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French Genève German Genf Italian Ginevra
City (pop., 2001 est.: urban agglom., 464,000), capital of Geneva canton, southwestern Switzerland.
At the tip of Lake Geneva on the Rhône River , it was by the 6th century BC a centre of the Celtic Allobroges and was later conquered by the Romans. In the 16th century Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the sanctuary of Voltaire , it attracted the elite of the Enlightenment . It joined the Swiss Confederation in 1814. It was the site of the Geneva Convention in 1864, and the League of Nations was founded there in 1919. An international hub of commerce and finance, it is the headquarters of the International Red Cross (1864) and the European branch of the United Nations .
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