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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

Her deputies, the burgomaster Roist, the banneret Schweizer and Jost von Knosen, appeared in Aarau with binding instructions.

From The Life and Times of Ulric Zwingli by Johann Jakob Hottinger

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