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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
named for Schwyz, one of its original cantons. On postage stamps, etc., identified by the Roman name for the region, Helvetia, to avoid having to print the four different forms of the name in the countryâs four official languages: Suisse, Schweiz, Svizzera, Svizra.
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 4226
Land area (2000): 221.181032 sq. miles (572.856219 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 2.340200 sq. miles (6.061090 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 223.521232 sq. miles (578.917309 sq. km)
Located within: Indiana (IN), FIPS 18
Location: 38.820999 N, 84.989245 W
Headwords:
Switzerland, IN
Switzerland County
Switzerland County, IN
Wikipedia
Switzerland , officially the Swiss Confederation) is a federal republic in Europe. While still named the "Swiss Confederation" for historical reasons, modern Switzerland is a federal directorial republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities, called '"federal city" (, , ). The country is situated in Western and Central Europe, and is bordered by Italy to the south, France to the west, Germany to the north, and Austria and Liechtenstein to the east. Switzerland is a landlocked country geographically divided between the Alps, the Swiss Plateau and the Jura, spanning an area of . While the Alps occupy the greater part of the territory, the Swiss population of approximately eight million people is concentrated mostly on the plateau, where the largest cities are to be found: among them are the two global and economic centers Zürich and Geneva.
The establishment of the Swiss Confederation is traditionally dated to 1 August 1291, which is celebrated annually as the Swiss National Day. The country has a long history of armed neutrality—it has not been in a state of war internationally since 1815—and did not join the United Nations until 2002. Nevertheless, it pursues an active foreign policy and is frequently involved in peace-building processes around the world. In addition to being the birthplace of the Red Cross, Switzerland is home to numerous international organizations, including the second largest UN office. On the European level, it is a founding member of the European Free Trade Association, but notably it is not part of the European Union, nor the European Economic Area. However, the country does participate in the Schengen Area and the EU's single market through a number of bilateral treaties.
Spanning the intersection of Germanic and Romance Europe, Switzerland comprises four main linguistic and cultural regions: German, French, Italian and Romansh. Although the majority of the population are German speaking, Swiss national identity is rooted in a common historical background, shared values such as federalism and direct democracy, and Alpine symbolism. Due to its linguistic diversity, Switzerland is known by a variety of native names: Schweiz ( German); Suisse ( French); Svizzera ( Italian); and Svizra or ( Romansh).
Switzerland is one of the most developed countries in the world, with the highest nominal wealth per adult and the eighth-highest per capita gross domestic product according to the IMF. Switzerland ranks at or near the top globally in several metrics of national performance, including government transparency, civil liberties, quality of life, economic competitiveness, and human development. Zürich and Geneva have each been ranked among the top cities in the world in terms of quality of life, with the former ranked second globally, according to Mercer.
Switzerland is the title of the third album by Detroit rock band Electric Six.
The album consists of thirteen new tracks. The band commented that:
A music video for the song "I Buy the Drugs" was recorded on July 1, 2006 and was released on their MySpace site in early August. A digital download of the track followed on August 15, 2006.
The album was released on September 12, 2006 in the United States and was followed by releases in the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands and Scandinavia.
Switzerland is an open source network-monitoring utility developed and released by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). Its goal is to monitor network traffic between two systems running the program to see if the user's Internet service provider is violating network neutrality, like Comcast did in 2007 with the BitTorrent protocol.
Switzerland was featured in the Technology section of an issue of New Scientist in August 2008.
Switzerland is a country in Europe.
Switzerland may also refer to:
- Bohemian Switzerland, a region in the north-western Czech Republic
- Franconian Switzerland, an upland in Upper Franconia, northern Bavaria
- Holstein Switzerland, a hilly area in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
- Norman Switzerland, a hilly area in Normandy, France
- Saxon Switzerland, a mountainous area and national park near Dresden in Saxony, Germany
- Switzerland, Florida, an unincorporated community in the United States
- Switzerland, South Carolina, in the United States
- Switzerland County, Indiana, a county in southeastern Indiana in the United States
- Switzerland Township, Monroe County, Ohio, a civil township in southeastern Ohio in the United States
- Switzerland (album), a 2006 album by Electric Six
- Little Switzerland (landscape), an aesthetic term for land
- Switzerland (software), a packet monitor tool for ISP testing
Usage examples of "switzerland".
