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Search.ch logo. Search.ch is a search engine and web portal based in Zürich, Switzerland. [1] It was founded in 1995 [2] by Rudolf Räber and Bernhard Seefeld as a regional search engine. [citation needed] The search engine allows the user to restrict their search to a specific region of Switzerland, such as a canton or a city.
The data code for Switzerland, CH, is derived from Latin Confoederatio Helvetica (Helvetic Confederation). The toponym Schwyz itself was first attested in 972, as Old High German Suittes, perhaps related to swedan 'to burn' (cf. Old Norse svíða 'to singe, burn'), referring to the area of forest that was burned and cleared to build. [29]
www.vtg.admin.ch www.armee.ch: Leadership; Commander-in-chief: Vacant in peacetime: Minister of Defence: Viola Amherd: Chief of the Armed Forces: Lt Gen Thomas Süssli: Personnel; Military age: 19 years of age for male compulsory military service; 18 years of age for voluntary male and female military service; Conscription: 19–34 years of age ...
The .ch domain is very popular in domain hacks, used to spell words and names that end in "ch". For example, Techcrunch's tcrn.ch, as well as the University of Michigan's myumi.ch and umresear.ch. [5] This phenomenon is not limited to English; to take another example, the domain scha.ch (Schach, German for "chess") has been registered.
They are also used in the ISO 3166-2 codes of Switzerland with the prefix "CH-" (Confœderatio Helvetica — Helvetian Confederation — Helvetia having been the ancient Roman name of the region). CH-SZ , for example, is used for the canton of Schwyz .
Biglen has a population (as of December 2020) of 1,847. [8] As of 2010, 6.7% of the population are resident foreign nationals. [9] Over the last 10 years (2000-2010) the population has changed at a rate of -5.5%.
Christlichdemokratische Volkspartei der Schweiz (CVP) Parti démocrate-chrétien suisse (PDC) Partito Popolare Democratico (PPD) Partida Cristian-democratica da la Svizra (PCD) BDP/PBD Conservative Democratic Party: Bürgerlich-Demokratische Partei Schweiz (BDP) Parti bourgeois démocratique Suisse (PBD) Partito borghese democratico Svizzera (PBD)
Aerial view (1950) Switzerland's history and Beringen's as well is linked back to the Ice Age and Stone Age. But, more specifically beginning with The Helvetians, a Celtic tribe, give their name to the Swiss territory: hence HELVETIA on Swiss flags, coins and stamps, ch = Confoederatio Helvetica on cars and internet domains.