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Canton of Zug

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The canton of Zug (also canton of Zoug; De-Zug.ogg) is one of the 26 cantons of Switzerland. [1]

75 relations: A4 motorway (Switzerland), Act of Mediation, Albert Heim, Alps, Ägerisee, Baar, Switzerland, Basel, Battle of Morgarten, Beekeeping, Bishopric of Constance, Canton of Aargau, Canton of Lucerne, Canton of Schwyz, Canton of Uri, Canton of Waldstätten, Canton of Zürich, Cantons of Switzerland, Capital city, Catholic Church, Cham, Switzerland, Christian democracy, Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland, Cider, Classical liberalism, Condensed milk, Council of States (Switzerland), Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, FDP.The Liberals, Feminism, German language, Gotthard railway, Green Liberal Party of Switzerland, Green liberalism, Green Party of Switzerland, Green politics, Hamlet (place), Höhronen, Hünenberg, Helvetic Republic, Historiography of Switzerland, House of Habsburg, Kirsch, Lake Zug, Landsgemeinde, Lorze, Menzingen, National Council (Switzerland), Nestlé, Neuheim, Oberägeri, ..., Primary sector of the economy, Protestantism, Reuss (river), Risch-Rotkreuz, Rooterberg, Sattel, Switzerland, Secondary sector of the economy, Sihl, Social democracy, Social Democratic Party of Switzerland, Sonderbund War, Steinhausen, Switzerland, Swiss German, Swiss People's Party, Switzerland, Tertiary sector of the economy, Unterägeri, Unterwalden, Vevey, Walchwil, Wildspitz, Zürich–Lucerne railway line, Zug, Zug railway station, Zugerberg. Expand index (25 more) »

A4 motorway (Switzerland)

The A4 motorway in Switzerland begins from Schaffhausen, in northern Switzerland, and travels southward into central Switzerland.

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Act of Mediation

The Act of Mediation was issued by Napoleon Bonaparte on 19 February 1803 establishing the Swiss Confederation.

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Albert Heim

Albert Heim (12 April 184931 August 1937) was a Swiss geologist, noted for his three-volume Geologie der Schweiz.

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Alps

The Alps (Alpes; Alpen; Alpi; Alps; Alpe) are the highest and most extensive mountain range system that lies entirely in Europe,The Caucasus Mountains are higher, and the Urals longer, but both lie partly in Asia.

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Ägerisee

Ägerisee (or Lake Aegeri) is a glacial lake in the Canton of Zug, Switzerland.

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Baar, Switzerland

Baar is a municipality in the canton of Zug in Switzerland.

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Basel

Basel (also Basle; Basel; Bâle; Basilea) is a city in northwestern Switzerland on the river Rhine.

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Battle of Morgarten

The Battle of Morgarten occurred on 15 November 1315, when a 1,500-strong force from the Swiss Confederacy ambushed a group of Habsburg soldiers on the shores of Lake Ägeri near the Morgarten Pass in Switzerland.

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Beekeeping

Beekeeping (or apiculture) is the maintenance of bee colonies, commonly in man-made hives, by humans.

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Bishopric of Constance

The Bishopric of Constance, or Prince-Bishopric of Constance, (Hochstift Konstanz, Fürstbistum Konstanz) was a Prince-Bishopric and Imperial Estate of the Holy Roman Empire from the mid–12th century until its secularisation in 1802–1803.

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Canton of Aargau

The canton of Aargau (German: Kanton; sometimes anglicized Argovia; see also other names) is one of the more northerly cantons of Switzerland.

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Canton of Lucerne

The canton of Lucerne (Kanton Luzern) is a canton of Switzerland.

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Canton of Schwyz

The canton of Schwyz (/ʃviːt͡s/) is a canton in central Switzerland between the Alps in the south, Lake Lucerne to the west and Lake Zürich in the north, centered on and named after the town of Schwyz.

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Canton of Uri

The canton of Uri (German: Kanton) is one of the 26 cantons of Switzerland and a founding member of the Swiss Confederation.

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Canton of Waldstätten

Waldstätten was a canton of the Helvetic Republic from 1798 to 1803, combining the territories of the founding cantons of the Old Swiss Confederacy, Uri (without the Leventina but with the Urseren), Schwyz (without March and Höfe) and both cantons of Unterwalden, which were collectively known as Waldstätten (German for forested settlements) since the 14th century, along with Zug, the Republic of Gersau, and Engelberg Abbey.

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Canton of Zürich

The canton of Zürich (Kanton) has a population (as of) of.

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Cantons of Switzerland

The 26 cantons of Switzerland (Kanton, canton, cantone, chantun) are the member states of the Swiss Confederation.

