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    Muslim World League and constructed in 1978 in the neighborhood of Le Petit-Saconnex. The mosque was inaugurated by the Saudi Arabian King Khalid ibn Abd...
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    and Louise Cabrol married on 19 March 1741 at the parish church of Le Petit-Saconnex, a district of Geneva. One of Marat's brothers, David Mara (born in...
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    formed the ancient urban part of the Republic of Geneva (Eaux-Vives, le Petit-Saconnex, Plainpalais, and Geneva) merged to form the modern city of Geneva...
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    the age of 55 one must stop). Osterman-Tolstoy finally settled in Le Petit-Saconnex in Geneva (Switzerland) in 1837, where he died in 1857. Nikolai Tolstoy...
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    Le Grand-Saconnex, Lancy, Meyrin, Onex and Vernier. Geneva's first trolleybus line, inaugurated on 11 September 1942, linked Champel with Le Petit-Saconnex...
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    Council. Nelly Rosset was born on 2 March 1923 in the commune of Le Petit-Saconnex, now a part of the city of Geneva. Her father, Robert Rosset, was...
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    the election, campaigners drove a vehicle near Geneva Mosque in the Le Petit-Saconnex imitating the adhan, the Islamic call to ritual prayer (salat) using...
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    respectively, of Fribourg and Vaud. He spent his childhood in Geneva's Le Petit-Saconnex quarter, which is where he attended primary school. A close school...
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  • signed. 1930 Population: 124,121 in city; 171,366 in canton. Les Eaux-Vives [fr], Le Petit-Saconnex [fr] and Plainpalais become part of city. 1932 November:...
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    1971 to vote in national elections and serve in federal office; in Le Petit-Saconnex, Canton of Geneva (d. 2020) The first issue of TIME magazine, weekly...
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