In Austria, as in the German-speaking parts of Switzerland and in southern Germany, verbs that express a state tend to use sein as the auxiliary verb in the perfect, as well as verbs of movement.

In parts of Austria, Bavaria and German-speaking Switzerland it is called Ostereiertitschen or Eierpecken.

During the Middle Ages Zurich gained the independent and privileged status of imperial immediacy and, in 1519, was the place of origin and centre of the Protestant Reformation in German-speaking Switzerland, led by Ulrich Zwingli.

There are many places in Europe, most notably in France, Italy, and the German-speaking countries ( Germany, Switzerland, Austria ) where the model of EMS is different, and physicians take a more direct, ' hands-on ' approach to pre-hospital care.

" and " gäll / gell at the end of sentences in German-speaking Switzerland, especially in the Zurich area.

In Italy and the Italian-and German-speaking parts of Switzerland, the sweet varieties are called " peperone " and the hot varieties " peperoncino " ( literally " small pepper ").

Zug ( German: French: Zoug, Italian: Zugo, Romansch: Zug, Latin: named in the 16th century: Tugium ), is a German-speaking city in Switzerland.

It was then known in the German-speaking part of Switzerland as Bratchäs, or " roasted cheese.

The Nazis portrayed Swedes, the Afrikaaners who are white European descendants of Dutch-speaking Boers in South Africa and higher-degree Northern / Western Europeans of South America ( mainly from Uruguay, Brazil and Argentina ) as ideal " Aryans " along with the German-speaking peoples of Greater Germany and Switzerland ( the country was neutral during the war ).

Today, peoples from countries with a German-speaking majority or significant German-speaking population groups other than Germany, such as Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein and Luxembourg, have developed their own national identity and usually do not refer to themselves as " Germans " in a modern context.

For example, some Amish and Mennonites came to the Palatinate and surrounding areas from the German-speaking part of Switzerland, where, as Anabaptists, they were persecuted, and so their stay in the Palatinate was of limited duration.

* In German-speaking Switzerland, there is no such continuum between the Swiss German varieties and Swiss Standard German, and the use of standard German is almost entirely restricted to the written language.

Of all the German-speaking countries Switzerland has however retained its ability to use dialect in everyday situations, also a commonplace phenomenon in southern Germany, Austria, Liechtenstein, Alsace, and South Tyrol.

The 1996 spelling reform was based on an international agreement signed by the governments of the German-speaking countries Germany, Austria, Liechtenstein, and Switzerland ; but acceptance of the reform was limited.

The ancestors of Pennsylvania German speakers came from various parts of the southwest corner of the German-speaking region of Europe, including the Electorate of the Palatinate, the Duchy of Baden ( Badenland ), Swabia, Württemberg, Alsace ( German Elsass ), and Switzerland.

Lucerne (;, ;, ;, ; ; Lucerne German: Lozärn ) is a city in north-central Switzerland, in the German-speaking portion of that country.

However, it is not used in all German-speaking countries, in particular not in Switzerland nor Liechtenstein.

Lye pretzels are popular in southern Germany, Alsace, Austria and German-speaking Switzerland as a variety of bread, a side dish or a snack, and come in many local varieties.

In the Low Countries and German-speaking Europe this position was known as baljuw ( from bailli ), but other words were used such as schout " reeve, ( medieval ) bailiff " ( Holland, Antwerp, Mechelen ,'s-Hertogenbosch, Turnhout ), meier " majordomo " ( Asse, Leuven ), drossāte " steward, seneschal " ( other parts of Brabant ), amman ( Brussels ), and Amtmann and Ammann ( Germany, Switzerland, Austria ).

In the South and the South West of Germany and in German-speaking Switzerland they are still commonly known as Mohrenkopf.

* The German-speaking nations ( Germany, Austria, Liechtenstein, Switzerland ) established national, normative spelling usages for their respective varieties of the language by statute with the German orthography reform of 1996.

It is famous in other countries as well — including German-speaking Switzerland and South Africa.

The reform was based on an international agreement signed in Vienna in July 1996 by the governments of the German-speaking countries of Germany, Austria, Liechtenstein and Switzerland.

On July 1, 1996, all of the German states ( Bundesländer ), and the countries of Austria, Switzerland, and Liechtenstein, as well as some other countries with German-speaking minorities ( but notably not Luxembourg ) agreed to introduce the new spelling by August 1, 1998.

The early personages most cited for propounding composting within farming are for the German-speaking world Rudolf Steiner, founder of a farming method called biodynamics, and Annie Francé-Harrar, who was appointed on behalf of the government in Mexico and supported the country 1950 – 1958 to set up a large humus organization in the fight against erosion and soil degradation.

Because of the Germans ' role in the Protestant Reformation, Hegel ( a Lutheran ) argued that his historical moment had seen the Zeitgeist settle on the German-speaking peoples.

