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Central Switzerland (468 words) |
 | Lake steamers at Weggis on the Lake of the Four Forest Cantons (Switzerland Tourism). |
| Call it a sign of the times: Schwyz, the birthplace of Switzerland's name and flag, is now the site of a major regional shopping mall. |
| Mt. Rigi is one of Switzerland's classic excursions. |
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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Switzerland (8017 words) |
| Switzerland also contains a large number of lakes, the largest of which are on the edges of the Alps and the Jura, such as Geneva or Leman, Constance, Neuchâtel, Lucerne, Lugano, Maggiore, and Zürich. |
| On the organization of the Roman provinces before Diocletian the northwestern past of the territory of Switzerland belonged to the provinces of Germania Superior, the southwestern section (Geneva) to the Provincia Narbonensis, the eastern and the greater part of the southeastern region to the province of Rhaetia. |
| In the partition of the Frankish Empire by the Treaty of Verdun in 843 the central and eastern parts of Switzerland fell to the Kingdom of Alamannia, the western to the Kingdom of Lorraine, and later to France. |
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