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Capital city

A capital city (or simply capital) is the municipality exercising primary status in a country, state, province, or other administrative region, usually as its seat of government.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with more than 1.299 billion members worldwide.

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Cham, Switzerland

Cham is a municipality in the canton of Zug in Switzerland.

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Christian democracy

Christian democracy is a political ideology that emerged in nineteenth-century Europe under the influence of Catholic social teaching, as well as Neo-Calvinism.

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Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland

The Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland (Christlichdemokratische Volkspartei der Schweiz, CVP; Parti Démocrate-Chrétien, PDC; Partito Popolare Democratico, PPD; Partida cristiandemocratica Svizra, PCD) is a Christian democratic political party in Switzerland.

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Cider

Cider is an alcoholic beverage made from the fermented juice of apples.

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Classical liberalism

Classical liberalism is a political ideology and a branch of liberalism which advocates civil liberties under the rule of law with an emphasis on economic freedom.

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Condensed milk

Condensed milk is cow's milk from which water has been removed.

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Council of States (Switzerland)

The Council of States (Ständerat, Conseil des États, Consiglio degli Stati, Cussegl dals Stadis) is the smaller chamber of the Federal Assembly of Switzerland, and is considered the Assembly's upper house, with the National Council being the lower house.

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Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition

The Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition (1910–11) is a 29-volume reference work, an edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica.

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FDP.The Liberals

FDP.The Liberals (FDP.Die Liberalen, PLR.Les Libéraux-Radicaux, PLR.I Liberali, PLD.Ils Liberals) is a liberal political party in Switzerland.

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Feminism

Feminism is a range of political movements, ideologies, and social movements that share a common goal: to define, establish, and achieve political, economic, personal, and social equality of sexes.

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German language

German (Deutsch) is a West Germanic language that is mainly spoken in Central Europe.

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Gotthard railway

The Gotthard railway (Gotthardbahn; Ferrovia del Gottardo) is the Swiss trans-alpine railway line from northern Switzerland to the canton of Ticino.

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Green Liberal Party of Switzerland

The Green Liberal Party of Switzerland (Grünliberale Partei der Schweiz, glp; Parti vert'libéral, pvl), abbreviated to glp, is a centrist Green liberal political party in Switzerland.

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Green liberalism

Green liberalism, or liberal environmentalism, is liberalism that includes green politics in its ideology.

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Green Party of Switzerland

The Green Party of Switzerland (Grüne Partei der Schweiz; Les vertsParti écologiste suisse; I VerdiPartito ecologista svizzero; La VerdaPartida ecologica svizra; "The GreensSwiss ecological party") is the fifth-largest party in the National Council of Switzerland, and the largest party that is not represented on the Federal Council.

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Green politics

Green politics (also known as ecopolitics) is a political ideology that aims to create an ecologically sustainable society rooted in environmentalism, nonviolence, social justice and grassroots democracy.

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Hamlet (place)

A hamlet is a small human settlement.

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Höhronen

The Höhronen (1,229 m) is a mountain of the Swiss Prealps, located on the border between the Swiss cantons of Zurich and Zug.

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Hünenberg

Hünenberg is a municipality in the canton of Zug in Switzerland.

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Helvetic Republic

In Swiss history, the Helvetic Republic (1798–1803) represented an early attempt to impose a central authority over Switzerland, which until then had consisted of self-governing cantons united by a loose military alliance (and ruling over subject territories such as Vaud).

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Historiography of Switzerland

The historiography of Switzerland is the study of the history of Switzerland.

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House of Habsburg

The House of Habsburg (traditionally spelled Hapsburg in English), also called House of Austria was one of the most influential and distinguished royal houses of Europe.

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Kirsch

A kirschwasser (German for "cherry water") or kirsch is a clear, colorless fruit brandy traditionally made from double distillation of morello cherries, a dark-colored cultivar of the sour cherry.

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Lake Zug

Lake Zug (Zugersee) is a lake in Central Switzerland, situated between Lake Lucerne and Lake Zurich.

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Landsgemeinde

The Landsgemeinde or "cantonal assembly" is a public, non-secret ballot voting system operating by majority rule, which constitutes one of the oldest forms of direct democracy.

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Lorze

Lorze is the main river of the Canton of Zug, Switzerland.

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Menzingen

Menzingen is a municipality in the canton of Zug in Switzerland.

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National Council (Switzerland)

The National Council (Nationalrat, Conseil national, Consiglio nazionale, Cussegl naziunal) is the lower house of the Federal Assembly of Switzerland, the upper house being the Council of States.

