Montreux is a municipality in the district of Vevey in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.
It is located on Lake Geneva at the foot of the Alps and has (as of December 2007) a population of 23,800.
Montreux lies on the north east shore of Lake Geneva at the fork in the Roman road from Italy over the Simplon Pass, where the roads to the Roman capital of Aventicum and the road into Gaul through Besançon separated. This made it an important settlemen...
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Montreux is a municipality in the district of Vevey in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.
It is located on Lake Geneva at the foot of the Alps and has (as of December 2007) a population of 23,800.
Montreux lies on the north east shore of Lake Geneva at the fork in the Roman road from Italy over the Simplon Pass, where the roads to the Roman capital of Aventicum and the road into Gaul through Besançon separated. This made it an important settlement already in Roman times.
In the 12th century, viticulture was introduced to the region, and the sunny slopes of the lake from Lavaux to Montreux became an important wine-growing region.
The region was subject to various princes, most notably the princes of Savoy from the south side of the lake. They unified the territory which comprises the present canton of Vaud and were generally popular sovereigns.
After the Burgundian Wars in the 15th century, the Swiss in Berne occupied the region without resistance, an indication of the weakness of the...
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