Zurich - Galapagos Islands (Paperback)

Chapters: Galapagos Islands. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 86. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Zurich - The standard German pronunciation of the name is . In Zurich German without the final consonant, Zuri, although the adjective remains Zurcher . The city is called Zurich in French, Zurigo in Italian, and Turitg in Romansh. In English, the name is usually written Zurich, without the umlaut. It is pronounced () or; more recently sometimes also with as in German. The earliest known form of the city's name is Turicum, attested on a tombstone of the late 2nd century AD in the form STA(tio) TURICEN(sis) ("Turicum tax post"). Neither the name's linguistic origin (most likely Rhaetic or Celtic) nor its meaning can be determined with certainty. A possibility is derivation from *Turcon, from the Gaulish personal name Tros. The stress on the long vowel of the Gaulish name, , was lost in German but is preserved in Italian Zurigo . A first development towards its later, Germanic form is attested as early as the 6th century AD with the form Ziurichi. From the 10th century onward, the name has more or less clearly been established as Zurich (Zurih (857), Zurich (924)). In Roman times, Turicum was a tax-collecting point at the border of Gallia Belgica (from AD 90 Germania superior) and Raetia for goods trafficked on the Limmat river. A Carolingian castle, built on the site of the Roman castle by the grandson of Charlemagne, Louis the German, is mentioned in 835 (in castro Turicino iuxta fluvium Lindemaci). Louis also founded the Fraumunster abbey in 853 for his daughter Hildegard. He endowed the Benedictine convent with the lands of Zurich, Uri, and the Albis forest, and granted the convent immunity, placing it under his direct authority. In 1045, King Henry III granted the convent the rig...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=34453