Crossword clues for zurich
zurich
- Switzerland's most populous canton
- Switzerland's largest city
- Swiss financial capital
- Swiss city known for early Dada art
- Swiss banking city
- Swiss banking center
- Site of Credit Suisse's headquarters
- Largest city in Switzerland
- Home to the art museum Centre Le Corbusier
- Financial center of Switzerland
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
city and lake in Switzerland, German Zürich, said to be ultimately from Celtic root *dur- "water."
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 60
Land area (2000): 0.172221 sq. miles (0.446051 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.172221 sq. miles (0.446051 sq. km)
FIPS code: 81025
Located within: Kansas (KS), FIPS 20
Location: 39.232810 N, 99.434814 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 67676
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Zurich
Wikipedia
Zürich is the largest city in Switzerland.
Zürich may also refer to: D2 323
Zurich is a live album by Praxis, released in 2005 by the label Innerhythmic. The album is a recording of their performance at the Jazznojazz Festival in Zurich, Switzerland on June 21, 1996. Other selected parts were recorded live at the Knitting Factory, NYC on June 30, 2000.
The song "Transmutation" was originally only one song but was split into 5 parts for the final track listing. The song "Giant Robot" is a version of the song from the album Bucketheadland by guitarist Buckethead in 1992.
Zürich or Zurich (, Swiss Standard German: , German Standard German , Swiss German: , , , ) is the largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zürich. It is located in north-central Switzerland at the northwestern tip of Lake Zürich. The municipality has approximately 400,028 inhabitants, the urban agglomeration 1.315 million, and the Zurich metropolitan area 1.83 million. Zürich is a hub for railways, roads, and air traffic. Both Zürich Airport and railway station are the largest and busiest in the country.
Permanently settled for around 2000 years, Zürich has a history that goes back to its founding by the Romans, who, in 15 BC, called it . However, early settlements have been found dating back more than 6400 years ago. During the Middle Ages, Zürich gained the independent and privileged status of imperial immediacy and, in 1519, became a primary centre of the Protestant Reformation in Europe under the leadership of Ulrich Zwingli.
The official language of Zürich is (the Swiss variety of Standard) German, but the main spoken language is the local variant of the Alemannic Swiss German dialect.
Zürich is a leading global city and among the world's largest financial centres despite having a relatively low population. The city is home to a large number of financial institutions and banking giants. Most of Switzerland's research and development centres are concentrated in Zürich and the low tax rates attract overseas companies to set up their headquarters there.
Monocle's 2012 "Quality of Life Survey" ranked Zürich first on a list of the top 25 cities in the world "to make a base within". According to several surveys from 2006 to 2008, Zürich was named the city with the best quality of life in the world as well as the wealthiest city in Europe. The Economist Intelligence Unit's Global Liveability Ranking sees Zürich rank among the top ten most liveable cities in the world.
Many museums and art galleries can be found in the city, including the Swiss National Museum and the Kunsthaus. Schauspielhaus Zürich is one of the most important theatres in the German-speaking world.
Zurich is a live performance album by Borbetomagus, released in 1984 by Agaric Records.
Usage examples of "zurich".
As early as 1525 the Anabaptists were persecuted at Zurich, where one of their earliest communities sprouted.
One large file of correspondence with Augsburg and Zurich on College of Arms writing-paper and the writing-paper of the addressees.
I studied for two years in Tel Aviv, fifteen months in London, a year in Rome, and one very rainy spring in Zurich.
Hotz-Osterwald of Zurich, antiquarian and scholar, has asserted that with the exception of the carbon inks employed on papyrus, the writing pigments of antiquity and the Middle Ages have scarcely been investigated.
A collection of four major essays based on lectures given by Meier, the Director of the Jung Institute in Zurich, at the Andover Newton Theological School.
Such people as Bela Zurich meant little to Weston in comparison and as for Mata Safi, the commissioner had never heard of her.
That by the time we noticed the matchfolder Runciter would be in cold-pac, in Zurich, like the matchfolder says?
Not to be outdone, a few nonsporting types in the Legislature took pleasure jaunts to Parisand Zurich, Monte Carlo, Vail, LakeTahoe, New Orleans, Breckenridge, Treasure Cay and St.
The first one told me to take the Ruritanian consignment to Zurich, but the Swiss buyer backed out at the last minute.
They would skirt the center of Zurich and head toward Kloten, turning right at the Schlieren fork and follow the central road toward Bulach.
The chief towns, Berne and Bale, imitated the example of Zurich, where Zwingli committed the government of the Church to the authorities that governed the State, differing from the Lutherans in this, that Zwinglianism was republican and revolutionary.
There are hundreds of them: smooth black Fred Astaire canes and rough chewed alpenstocks, blackthorns and quarterstaffs, cudgels and swagger sticks, bamboo and ironwood, maple and slippery elm, canes from Tangier, Maine, Zurich, Panama City, Quebec, Togoland, the Dakotas and Borneo, resting in notched compartments that resemble arms racks in an armory.
This is the only species of entertainment allowed at Zurich, and only members of the musical society can be present, with the exception of strangers, who have to be introduced by a member, and are then admitted on the payment of a crown.
And you who would bury yourselves in monastic shades, persevere, if you can, after you have seen what I saw at Zurich on April 23rd.
When I awoke I heard that the abbot of Einsiedel was at Zurich, and my landlord told me that his reverend highness would dine with me in my room.