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

In Zurich German without the final consonant, Züri, although the adjective remains Zürcher.

The famous illuminated manuscript – described as " the most beautifully illumined German manuscript in centuries ;" – was commissioned by the Manesse family of Zurich, copied and illustrated in the city at some time between 1304 and 1340.

The first written document on the area originates from the year 858, and refers to King Ludwig the German giving the farm ‘ Chama ’ ( Cham ) to the Zurich Fraumünster convent.

Lake Zurich ( Swiss German / Alemannic: Zürisee ; German: Zürichsee ) is a lake in Switzerland, extending southeast of the city of Zurich.

In Swiss and Southern German Reformed churches, where the Reformed churches are organized as regionally defined independent churches ( such as Evangelical Reformed Church of Zurich or Reformed Church of Berne ), the synod corresponds to the general assembly of Presbyterian churches.

* Histoire des Alpes – Storia delle Alpi – Geschichte der Alpen: annual journal of the International Society for Alpine History with French, Italian and German articles and English abstracts, Chronos Verlag, Zurich, from 1996, ISSN 1660-8070 ; online access on http :// www. arc. usi. ch / labisalp or http :// retro. seals. ch.

* NS Hispeed-operator, in conjunction with NS Reizigers and foreign partners, of high-speed international Fyra services on the HSL-Zuid, Thalys ( from Amsterdam to Paris ), ICE ( to the German Ruhr area ), Intercities ( to Berlin and Brussels ) and the Swiss CityNightLine ( to Munich and Zurich ).

Schwyz ( Standard German ) is a canton in central Switzerland between the Alps in the south, Lake Lucerne to the west and Lake Zurich in the north, centered around and named after the town of Schwyz.

* Doctoral Thesis of Daniel Speich, ETH Zurich ( German )

Viennese refer to the Zentralfriedhof ' half the size of Zurich and twice as much fun ',( German: „ Halb so groß wie Zürich-aber doppelt so lustig ist der Wiener Zentralfriedhof !“) as the cemetery is only half as large as the city of Zurich.

In 1880 he joined a group of German socialists in Zurich who were supported financially by Karl Höchberg, and who smuggled socialist material into the Reich at the time of the Anti-Socialist Laws ( 1878-).

Born in Mulhouse ( then part of the German Empire ), Maria Benz met Max Bill in the Odeon Café in Zurich who called her " Nusch ", the name she would stick to.

Pyke was not the first to suggest a floating mid-ocean stopping point for aircraft, nor even the first to suggest that such a floating island could be made of ice: German scientist Dr. Gerke of Waldenberg proposed the idea and carried out some preliminary experiments in Lake Zurich in 1930.

* Museum of Moulages, University of Zurich ( English / German )

Berlin Dada in particular, started by Richard Huelsenbeck after leaving Zurich in 1917, would publish a number of incendiary artists ' books, such as George Grosz's The Face Of The Dominant Class ( 1921 ), a series of politically motivated satirical lithographs about the German Bourgeoisie.

In November 1897, he opened a sanatorium in Zurich called " Vital Force ," named after a " key term from the German lifestyle reform movement which states that people should pattern their lives after the logic determined by nature ".

is a stadium in Zurich ( German: Zürich ), Switzerland, and the home of the football club FC Zürich.

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 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.

Zurich is sometimes referred to as " Downtown Switzerland " for publicity reasons.

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 ).

* Lake Zurich High School ( 9-12 )

A small section of east Lake Zurich is served by Kildeer Countryside Community Consolidated School District 96 and Consolidated High School District 125.

* Lake Zurich High School.

That year she fell seriously ill and decided to move to Switzerland, where on the 14th November she started at the " Girls High School " in Zurich.

These include: David Wertman's Kara Suite, Ornette Coleman's Body Meta, John Coltrane's Interstellar Space, Cecil Taylor's Cecil Taylor Unit, Roscoe Mitchell / Sunny Murray's Wildflowers 5, Derek Bailey's Solo Guitar Volume One, Marilyn Crispell's A Concert In Berlin, Borbetomagus ' Zurich, The Music Improvisation Company, Cecil Taylor Indent, Masayuki Takayanagi / Kaoru Abe's Mass Projection, Steve Lacy / Maarten Altena's High, Low and Order, Anthony Braxton / John Lindberg's Six Duets, Oliver Lake's Passin ' Through, Eugene Chadbourne / Polly Bradfield's Torture Time, Peter Brotzmann & Bill Laswell's Lowlife, Frank Lowe's Black Beings, Derek Bailey & Evan Parker's The London Concert, Ornette Coleman's Skies Of America, Keiji Haino's-I Said, This Is The Son Of Nihilism ; and 17 more titles.

Prior to the opening of Stevenson, the students in the Stevenson area attended Ela-Vernon High School in Lake Zurich.

Lake Zurich High School-Performing Arts Center

* Katia Saporiti ( Zurich ): " A Bet with High Stakes: Reflections on Berkeley's Master Argument " // 6th-9th April 2010, International Berkeley Conference, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland.