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The densely populated Swiss plateau: View from the Uetliberg on Zürich. Even though the Swiss plateau takes only about 30% of the surface of Switzerland, 5 million people live there, that is more than two thirds of the Swiss population. The population density is 380 people per square kilometer. All the Swiss cities with more than 50 000 inhabitants except Basel are situated in the plateau, especially Bern, Geneva, Lausanne and Zürich. The agglomerations of these cities are the most populated areas. Other densely populate ...

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Victorinox is a knife manufacturer headquartered in the town of Ibach, Switzerland. It is primarily known as one of the two official suppliers of Swiss Army knives. Victorinox - History. The company was founded in 1884. Since 1891 the company has delivered knives to the Swiss army. Their famous emblem — a cross in a shield — has been used by Victorinox since 1909. That year, the mother of founder Karl Elsener passed away and he changed the name of the company to "Victoria" in her honor. In 1921, with th ...

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Switzerland is home to about 450 varieties of cheese. Cow milk is used in about 99 percent of the cheeses produced. The remaining share is made up of sheep milk and goat milk. Cheeses of Switzerland - Some well-known Swiss cheeses. Cheeses of Switzerland - extra-hard. Sbrinz Cheeses of Switzerland - hard. Emmentaler, generally known in the U.S. as "Swiss cheese" Gruyère/Greyerzer Berner AlpkäseIncluding:

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The Swiss Confederation or Switzerland (Latin: Confoederatio Helvetica) is a landlocked federal republic in Europe, bordering Germany, France, Italy, Austria and Liechtenstein. The country has a strong tradition of political and military neutrality, but also of international cooperation, and is home to many international organisations. Confoederatio Helvetica is the Latin official name. The use of Latin avoids having to choose one of the four official languages. The abbreviation (CH) is similarly used; for ...

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Swiss plateau - Geological layers. Thanks to many deep drillings for oil and gas, the geological layers of the Swiss plateau are relatively well known. The base level is cristalline basement which outcrops in the central cristalline Alps as well as in the Black Forest and in the Vosges mountain range but forms a deep geosynclinal in the Swiss plateau and in the Jura. Around 2500 – 3000 meters below the ground, but considerably deeper near the Alps, the drillings have hit the cristalline basement. It is covered ...

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The twenty-six cantons of Switzerland are the states of the federal state of Switzerland. Historically and until the mid-19th century, each canton in the then-confederation was a sovereign state, with its own borders, army, and currency; the current federal structure was established in 1848. During the sixteenth century, the Swiss Confederation was composed of thirteen self-governed states. These states were called cantons, and there were two different kinds of cantons: the six forest cantons and seven urban cantons. Though the ...

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An arrow is a pointed projectile that is shot with a bow. It predates recorded history and is common to most cultures. An arrow consists of a long and thin shaft made formerly of wood and now also from aluminium or carbon fiber composite. It is pointed or armed with an arrowhead at one end and with a nock or notch in the other. Arrowheads fit hunting and military purpose better than a mere point, which is mostly useful for target-shooting. Near the notch end are vanes which keep the arrow pointed in the direction of trav ...

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Because of the comparingly easy topography and the dense population, the transport network is highly developed. The most important transversal, so to speak the backbone of the Swiss plateau, is the A1 motorway that connects all the big cities going from Geneva over Lausanne, Bern, Zürich and Winterthur until St. Gallen. The A2, the Swiss north-south axis, crosses the plateau from Olten to Luzern. The railway network is very dense. All major cities are connected, and between Olten and Lausanne, there are two main lines: One passing ov ...

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In the north and northwest, the Swiss plateau is sharply delimited geographically and geologically by the Jura mountains. In the south, there is no clear border with the Alps. Usually, the rising of the terrain to altitudes above 1500 meters AMSL (lime Alps, partly subalpine molasse), which is very abrupt in certain places, is taken as a criterion for delimination. Occasionally the regions of the higher Swiss plateau, especially the hills of the canton of Fribourg, the Napf region, the Töss region and parts of the Appenzell region are consi ...