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Nestlé

Nestlé S.A. is a Swiss transnational food and drink company headquartered in Vevey, Vaud, Switzerland.

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Neuheim

Neuheim is a municipality in the canton of Zug in Switzerland.

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Oberägeri

Oberägeri, until 1798 simply known as Ägeri, is a municipality in the canton of Zug in Switzerland.

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Primary sector of the economy

An industry involved in the extraction and collection of natural resources, such as copper and timber, as well as by activities such as farming and fishing.

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Protestantism

Protestantism is the second largest form of Christianity with collectively more than 900 million adherents worldwide or nearly 40% of all Christians.

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Reuss (river)

The Reuss (Swiss German: Rüüss) is a river in Switzerland.

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Risch-Rotkreuz

Risch is a municipality in the canton of Zug in Switzerland.

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Rooterberg

The Rooterberg (840 m) is a mountain north of the Alps, located between Root and Udligenswil in the canton of Lucerne.

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Sattel, Switzerland

Sattel is a municipality in Schwyz District in the canton of Schwyz in Switzerland.

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Secondary sector of the economy

The secondary sector of the economy includes industries that produce a finished, usable product or are involved in construction.

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Sihl

The Sihl is a Swiss river that rises near the Druesberg mountain in the canton of Schwyz, and eventually flows into the Limmat in the centre of the city of Zürich.

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Social democracy

Social democracy is a political, social and economic ideology that supports economic and social interventions to promote social justice within the framework of a liberal democratic polity and capitalist economy.

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Social Democratic Party of Switzerland

The Social Democratic Party of Switzerland (also rendered as Swiss Socialist Party; Sozialdemokratische Partei der Schweiz, SP; Parti socialiste suisse, PS; Partito Socialista Svizzero; Partida Socialdemocrata de la Svizra) is a political party in Switzerland.

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Sonderbund War

The Sonderbund War (Sonderbundskrieg) of November 1847 was a civil war in Switzerland, then still a relatively loose confederacy of cantons (states).

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Steinhausen, Switzerland

Steinhausen is a city in the canton of Zug in Switzerland.

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Swiss German

Swiss German (Standard German: Schweizerdeutsch, Schwyzerdütsch, Schwiizertüütsch, Schwizertitsch Mundart,Because of the many different dialects, and because there is no defined orthography for any of them, many different spellings can be found. and others) is any of the Alemannic dialects spoken in the German-speaking part of Switzerland and in some Alpine communities in Northern Italy bordering Switzerland.

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Swiss People's Party

The Swiss People's Party (Schweizerische Volkspartei, SVP; Partida populara Svizra, PPS), also known as the Democratic Union of the Centre (Union démocratique du centre, UDC; Unione Democratica di Centro, UDC), is a national-conservative and right-wing populist political party in Switzerland.

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Switzerland

Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a sovereign state in Europe.

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Tertiary sector of the economy

The tertiary sector or service sector is the third of the three economic sectors of the three-sector theory.

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Unterägeri

Unterägeri is a municipality in the canton of Zug in Switzerland.

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Unterwalden

Unterwalden (Latinized as Sylvania, later also Subsylvania as opposed to Supersylvania) is the old name of a forest-canton of the Old Swiss Confederacy in central Switzerland, south of Lake Lucerne, consisting of two valleys or Talschaften, now organized as two half-cantons, an upper part, Obwalden, and a lower part, Nidwalden.

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Vevey

Vevey is a town in Switzerland in the canton of Vaud, on the north shore of Lake Geneva, near Lausanne.

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Walchwil

Walchwil is a village and a municipality in the canton of Zug in Switzerland.

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Wildspitz

The Wildspitz is the highest summit of the Rossberg, a mountain of the Schwyzer Alps, located on the border between the Swiss cantons of Zug and Schwyz.

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Zürich–Lucerne railway line

The Zürich–Lucerne line is a major railway line in Switzerland, connecting the cities of Zürich and Lucerne via Thalwil and Zug.

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Zug

Zug (Zug,; Zoug; Zugo; Zug; Neo-Latin Tugiumnamed in the 16th century), is an affluent municipality and town in Switzerland.

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Zug railway station

Zug railway station (Bahnhof Zug) serves the municipality of Zug, the capital city of the canton of Zug, Switzerland.

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Zugerberg

The Zugerberg is a mountain overlooking Zug and Lake Zug in the Zug.

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Redirects here:

Canton de Zoug, Canton of Zoug, Canton of zug, Kanton Zug, Municipalities of Zug, Municipalities of the canton of Zug, Zug (canton).

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canton_of_Zug

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