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Aarau

American  
[ahr-au] / ˈɑr aʊ /

noun

  1. a town in and capital of Aargau, in N Switzerland.


Aarau British  
/ ˈaːrau /

noun

  1. a town in N Switzerland, capital of Aargau canton: capital of the Helvetic Republic from 1798 to 1803. Pop: 15 470 (2000)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Aarau, home to approximately 23,000 people, is less than 40km from the border with Germany, where local media reported police were supporting Swiss forces.

From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026

He stored them in the cavernous depot he had built under his castle at Brestenberg, near the Swiss city of Aarau.

From New York Times ● Feb. 7, 2023

Stepping in close, I found a few little black marks left in the soft metal by the compressed sand in which the cube had been molded in Aarau, Switzerland.

From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2022

Until a few years ago, he had a day job teaching clarinet to children at the Aarau Music School.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 29, 2019

Then were silenced All the trumpeters from Frickthal, Those from Solothurn and Aarau, By the trumpeter great Rassmann.

From The Trumpeter of Säkkingen A Song from the Upper Rhine. by Joseph Victor von Scheffel

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