Schwyz

American  

[shveets] / ʃvits /

noun

1. a canton in central Switzerland, bordering on the Lake of Lucerne. 350 sq. mi. (900 sq. km).

2. a city in and the capital of this canton, in the W part.

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Schwyz British  

/ ʃviːts /

noun

1. a canton of central Switzerland: played an important part in the formation of the Swiss confederation, to which it gave its name. Capital: Schwyz. Pop: 133 300 (2002 est). Area: 908 sq km (351 sq miles)

2. a town in E central Switzerland, capital of Schwyz canton: tourism. Pop: 13 802 (2000)

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Schwyz

At first, he lived in Lausanne with a fellow Syrian, after which he registered as a refugee and was sent to the German-speaking canton of Schwyz.

From Reuters ● Sep. 20, 2017

In a place like Schwyz, this puts a strain on the local population.

From New York Times ● Feb. 26, 2014

Six hundred and fifty years before, representatives of the three "forest cantons" of Uri, Schwyz and Unterwalden had gathered in the same glade to light a fire symbolizing their confederation against the house of Habsburg.

From Time Magazine Archive

Einsiedeln, in Canton Schwyz, Switzerland, is a noted place of pilgrimage on the Alpbach, thirty miles from Zurich, under the Herrenberg, with an abbey founded in 861, containing a black statue of the Virgin.

From The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning by Berdoe, Edward

Such mountains as the remarkable-looking Mythen, near Schwyz, for instance, are weathered from masses of Triassic and Jurassic rock, and repose on the much more recent Flysch.

From The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays by Joly, John