Avenches
Avenches is a town of about 3,000 people in the Three Lakes area of Switzerland. Avenches is noted for the Roman ruins that remain from the time when the area was a major Roman outpost.
- Village with 4,880 residents
- …lies at an elevation of 480 metres (1,575 feet)
- …is also known as “Avenches VD”
- Description: municipality in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland
- Postal code: 1580
Places of Interest
Highlights include Avenches railway station and Avenches Castle.
Avenches Castle
Castle
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Domdidier and Villarepos.
Domdidier
Village
Villarepos
Village
Donatyre
Village
Avenches
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Latitude
46.8796° or 46° 52′ 47″ north
Longitude
7.0409° or 7° 2′ 27″ east
UN/LOCODE
CH AVE
Open location code
8FR9V2HR+R9
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Waray—“Avenches” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Ավանշ”
- Arpitan: “Avencho”
- Basque: “Avenches”
- Breton: “Avenches”
- Breton: “Aventso”
- Catalan: “Avenches”
- Cebuano: “Avenches”
- Chinese: “阿旺什”
- Czech: “Avenches”
- Dutch: “Avenches”
- Egyptian Arabic: “افخم”
- Esperanto: “Avenches”
- French: “Avenches VD”
- French: “Avenches”
- Galician: “Avenches”
- German: “Avenches VD”
- German: “Avenches”
- Greek: “Αβάνς”
- Hungarian: “Avenches”
- Irish: “Avenches”
- Italian: “Avenches VD”
- Italian: “Avenches”
- Japanese: “アヴァンシェ”
- Japanese: “アヴァンシュ”
- Korean: “아방슈”
- Kurdish: “Avenches”
- Latin: “Aventicum”
- Lombard: “Avenches”
- Malay: “Avenches”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Avenches”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Avenches”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Avenches”
- Persian: “اوانش”
- Polish: “Avenches”
- Portuguese: “Avenches”
- Romanian: “Avenches”
- Romansh: “Avenches”
- Russian: “Аванш”
- Russian: “Ава́нш”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Avenches”
- Sicilian: “Avenches”
- Slovenian: “Avenches”
- Spanish: “Avenches”
- Swedish: “Avenches”
- Swiss German: “Avenches”
- Turkish: “Avenches”
- Ukrainian: “Аванш”
- Upper Sorbian: “Avenches”
- Urdu: “ایوینچز”
- Venetian: “Avenches”
- Volapük: “Avenches”
- Waray (Philippines): “Avenches”
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