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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 ...
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.
Waldstätte (German: [ˈvaltʃtɛtə], "forested sites;" Latin: civitates silvestres) is a term which has been used since the early thirteenth century to refer to the Stätte (singular: Statt, "sites"), or later Ort (plural: Orte, "place") or Stand (plural: Stände, "estate") of the early confederate allies of Uri, Schwyz and Unterwalden in today's Central Switzerland.
Population of towns (2022) Below is a list of towns and cities in Switzerland.Until 2014 municipalities with more than 10,000 inhabitants were considered to be towns (German: Stadt/Städte, French: ville(s), Italian: città).
The founding cantons specifically were also known as Waldstätte 'forest settlements' (singular: Waldstatt). The formulaic Stette und Waldstette for the members of the early confederacy is recorded in the mid-14th century, used interchangeably with Stett und Lender ('cities and lands', 'city cantons and rural cantons') until the late 15th ...
Municipalities of Switzerland Municipality Canton; Aadorf: Thurgau Aarau: Aargau Aarberg: Bern Aarburg: Aargau Aarwangen: Bern Abtwil: Aargau Aclens: Vaud Acquarossa
A Companion to the Swiss Reformation (Brill, 2016). ISBN 978-90-04-30102-3; Church, Clive H., and Randolph C. Head. A Concise History of Switzerland (Cambridge University Press, 2013). pp. 132–161 online; Codevilla, Angelo M. Between the Alps and a Hard Place: Switzerland in World War II and the Rewriting of History (2000) excerpt and text search