  zug (, ; ; ; ; neo-latin tugium (named in the 16th century)), is a german-speaking city in switzerland. the name âzugâ originates from fishing vocabulary; in the middle ages it referred to the right to âpull upâ fishing nets and hence to the right to fish. the city of zug is located in the canton of zug and is the canton capital. as of  it had a total population of  inhabitants. ==history== thumb|left|view of zug before 1547   ===prehistory=== the oldest human traces date back to the time of around 14,000 bc. there have been paleolithic finds on the north bank of lake zug, which come from nomadic hunters and gatherers. archaeologists have also been able to prove the existence of over forty lake-shore settlements (pile dwellings), on the shores of lake zug, from the epoch of the first settled farmers in the neolithic period (5,500-2,200 bc). the peak in these lake-shore village settlements was in the period between 3800 and 2450 bc. for the same epoch, the first pre-alpine land use has been proven in menzingen and in the Ãgeri valley. the well-known, historically-researched and interesting lake-shore village, âsumpfâ (the swamp), dated from the late bronze age (up until 850 bc). these rich finds result in a quite differentiated picture of life in former 
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