From then on, these three Communities were known as the Flemish Community, the French Community and the German-speaking Community.

Styria's population before World War I was 68 % German-speaking, 32 % Slovene, bordered on ( clockwise ) Lower Austria, Hungary, Croatia, Carniola, Carinthia, Salzburg, and Upper Austria.

The specific term ' sociology of knowledge ' first came into widespread use in the 1920s, when a number of German-speaking sociologists, most notably Max Scheler, and Karl Mannheim, wrote extensively on it.

The preference for German and Austrian composers in Germany in the 1920s through the 1940s was typical of the German nationalism that existed after World War I. Strauss clearly capitalized on national pride for the great German-speaking composers.

On the other hand, English crime writer Edgar Wallace, who was immensely popular with the English readership during the early decades of the 20th century ( and who achieved fame in German-speaking countries due to the many B movies made in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s that were based on his novels ), had almost been forgotten in his home country until House of Stratus eventually started republishing many of his 170 books around the turn of the millennium.

The German-speaking city was thus secured for the newly formed State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs, which united with the Kingdom of Serbia into the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes on December 1.

He then moved to Paris, presenting Le puits d ' amour ( 1843 ) in early 1843, followed by his opera based on Les quatre fils Aymon ( 1844 ) for the Opéra-Comique ( also popular in German-speaking countries for many years as Die Vier Haimonskinder ) and L ' étoile de Seville ( 1845 ) for the Opéra.

As German nationalism grew strongly inside of the German Confederation and neither of them could decide on how Germany was going to be unified into a nation-state, the Austrians were favouring the Greater Germany unification but were not willing to give up any of the German-speaking land inside of the Austrian Empire and take second place to Prussia, the Prussians on the other hand wanted to unify Germany as Little Germany primarily by the Kingdom of Prussia whilst excluding Austria.

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BASF was founded on 6 April 1865 in Mannheim, in the German-speaking country of Baden by Friedrich Engelhorn.

The settlement of the area around what was to become Blair began in 1800 with the arrival of Samuel D. Betzner, one of a group of German-speaking Mennonites who originated in Pennsylvania. Although he was the first settler in Blair and Cambridge, Samuel D. Betzner had little influence on the development of the community.

In November, the girls embarked on their second national concert tour, the Four Seasons Tour, playing sell-out shows in theatres across German-speaking Europe.

A bread pretzel popular in southern Germany and adjoining German-speaking areas, as well as in some areas of the United States, is made from wheat flour, water and yeast, usually sprinkled with coarse salt, hand-sized and made for consumption on the same day.

Reinhold Messner ( born 17 September 1944 ) is a mountaineer, adventurer and explorer from the Italian German-speaking autonomous province South Tyrol, " whose astonishing feats on Everest and on peaks throughout the world have earned him the status of the greatest climber in history.

In the early modern period, Locarno developed into a thriving commercial center on an important road that linked the major cities of Lombardy, with German-speaking Switzerland and Germany.

At all universities of the German-speaking part of Switzerland, the students need to have a high score on an aptitude test that comprises logical and spatial thinking and text understanding skills.

The university was modelled on the University of Prague, from which the German-speaking faculty members withdrew to Leipzig after the Jan Hus crisis and the Decree of Kutná Hora.

He traveled on April 2, 1786, to the modern-day Dubrovnik ( a vassal city of the Ottoman Empire, then better known with other, Italian name Ragusa ), and then to Constantinople in Turkey ( until September 23, 1786 ), Russia, ( from September 26, 1786 until September 7, 1787, slightly under one year ), Sweden, ( in Stockholm as from September 10, 1787 until November 2, 1787 ), Norway, from November 10, 1787 until departing from Karlskrona in Sweden from December 17, 1787 ), Denmark ( from September 23, 1787 until March 10, 1788 after being received in Denmark orders of capture from Spain no later than January 22, 1788 ), the Free Hanseatic Town of Hamburg, ( from ( April 1, 1788 until the April 27, 1788 ), the Free Town of Bremen, ( leaving on April 27 ), Holland, ( from around the May 2, 1788 until around June 16, 1788 ), some actual Belgian towns and German cities along the Rhine river, Swiss Basel, ( arrival July 30, 1788, and then again after touring German-speaking Switzerland on October 12, 1788 ), Swiss Geneva ( arrival September 25, 1788 ), and France, ( entry around the 3rd and 4th weeks of September 1788, two stays in Marseilles, the second departing there towards Bordeaux on February 26, 1789 via inland waterways ), travels to Rouen, Le Havre and Paris around May 5, 1789, getting papers as " Mr. Meeroff from Livonia " to arrive in Dover, ( England ) and then London on June 19, 1789, taking lodgings at the house of his British friend, " A Barlow ", at 47 Jermyn Street ).