.
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Thymallus thymallus
Thymallus thymallus, the grayling or European grayling, is a species of freshwater fish in the salmon family Salmonidae.
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Time zone
A time zone is an area which observes a uniform standard time for legal, commercial and social purposes.
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Top station
A top station or upper station is usually the highest station of an aerial lift, a funicular, a T-bar lift or a rack railway.
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Triboldingerbohl
Triboldingerbohl, also known as Triboltingen or großes Bohl or Langenrain, is the fourth largest island of Lake Constance, with an area of.
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Triboltingen
Triboltingen is a small village in the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland, situated on the south shore of the Untersee part of Lake Constance.
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Tributary
A tributary, or an affluent, is a stream or river that flows into a larger stream (main stem or "parent"), river, or a lake.
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Tropical night
A tropical night is a term used in many European countries to describe days when the temperature does not fall below during the nighttime.
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Tufted duck
The tufted duck (or tufted pochard) (Aythya fuligula) is a small diving duck with a population of close to one million birds, found in northern Eurasia.
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Tumulus
A tumulus (tumuli) is a mound of earth and stones raised over a grave or graves.
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Uhldingen-Mühlhofen
Uhldingen-Mühlhofen is a town at the northern shore of Lake Constance, Germany between Überlingen and Meersburg.
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Underwater diving
Underwater diving, as a human activity, is the practice of descending below the water's surface to interact with the environment.
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UNESCO
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO; pronounced) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) with the aim of promoting world peace and security through international cooperation in education, arts, sciences and culture.
Untersee (Lake Constance)
The Untersee (German for Lower Lake), also known as Lower Lake Constance, is the smaller of the two lakes that together form Lake Constance. Lake Constance and Untersee (Lake Constance) are lakes of Baden-Württemberg, lakes of Thurgau and lakes of the canton of Schaffhausen.
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Unteruhldingen
Unteruhldingen is a small village, part of the town of Uhldingen-Mühlhofen, on the northwestern shore of Lake Constance, Germany.
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Uttwil
Uttwil is a municipality in the district of Arbon in the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland.
Valley station
The valley station is the lower terminal of an aerial lift, cable car, gondola lift, chairlift, rack railway or ski lift.
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Vegetable
Vegetables are parts of plants that are consumed by humans or other animals as food.
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Vindelici
The Vindelici (Gaulish) were a Gallic people dwelling around present-day Augsburg (Bavaria) during the Iron Age and the Roman period.
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Vorarlberg
Vorarlberg (Vorarlbearg, Voralbärg, or Voraadelbearg) is the westernmost state (Land) of Austria.
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Vorarlberg S-Bahn
The Vorarlberg S-Bahn is a label for regional rail services in the Austrian state of Vorarlberg.
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Walafrid Strabo
Walafrid, alternatively spelt Walahfrid, nicknamed Strabo (or Strabus, i.e. "squint-eyed") (c. 80818 August 849), was an Alemannic Benedictine monk and theological writer who lived on Reichenau Island in southern Germany.
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War of the Second Coalition
The War of the Second Coalition (Guerre de la Deuxième Coalition) (1798/9 – 1801/2, depending on periodisation) was the second war targeting revolutionary France by many European monarchies, led by Britain, Austria, and Russia and including the Ottoman Empire, Portugal, Naples and various German monarchies.
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Wasserburg am Bodensee
Wasserburg am Bodensee is one of the three Bavarian municipalities on the shores of Lake Constance.
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Wasserschutzpolizei
The Wasserschutzpolizei (WSP - literally translated "Water Protection Police" in German) is the river police that patrols the waterways, lakes and harbours of Germany around the clock.
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Würm glaciation
The Würm glaciation or Würm stage (Würm-Kaltzeit or Würm-Glazial, colloquially often also Würmeiszeit or Würmzeit; cf. ice age), usually referred to in the literature as the Würm (often spelled "Wurm"), was the last glacial period in the Alpine region.
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Württembergischer Yacht Club
The Württembergischer Yacht-Club (WYC) is a yacht club in Friedrichshafen.
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Wels catfish
The wels catfish (or; Silurus glanis), also called sheatfish or just wels, is a large species of catfish native to wide areas of central, southern, and eastern Europe, in the basins of the Baltic, Black and Caspian Seas.
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Werd (Lake Constance)
Werd Island is the main island of the small island group Werd Islands in the westernmost part of the Lower Lake of Lake Constance just before the High Rhine leaves the part of the lake known as the Rhine Lake (Rheinsee).
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Wind speed
In meteorology, wind speed, or wind flow speed, is a fundamental atmospheric quantity caused by air moving from high to low pressure, usually due to changes in temperature.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 17565 December 1791) was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period.
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Wolfram von Eschenbach
Wolfram von Eschenbach (–) was a German knight, poet and composer, regarded as one of the greatest epic poets of medieval German literature.
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Wollmatinger Ried
The nature reserve of Wollmatinger Ried – Untersee – Gnadensee is a protected area on the shores of Lake Constance in Germany.
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World Heritage Site
World Heritage Sites are landmarks and areas with legal protection by an international convention administered by UNESCO for having cultural, historical, or scientific significance.
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Wreck diving
Wreck diving is recreational diving where the wreckage of ships, aircraft and other artificial structures are explored.
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Zander
The zander (Sander lucioperca), sander or pikeperch, is a species of ray-finned fish from the family Percidae, which also includes perch, ruffe and darter.
