SOLEURE, an ancient and extremely neat town of Switzerland, capital of the canton of the same name. It contains about 4000 inhabitants, and is pleasantly seated on the Aar, which here expands into a noble river. Among the most remarkable objects of curiosity in this town is the new church of St Urs, which was begun in 1762 and finished in 1772; a noble edifice of a whitish grey stone or coarse marble, which admits a polish. This building cost at least 80,000l. a considerable sum for such a small republic, whose revenue scarcely exceeds 12,000l. a-year. Solure is surrounded by regular stone fortifications, and is 20 miles north-north-east of Bern, 27 south-south-west of Basle, and 45 west of Zurich. E. Long. 7. 20. N. Lat. 47. 15.