page_title: Zug
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Zug / History
context_page_description: Zug is the largest town and capital of the Swiss canton of Zug in Switzerland. Its name originates from the fishing vocabulary; in the Middle Ages it referred to the right to pull up fishing nets and hence to the right to fish.
  The municipality had a total population of 30,542 in 31 December 2018. The official language of Zug is the Swiss variety of Standard German, but the main spoken language is the local variant of the Alemannic Swiss German dialect.
caption: View of Zug before 1547
exif: {}