Zebra mussel
The zebra mussel (Dreissena polymorpha) is a small freshwater mussel.
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Zeller See (Lake Constance)
The Zeller See (Standard German of Germany; Swiss Standard German: Zellersee; could be translated as "Lake of Radolfzell") is part of the Lower Lake, the lower part of Lake Constance. Lake Constance and Zeller See (Lake Constance) are lakes of Baden-Württemberg.
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Zeppelin
A Zeppelin is a type of rigid airship named after the German inventor Ferdinand von Zeppelin who pioneered rigid airship development at the beginning of the 20th century.
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Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen
The Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen is a museum in Friedrichshafen in Germany, the birthplace of the Zeppelin airship.
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Zeppelin NT
The Zeppelin NT ("Neue Technologie", German for new technology) is a class of helium-filled airships being manufactured since the 1990s by the German company Zeppelin Luftschifftechnik GmbH (ZLT) in Friedrichshafen.
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Zungenbecken
A Zungenbecken, also called a tongue basin or tongue-basin, is part of a succession of ice age geological landforms, known as a glacial series.
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100-year flood
A 100-year flood is a flood event that has on average a 1 in 100 chance (1% probability) of being equaled or exceeded in any given year.
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1999 Pentecost flood
The 1999 Pentecost flood (Pfingsthochwasser 1999) was a 100-year flood around the Pentecost season in 1999 that mostly affected Bavaria, Vorarlberg and Tirol.
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2002 Überlingen mid-air collision
On 1 July 2002, BAL Bashkirian Airlines Flight 2937, a Tupolev Tu-154 passenger jet, and DHL International Aviation ME Flight 611, a Boeing 757 cargo jet, collided in mid-air over Überlingen, a southern German town on Lake Constance, near the Swiss border.
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See also
Austria–Germany border
- Austria–Germany border
- Deutsches Eck (transport link)
- Fellhorn
- Fischbach (Linder)
- Hochwanner
- Inn (river)
- Lake Constance
- Leiblach
- Neualmbach
- Ranna (Danube)
- Rannasee
- Saalach
- Salzach
- Sorgschrofen
- Steinbach (Saalach)
- Untersberg
- Weißach (Bregenzer Ach)
- Weißbach (Lattengebirge)
- Zugspitze
Austria–Switzerland border
- Alpine Rhine
- Augstenberg
- Austria–Switzerland border
- Bürkelkopf
- Dreiländerspitze
- Drusenfluh
- Flimspitz
- Fluchthorn
- Grübelekopf
- Greitspitz
- Gross Litzner
- Gross Seehorn
- Isentällispitz
- Krone (mountain)
- Lake Constance
- Naafkopf
- Palinkopf
- Paraid Naira
- Piz Buin
- Piz Buin Pitschen
- Piz Lad
- Piz Rots
- Rhine
- Rhine delta (Lake Constance)
- Rotbüelspitz
- Samnaun Alps
- Schesaplana
- Schijenflue
- Signalhorn (Silvretta Alps)
- Silvretta Alps
- Silvrettahorn
- Sulzfluh
- Wiss Platte
Germany–Switzerland border
- Dreiländereck (Basel)
- Germany–Switzerland border
- Lake Constance
- Rhine
- Schwarzbach (Klettgau)
- Wutach (river)
High Rhine basin
- Glatt Valley
- High Rhine
- Lake Constance
- Pfäffikersee
- Sandoz chemical spill
- Töss Valley
- Toggenburg
Lakes of Baden-Württemberg
- Aalkistensee
- Annasee
- Arlesheimer See
- Baggersee Lutz
- Blautopf
- Buhlbachsee
- Degersee
- Eichener See
- Federsee
- Feldsee
- Flückigersee
- Glaswaldsee
- Green spaces in Freiburg
- Herrenwieser See
- Illmensee (lake)
- Lake Überlingen
- Lake Constance
- Mathisleweiher
- Max-Eyth-See
- Mindelsee
- Mummelsee
- Nonnenmattweiher
- Obersee (Lake Constance)
- Sankenbachsee
- Schluchsee
- Schurmsee
- Titisee
- Trappensee
- Untersee (Lake Constance)
- Waldenecksee
- Wildsee (Kaltenbronn)
- Wildsee (Ruhestein)
- Windgfällweiher
- Zeller See (Lake Constance)
Lakes of Thurgau
- Bichelsee (lake)
- Bommer Weiher
- Hüttwilersee
- Hasensee
- Lake Constance
- Nussbaumersee
- Obersee (Lake Constance)
- Untersee (Lake Constance)
Lakes of Vorarlberg
- Formarinsee
- Körbersee
- Lünersee
- Lake Constance
- Obersee (Lake Constance)
- Silvretta Reservoir
- Vallülasee
Lakes of the canton of Schaffhausen
- Lake Constance
- Morgetshofsee
- Untersee (Lake Constance)
Lakes of the canton of St. Gallen
- Bettenauer Weiher
- Chapfensee
- Gübsensee
- Gigerwaldsee
- Lake Constance
- Lake Zurich
- Murgseen
- Oberer Murgsee
- Obersee (Lake Constance)
- Obersee (Zürichsee)
- Schwarzsee (Pizol)
- Schwendisee
- Stausee Mapragg
- Voralpsee
- Walensee
- Werdenbergersee
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Constance
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