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Definition of Basel

1. Noun. A city in northwestern Switzerland.

Definition of Basel

1. Proper noun. A city in Switzerland. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Basel

Literary usage of Basel

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"In Basel, the last place he had planned to visit, he found a response. ... Basel was made the headquarters at the end of 1782, and a manifold activity ..."

2. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero, Ernest Alfred Benians (1909)
"... strife and even to a regular civil war—in the Canton of Basel. Here the rulers of their own accord undertook the amendment of the Cantonal Constitution. ..."

3. Church History by Johann Heinrich Kurtz (1889)
"of Cnsa (§ 113, 6) also for a long time was one of the most zealous friends of reform in the Basel Council.—(6) Felix Hemmerlin, canon at Zürich, ..."

4. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"The museum at Basel also possesses a number of sketches for his religious paintings. His brother SIGISMUND ( M540) first appears on the rate-books of ..."

5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"Again, looking at the " Virgin " and " Man of Sorrows " in the Basel museum, we shall be struck by a searching metallic style akin to that of the Ferrarese; ..."

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