Aarau is situated on the Swiss plateau, in the valley of the Aar, on the river's right bank, and at the southern foot of the Jura mountains, and is west of Zurich.

The urban center lies in the middle of the " Golden Triangle " between Zurich, Bern, and Basel, and Aarau is having increasing difficulty in maintaining the independence of its economic base from the neighboring large cities.

A close collaboration between the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Chalmers and ICVR at ETH Zurich is being established.

In the years prior to World War I similar art had already risen in Bucharest and other Eastern European cities ; it is likely that DADA's catalyst was the arrival in Zurich of artists like Tzara and Janco.

The InterCityExpress or ICE is a type of high-speed train operated by Deutsche Bahn in Germany and large cities in neighbouring countries, such as Zurich, Vienna, Copenhagen, Paris, Amsterdam and Brussels.

Geneva (;, ;, ) is the second most populous city in Switzerland ( after Zurich ) and is the most populous city of Romandy, the French-speaking part of Switzerland.

and a 2009 survey by Mercer found Geneva to have the third-highest quality of life of any city in the world ( behind Vienna and Zurich ; it is narrowly outranked by Zurich ).

In cryptography, the International Data Encryption Algorithm ( IDEA ) is a block cipher designed by James Massey of ETH Zurich and Xuejia Lai and was first described in 1991.

Oberon is a programming language created in 1986 by Professor Niklaus Wirth ( creator of the Pascal, Modula, and Modula-2 programming languages ) and his associates at ETH Zurich in Switzerland.

The only woman to exceed 5 metres is Russian women's world-record holder Yelena Isinbayeva, who reached that height in 2005 and who has in total broken the women's world-record ( indoor and outdoor ), 27 times, culminating in her current world record of 5. 06 metres obtained in 2009 at Letzigrund in Zurich.

Zurich Airport is Switzerland's largest international flight gateway, handling 20. 7 million passengers in 2007.

Almost 20 % of all conscripts were found unfit for military or civilian service in 2008 ; the rate is generally higher in urban cantons such as Zurich and Geneva than in the rural ones.

* 1946 – The Council of Europe is founded following a speech by Winston Churchill at the University of Zurich.

Zurich ( German: Zürich, ; Swiss German: Züri ) is the largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zurich.

Zurich is a hub for railways, roads, and air traffic.

Zurich is a leading global city and among the world's largest financial centres.

The city is called Zurich in French, Zurigo in Italian, and Turitg in Romansh.

In English, the name is usually written Zurich, without the umlaut.

The blue and white coat of arms of Zurich is attested from 1389, and was derived from banners with blue and white stripes in use since 1315.

As of 2010, the Zurich City Council is made up of four representatives of the SDP ( Social Democratic Party, one of whom is the mayor ), two members of the FDP ( Free Democratic Party ), two members of the Green Party and one member of the CVP ( Christian Democratic Party ).

Konrad Pellikan (; Latin: Conradus Pellicanus ; sometimes anglicized as Conrad Pellican ; January 8, 1478, Rouffach in Alsace – May 6, 1556, Zurich ) was a German Protestant theologian, humanist, and Christian Hebraist who worked chiefly in Switzerland.

In 1912 these tensions came to a peak because Jung felt severely slighted after Freud visited his colleague Ludwig Binswanger in Kreuzlingen without paying him a visit in nearby Zurich, an incident Jung referred to as " the Kreuzlingen gesture.

Only a few courts exist outside Britain, most notably at Geelong Grammar School in Australia ( the school is often referred to as the ' Eton of Australia '); there are also courts in Geneva, Zurich, Lyceum Alpinum Zuoz, Switzerland, St. Paul's School, Darjeeling, India and Malay College Kuala Kangsar, Malaysia, and two brand new courts have recently been completed in the South of France, in the village of Grillon, Provence.

When the authorities used military force to discontinue the extension of an originally peaceful protest strike in Zurich, on November 10, the committee gave Calonder the ultimatum to either call back the militia or accept the consequences of a nation-wide strike, Calonder declined in the name of the Federal Council, and on November 11, 1918, the committee called for an indefinite strike, now referred to as the Swiss General Strike.

* Downtown Zurich

* Au, Zurich, Switzerland

The high-speed services linking Zurich, Bern and Basel in Switzerland have brought the Central Business Districts ( CBDs ) of these three cities within 1 hour of each other.

It began in Zurich, Switzerland in 1916, spreading to Berlin shortly thereafter.

Other sources state that Dada did not originate fully in a Zurich literary salon but grew out of an already vibrant artistic tradition in Eastern Europe, particularly Romania, that transposed to Switzerland when a group of Jewish modernist artists ( Tzara, Marcel & Iuliu Iancu, Arthur Segal, and others ) settled in Zurich.

* Final Report on the Work of the Claims Resolution Tribunal for Dormant Accounts in Switzerland ( CRT-I ) Zurich, 5 October 2001

In 1799 the Russian army expelled the French from Italy in battles such as Cassano, while the Austrian army defeated the French in Switzerland at Stockach and Zurich.

The Z4 was finished and delivered to the ETH Zurich, Switzerland in September 1950.

In 1943, he went into exile in Switzerland, exhibiting in Basel, Bern, and Zurich.

Nordea International private banking has its headquarters in Luxembourg with branches in Belgium ( Brussels ), France ( Cannes ), Luxembourg, Spain ( Fuengirola-Málaga ) and Switzerland ( Zurich ).

* 2009 – Armenia and Turkey sign protocols in Zurich, Switzerland to open their borders.

Later, he was briefed in nuclear physics, provided a Beretta automatic pistol and a cyanide pill ( to kill himself if necessary ), and sent to Zurich, Switzerland posing as a Swiss physics student.

* Au peninsula, Au, Zurich, Switzerland

In Switzerland, students since 2008 have the option of studying in the University of Zurich medical school earning a Bachelor of Medicine ( with a focus on chiropractic ) and a Masters in Chiropractic Medicine.

The Canton of Zürich in Switzerland issued the Zurich 4 and 6 rappen on 1 March 1843.

There was at the time no mission compliant, long range Ambulance ICU Jet anywhere available including, except for one of four Swiss Air Ambulance Challenger Jets, based half way around the globe at the REGA HQ, Zurich International Airport in Switzerland.

Utility tunnel in the center of Zurich, Switzerland

Wim Wenders, Galerie Judin Belot, Zurich, Switzerland

The Eurex, a European electronic futures and options exchange based in Zurich, Switzerland with a subsidiary in Frankfurt, Germany, offers options ( ODAX ) and Futures ( FDAX ) on the DAX from 08: 00 to 22: 00 CET.

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.