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Even though the Swiss plateau forms a basin, it is by no means a flat territory, but depending on the region, it has a manifold structure. Important elements are the two big lakes, the lake Geneva and the lake Constance that delimit the Swiss plateau in the southwest and the northeast. The western plateau is stamped by the Gros de Vaud plateau (up to 600 meters AMSL) and the Jorat molasse hills (up to 900 meters AMSL) but sometimes intersected by deep valleys. Only near the Jura there is an almost continuous dip consisting of the Venoge and ...

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The Swiss plateau is situated within a transition zone between humid oceanic climate and continental temperate climate. The predominant wind comes from the west. In the lower plateau, the mean annual temperature is about 9 – 10 °C. In January, the lake Geneva region and the watersides of lake Neuchâtel and lake Biel have the highest mean temperature of about +1 °C. At the same height AMSL, the temperature is decreasing towards the east. In the lake Constance region, the mean temperature of the coldest month is -1 °C. In July, the mean ...

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Thanks to favourable climate and fertile grounds, the lower western plateau is the most important agricultural region of Switzerland. The most important cultures are wheat, barley, maize, sugar beet and potato; especially in the Seeland, vegetables are very important, too. Along the northern shores of the lakes of Geneva, Neuchâtel, Biel, Murten as well as in the Zürich Weinland and Klettgau, there is viticulture. Grassland with dairy farming and beef production is predominant in the eastern plateau and in the higher regions. Especially in ...

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The Swiss Guard as part of the Military of the Vatican City is an exception to the Swiss rulings of 1874 and 1927. It is a small force responsible for the security of the Apostolic Palace, the entrances to the Vatican City and the safety of the Pope. Pope Julius II in 1505 asked the Swiss Federal Tagsatzung to provide him with a constant corps of 200 Swiss mercenaries. In September 1505, a first contingent of 150 soldiers started their march towards Rome, under the command of Kaspar von Silenen, and entered the Vatican o ...

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As a result of the Everlasting Peace between Switzerland and France declared in 1516, Swiss mercenaries have played their most important roles in the military history of France. Francis I of France used some 120,000 Swiss levies in his wars, and in the battle of Pavia (1525) his personal guard, the Hundred Swiss ("Cent Suisses"), were slain before Francis was captured by the Spanish. Under Louis XIV, the Swiss troops were organized in two categories, with the Swiss Guard forming part of the King's military household, separate f ...

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As Alemannic dialects, Swiss German dialects did not participate in the second German vowel shift during medieval times - they use mostly the same vowels as Middle High German. As such, even though the Alemannic dialects belong to High German, their vowels are closer to Low German than other High German dialects or standard German. An exception are certain central Swiss dialects, e.g. the Uri dialect. Examples: Most Swiss German dialects, being High-Alemannic dialects, have completed the High German consonant shift, that is, th ...

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Swiss German dialects are usually not written, but only spoken. All formal writing, newspapers, books and much of informal writing is done in Standard German, which is usually called Schriftdeutsch (written German). Certain dialectal words are accepted regionalisms in Swiss Standard German and are also sanctioned by the Duden, e.g. Zvieri (afternoon snack). There exist relatively few written works in Swiss dialects. Today especially young people use the dialect more and more in informal written communication (e.g. e-mail or SMS). However, most write standard ...

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Unlike most dialects in modern Europe, Swiss German is the spoken everyday language of all social levels in industrial cities as well as in the countryside. Using dialect conveys no social or educational inferiority. There are only a few specific settings where speaking Standard German is demanded or polite, e.g. in education (but not during breaks), in multilingual parliaments (the federal parliaments and a few cantonal and municipal ones), in the main news broadcast or in the presence of German-speaking foreigners. This situation has been called a medial diglossia since the spoken language is mainly the dialect whereas the written ...

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The vocabulary is rather rich - especially in rural areas there are many special terms retained, e.g. regarding cattle or weather. In the cities, much of the rural vocabulary has been lost. Most borrowings come from Standard German. Many of these are now so common that they have totally replace the original Swiss German words, e.g. the words Hügel 'hill' (instead of Egg, Bühl), Lippe 'lip' (instead of Lefzge). Others have replaced the original words only in parts of Switzerland, e.g. Butter 'butter ...

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