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Also known as: Genève, Genf, Ginevra
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Paul Guichonnet
Honorary Professor of Human Geography, University of Geneva. Author of Gen ève, Reflexions sur un destin urbain; general editor of Histoire de Gen ève.
Paul Guichonnet,
Maurice Cranston
Professor of Political Science, London School of Economics and Political Science, University of London, 1969–85. Biographer of Locke and Rousseau.
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Geneva, city, capital of Genève canton, in the far southwestern corner of Switzerland that juts into France. One of Europe’s most cosmopolitan cities, Geneva has served as a model for republican government and owes its preeminence to the triumph of human, rather than geographic, factors. It developed its unique character from the 16th century, when, as the centre of the Calvinist Reformation, it became the “Protestant Rome.” The canton of Genève has a total area of 109 square miles (282 square kilometres), of which seven square miles constitute the city proper. Territorial isolation has been a basic feature of this ...(100 of 3610 words)

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