Sentis, and Appenzell, by the middle of the fifteenth century, became one of the original states out of which Switzerland has grown.
The fight against the Past is thus seen to be the fight against the extra-European forces, for it is they who are perpetuating the atomizing of Europe, the Balkanization of a Culture, the Switzerland of the West.
And for the first time, Colonel Baraka wondered how King Adras liked Switzerland, and whether he might enjoy it there himself.
As from the Bernese Oberland and from the valleys of the Reuss and Limmath gigantic glaciers came down and stretched across the plain of Switzerland to the Jura, scattering their erratic boulders over its summit and upon its slopes at the time of their greater extension, and, as they withdrew into the higher Alpine valleys, leaving them along their retreating track at the foot of the Jura and over the whole plain, so did the glaciers from Glen Prossen and parallel valleys on the Grampian Mountains extend across the valley of Strathmore, dropping their boulders not only on the slopes and along the base of the Sidlaw Hills, but scattering them in their retreat throughout the valley, until they were themselves reduced to isolated glaciers in the higher valleys.
At the same time other glaciers came down from the heights of Schihallion on the west, and, descending through the valley of the Tay, joined the great masses of ice in the valley of Strathmore, thus combining with the eastern ice-field, just as the glacier from Mont Blanc and the valley of the Rhone formerly combined in the western part of Switzerland with those of the Bernese Oberland.
In any event there is not as much money in all of Boca Grande as Victor and Bianca and Antonio and Isabel and Elena accuse me of having secreted in Switzerland.
Hollywood, where she traveled to bone up on dance classes and shoot the interior scenes, Audrey and Ferrer rented a small house in Malibu owned by director Anatole Litvak and furnished it with candlesticks, cachepots, silver framed photos, and blue glass vases from Switzerland.
SWITZERLAND by Jacques Casanova de Seingalt MEMOIRS OF JACQUES CASANOVA de SEINGALT 1725-1798 THE ETERNAL QUEST, Volume 3e--WITH VOLTAIRE THE RARE UNABRIDGED LONDON EDITION OF 1894 TRANSLATED BY ARTHUR MACHEN TO WHICH HAS BEEN ADDED THE CHAPTERS DISCOVERED BY ARTHUR SYMONS.
WITH VOLTAIRE by Jacques Casanova de Seingalt MEMOIRS OF JACQUES CASANOVA de SEINGALT 1725-1798 ADVENTURES IN THE SOUTH, Volume 4a--DEPART SWITZERLAND THE RARE UNABRIDGED LONDON EDITION OF 1894 TRANSLATED BY ARTHUR MACHEN TO WHICH HAS BEEN ADDED THE CHAPTERS DISCOVERED BY ARTHUR SYMONS.
DEPART SWITZERLAND by Jacques Casanova de Seingalt MEMOIRS OF JACQUES CASANOVA de SEINGALT 1725-1798 ADVENTURES IN THE SOUTH, Volume 4b--RETURN TO ITALY THE RARE UNABRIDGED LONDON EDITION OF 1894 TRANSLATED BY ARTHUR MACHEN TO WHICH HAS BEEN ADDED THE CHAPTERS DISCOVERED BY ARTHUR SYMONS.
Above all, the minority groups felt that the Czechoslovak government had not honored the promises made by Masaryk and Benes to the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 to establish a cantonal system similar to that of Switzerland.
Board of Trade, in its reports on agencies and methods of dealing with unemployed in foreign countries, drew attention to the very considerable extension of Labour Exchanges in the last three years in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, and Belgium.
Regardless of how they have assembled themselves, they cannot grow and preserve enough of their mild, fiberless preserved ginger to satisfy the sweet tooths of Great Britain, West Germany, Holland, Switzerland, and Norway.
It was while studying the Old Testament at the University of Fribourg, in Switzerland, that I first paid any attention to the close relationship between David and Jonathan.
A braver man than Melchior de Willading did not dwell in all Switzerland, but he did not hear the gloomy predictions of the Genoese without shaking in every limb.