These 11 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Zurich, Zurich, Zutphen.
TREATY OF, a convention signed in Zurich Nov. 10, 1859, by the plenipotentiaries of France and Austria, which embodied the conditions of the preliminaries of peace agreed to at Villafranca, on the part of Napoleon II. and the Emperor of Austria, Francis Joseph, and closed the Franco-Italian war by Austria's abandonment of her right to Lombardy.
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LAKE OF, or ZURICHER- SEE, a sheet of water chiefly in the canton of Zurich, but partly in Schwyz.. Its greatest length is about 27 miles; while its greatest breadth does not exceed 3 miles, and its greatest depth 600 feet. Its scenery is distinguished not so much for grandeur as for beauty. A considerable traffic is carried on on the lake by means of sailing vessels and a number of steamers. It is well supplied with fish. Its chief feeder is the Linth canal, communicating with the Wallenstattersee. It discharges itself at the town of Zürich by the Limmat.
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capital of the canton of Zurich; 41 miles N. N. E. of Lucerne and 43 N. W. of Glarus, at the point where the Limmat issues from the Lake of Zurich and unites with its tributary the Sihl. It is one of the most prosperous manufacturing and commercial towns of Switzerland; yet the narrow streets and lofty houses of its older quarters, on the high ground E. of the river, give it the quaint appearance of a mediæval city. Of the Romanesque cathedral, erected in the 11th and 13th centuries, Zwingli was pastor, as Lavater was of the Peterskirche. The Polytechnic (1864) houses the university, founded in Fuseli was a native. Pop. with suburbs, about 160,000.
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a N. canton of Switzerland; drained by the Rhine and its tributaries, and traversed from N. W. to S. E. by ridges of lofty hills, between which lie three valleys, forming almost its whole surface those of the Toss, the Glatt, and the Limmat. The last drains the beautiful Lake of Zurich, which, lying 1,341 feet above sea-level, is 25 miles long, and 2½ miles broad at the widest. Zurich has an area of 666 square miles and a pop. of about 425,000. Zurich has not a fertile soil, but it is carefully cultivated. Zurich was one of the earliest seats of the cotton manufacture in Europe, and the spinning and weaving of cotton are still prosecuted with great success. The silk industry is nearly as important; and machinery, bells, type, paper, etc., are also manufactured.
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a town in the Dutch province of Guelderland; on the Yssel, here joined by the Berk Berkel ; 18 miles N. N. E. of Arnhem. Of buildings the chief are the Great Church (1103; restored 1857) and the "Wijn Huis" tower. At Rysselt, 3 miles N., is the boys' reformatory of "Nederlandsch Mettray" (1851). Zütpen has manufactures of paper, oil, leather, etc. It has been several times besieged; and in a skirmish on the field of Warnsfield, a little to the E., SIR PHILIP SIDNEY (q. v.) received his death wound from a Spanish bullet, Oct. 2, 1586. Pop., commune, about 20,000.
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a town of European Russia, in the province of Kiev; on the Tikitch river; 96 miles S. S. E. of the town of Kiev; has numerous sulphur springs in its neighborhood.
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a town in Bosnia, Jugoslavia, on the Drina; 68 miles N. E. of Serajevo. The inhabitants are partly Serbian, partly Catholic and to some extent Mohammedan. The coal and lead mines are rich though undeveloped. Zvornik, which is a fortress of great strength, was occupied by the Russians, Sept. 27, 1878.
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a picturesque city of Saxony; irregularly built in its older portions, in a pleasant valley on the left bank of the Mulde; 82 miles S. W. of Dresden. Of its churches the most noteworthy is the Gothic Marienkirche, which dates from 1451, was restored in 1839-1842, and has a tower 285 feet high. The The old castle has been converted into a prison. The town carries on many manufactures; but the chief source of its wealth is the rich beds of coal in the surrounding district, which employ 8,000 miners. Pop. (1896) 50,391. For the Prophets of Zwickau, see ANABAPTISTS.
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THEODORE, THE EL- DER (tsvinger) (Latin ZWINGERUS, zwin-jē'rus), a famous Swiss physician and scholar; born in Basel, Switzerland, in 1533; became Professor of Greek at Basel in 1565. He wrote: "Theater of Human Life" (1565), a collection of anecdotes, etc. He died in Basel, in 1588.
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tswing'lee, Ulrich (1484-1531), a Swiss reformer. He was the son of a bailiff in the canton of St. Gall. He studied philosophy and theology at Basel, Berne, and Vienna, and in 1506 took up the work of a parish priest at Glarus. A few years later he served as chaplain in the papal army then operating against the French. In 1516 he was made preacher in the convent of Einsiedeln, then the resort of many pilgrims. In this office he began calling on the Bishop of Constance to reform the Church. He set his face against the preaching of indulgences and became shortly the acknowledged leader of the citizens of Zurich in opposition to the Church of Rome. In 1524, following the example of Luther, with whom he was in correspondence and substantial accord, he married. He may be regarded as the leader of Swiss Protestants of German nationality. Calvin was the leader of the French Protestants. In 1531, in a war between Zurich and the Catholic cantons of Lake Lucerne, Schwyz, Uri, Unterwalden, and Zug, Zwingli took the field, bearing the consecrated banner of his canton, and was slain in battle. Zwingli's Greek Bible with Hebrew annotations in his own hand is preserved in the town library of Zurich. His sword, battleax, coat of mail, and helmet are kept in the town arsenal.
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in palæontology, a genus of Labyrinthodontia. Skull irregular, with concave sides, an obtuse snout, and a concave occipital border; it is lofty in the occipital region, while falling gradually in front and rapidly on the sides. Orbits slightly posterior, large, irregular. Premaxillary teeth two or more on each side, larger than the maxillary teeth, which are 16 or 18 on each side; all are conical, strong, and nearly straight, with about 20 grooves at the base. Known species one Z. lucius, from the Zechstein (Middle Permian), of the province of Perm in Russia.
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