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Lake Zurich (German: Zürichsee; Alemannic German: Zürisee) [1] is a lake in Switzerland, extending southeast of the city of Zurich.Depending on the context, Lake Zurich or Zürichsee can be used to describe the lake as a whole, or just that part of the lake downstream of the Hurden peninsula and Seedamm causeway (between Pfäffikon and Rapperswil).
There were 652 Swiss women (48.5%) and 4 (0.3%) non-Swiss women. [12] Of the population in the municipality, 256 or about 22.2% were born in Sutz-Lattrigen and lived there in 2000. There were 552 or 48.0% who were born in the same canton, while 208 or 18.1% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 96 or 8.3% were born outside of Switzerland ...
In 2011, 111 sites located variously in Switzerland (56), Italy (19), Germany (18), France (11), Austria (5) and Slovenia (2) were added to the UNESCO World Heritage Site list. [1] In Slovenia, these were the first World Heritage Sites to be listed for their cultural value.
The pile-dwelling sites were built from around 5000 BC to 500 BC. Contrary to popular belief, the settlements were not erected over water, but on nearby marshy land, among them on the Seedamm respectively Frauenwinkel area, or, on the then swamp land between the Limmat and Lake Zurich around Sechseläutenplatz on small islands and peninsulas in Zurich.
Celtic wooden statue from Eschenz, c. 10 BC Map of late Iron Age Switzerland on the eve of the Roman conquest, indicating tribal territories, large settlements and oppida The Swiss plateau lay in the western part of the Early Iron Age Hallstatt culture , [ 11 ] and it participated in the early La Tène culture (named for the type site at Lake ...
A 1581 bird's-eye etching of Zurich, published by Georg Braun and Frans Hogenberg. The Murerplan of 1576. Zurich has been continuously inhabited since Roman times. The vicus of Turicum was established in AD 90, at the site of an existing Gaulish settlement.
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Archaeological remains suggest two distinct waves of settlement in Alsace, with northern Alsace having been colonized by farmers from near the rivers Main and Neckar, and southern Alsace being culturally closer to the upper reaches of the Danube in Switzerland. LBK cultures likely coexisted with earlier hunter-gatherer cultures, which survived ...