Zürich

Zurich or Zürich (; Alemannic German: Züri, ; , ) is the lairgest ceety in Swisserland an the caipital o the Canton o Zürich. It is locatit in central Swisserland at the northwastren tip o Lake Zurich. While the municipality itsel haes approximately 390,000 inhabitants, the Zurich metropolitan aurie is an urbanisit aurie o internaitional importance constitutit bi a population o nearly 2 million inhabitants.The Zurich Metropolitan Area: a motor for Europe , Stadt-zuerich.ch . Retrieved on 2010-03-10 Zurich is a mixed hub for railways, roads, an air traffic. Baith Zurich Airport an railway station are the lairgest an busiest in the kintra.

Permanently settled for aroond 7,000 years, the history o Zurich goes back tae its foondin bi the Romans, who, in 15 BC, cried it Turicum. Durin the Middle Ages Zurich gained the independent an privileged status o imperial immediacy an, in 1519, wis the place o oreegin an centre o the Protestant Reformation in German-speakin Swisserland, led bi Ulrich Zwingli.  zuerich.com.Huldrych-Zwingli

Zurich is a leadin global ceety an amang the warld's lairgest feenancial centres.World's 10 Most Powerful Cities prlog.org. Retrieved on 2010-03-10 The ceety is hame tae a lairge number o financial institutions an bankin giants. An aw, maist o the research an development centres are concentratit in Zurich an the law rate o tax attracts owerseas companies tae set up their heidquarters there. Accordin tae several surveys frae 2006 tae 2008, Zurich wis namit the ceety wi the best quality o life in the warld as well as the walthiest ceety in Europe.Mercer – Quality of Living global city rankings 2009 – Mercer survey, 28 April 2009

An impressive number o museums an airt galleries can be foond in the ceety, includin the Swiss Naitional Museum an the Kunsthaus.Museums and galleries  zurich-relocation.ch. Retrieved on 2010-03-10 Zurich hosts ane o the maist important theatres in the German-speakin warld an aw.Zurich Culture worldtravelguide.net. Retrieved on 2010-03-10

Name

The Swiss staundart German pronunciation o the name is . In Zurich German athoot the feenal consonant, Züri , although the adjective remains Zürcher .
The ceety is cried Zurich  in French, Zurigo  in Italian, an Turitg    in Romansh.

In Inglis an Scots, the name is uisually written Zurich, athoot the umlaut. It is pronooncit  () or  (); mair recently sometimes wi   as in German an aw.

The earliest kent form o the ceety's name is Turicum, attestit on a tombstone o the late 2nt century AD in the form STA(tio) TURICEN(sis) ("Turicum tax post"). Neither the name's linguistic oreegin (maist likely Rhaetic or Celtic) nor its meaning can be determined wi certainty. A possibility is derivation frae *Turīcon, frae the Gaulish personal name Tūros.Andres Kristol, Zürich ZH (Zürich) in: Dictionnaire toponymique des communes suisses – Lexikon der schweizerischen Gemeindenamen – Dizionario toponomastico dei comuni svizzeri (DTS|LSG), Centre de dialectologie, University of Neuchâtel, Verlag Huber, Frauenfeld/Stuttgart/Wien 2005, ISBN 3-7193-1308-5 und Éditions Payot, Lausanne 2005, ISBN 2-601-03336-3, p. 992f. The stress on the lang vowel o the Gaulish name, , wis lost in German  but is preservit in Italian Zurigo .

A first development towards its later, Germanic form is attestit as early as the 6t century wi the form Ziurichi. Frae the 10t century onward, the name haes mair or less clearly been established as Zürich (Zurih (857), Zurich (924)).Zürcher Ortsnamen – Entstehung und Bedeutung, H. Kläuli, V. Schobinger, Zürcher Kantonalbank (1989), p. 109.

Zurich is sometimes referred tae as "Downtown Swisserland" for publicity raisons.

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 Stadt Zürich   Offeeial steid
 Ceety o Zurich  Offeecial Steid, Inglis Version


Category:Cantonal caipitals o Swisserland
Category:Ceeties in Swisserland
Category:Populatit places on Loch Zürich
Category:Imperial free ceeties