Bern (disambiguation)

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Bern (or Berne) is the capital of Switzerland.

Bern or Berne may also refer to:

Places

Germany

Italy

Netherlands

  • Bern (Netherlands), hamlet in Gelderland

United States

People

  • Dietrich von Bern (Theodoric the Great), king of the Ostrogoths (Bern being the present-day Verona, Italy)
  • Eric Berne, psychologist, founder of Transactional Analysis
  • Tim Berne, American musician
  • Suzanne Berne, American novelist

Other uses

Berne is sometimes also used as shorthand for:

  • The Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works
  • The Berne Convention on the conservation of European wildlife and natural habitats
  • SS Berne, a Burmese coastal tanker
  • Bern is Scots for the farm building a barn
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