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Swiss Challenge League
Swiss Challenge League (dieci Challenge League), Switzerland's second football tier, run by the Swiss Football League with 10 clubs since 2012/13; champion promoted to the Super League, renamed from Nationalliga B in 2003.
Swiss cheese model
The Swiss cheese model, also known as the Reason model, is an accident causation model introduced by psychologist James Reason in 1990, in which aligned defense weaknesses cause accidents.
Swiss Code of Obligations
The Swiss Code of Obligations (Code des obligations) is Switzerland's federal statute governing contracts, tort, unjust enrichment, company law, and commercial registration, in force since 1 January 1912.
Swiss Cottage
Swiss Cottage is a district in the London Borough of Camden, north-west London, named after a chalet-style pub that gave its name to a station opened in 1868.
Swiss cuisine
Swiss cuisine is the regional cooking of Switzerland, shaped by German, French and northern Italian influences. Known for fondue, raclette, rösti, Birchermüesli, over 700 cheeses and the world's highest chocolate consumption, it has no official national dish.
Swiss Family Robinson (1960 film)
Swiss Family Robinson (1960 film) is a Disney adventure film about a Swiss family shipwrecked on a tropical island. It was shot on the Caribbean island of Tobago.
Swiss Federal Railways
Swiss Federal Railways, or SBB (German Schweizerische Bundesbahnen, French Chemins de fer fédéraux suisses), is the state-owned Swiss railway company that has run most of the country's standard-gauge network since 1902.
Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority
The Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority, known as FINMA, is Switzerland's integrated financial regulator, seated in Bern, that licenses and supervises banks, insurers, and asset managers.
Swiss franc
The Swiss franc, or Schweizer Franken, is the currency of Switzerland, issued by the Swiss National Bank since 1848 and one of the world's principal safe-haven currencies.
Swiss German
Swiss German (Schwiizerdütsch, Schweizerdeutsch) is the umbrella term for Alemannic dialects spoken by roughly 5 million people in German-speaking Switzerland, used for all everyday speech in diglossia with written Standard German, with no dialect-standard continuum and no formal writing system.
Swiss Grand Prix
Swiss Grand Prix (Großer Preis der Schweiz), Formula 1 race at Bremgarten near Bern; first held 1934, a World Championship round 1950–1954, last won by Fangio; ended by the 1955 Le Mans ban, revived at Dijon in 1982.
Swiss Guard
Pontifical Swiss Guard, founded 1506 by Julius II, the Vatican's army of 135 Swiss Catholic men protecting the Pope; distinct from the Vatican Gendarmerie police, famed for the 1527 Sack of Rome.
Swiss Guards
Pontifical Swiss Guard (Guardia Svizzera Pontificia), papal Swiss mercenary corps founded 22 January 1506 by Pope Julius II, protects the pope and Vatican City; 135 men, Sack of Rome 1527, annual 6 May oath.
Swiss International Air Lines
Swiss International Air Lines (SWISS) is Switzerland's largest airline, formed in 2002 from Crossair after Swissair's collapse and wholly owned by the Lufthansa Group since 2007.
Swiss International Air Lines Flight 1885
Swiss International Air Lines Flight 1885 was a Bucharest–Zurich flight that made an emergency landing in Graz, Austria, in 2024 after engine failure and cabin smoke.
Swiss Italian
Swiss Italian (italiano svizzero): the Italian of Switzerland, national language since 1848, spoken in Ticino and four Grisons valleys by about 8% of the population; a weakly pluricentric variety with helvetisms and federal Italian.
Swiss Life Holding
Swiss Life Holding is a Zurich-based Swiss insurance group combining life insurance with third-party asset management; it is Switzerland's largest life insurer, with a 41% market share in 2024.
Swiss Light Source
The Swiss Light Source (SLS) is a synchrotron X-ray light source at the Paul Scherrer Institut in Villigen, Switzerland, opened in 2001 and rebuilt as the brighter SLS 2.0.
Swiss literature
Swiss literature is the literature written in Switzerland in its four national languages, usually treated as four literatures tied to their language areas rather than one national body.
Swiss Literature Prize
The Swiss Literature Prizes (Schweizer Literaturpreise) are annual awards by the Swiss Federal Office of Culture for works in the four national languages or Swiss dialects.
Swiss locomotive and railcar classification
The Swiss locomotive and railcar classification is the letter-and-number system used since 1902 to name Switzerland's railway locomotives, with designations such as Re 4/4 and Re 460.
Swiss Made
Swiss Made is a legally protected indication of origin for watches, defined by a Swiss ordinance revised in 2017 and requiring at least 60% of manufacturing costs in Switzerland.
Swiss Market Index
The Swiss Market Index (SMI) is Switzerland's blue-chip stock index, made up of the 20 largest and most liquid Swiss equities and covering about 75% of the market, launched in 1988.
Swiss medical weekly
Swiss Medical Weekly (SMW, Swiss Med Wkly), Basel peer-reviewed general medical journal founded 1871 as Correspondenz-Blatt für Schweizer Aerzte, English-language Diamond open access since 2001, no author fees, official journal of three Swiss medical societies.
Swiss mercenaries
Swiss mercenaries, known in German as Reisläufer, were soldiers from the Swiss Confederation who sold their military service to foreign rulers from the 13th into the 20th century.
Swiss mountain dog
The Swiss mountain dog, or Sennenhund, is a large tricolour draft and guard dog from Switzerland, oldest and largest of the four Sennenhund breeds alongside the Bernese Mountain Dog.
Swiss Music Awards
Swiss Music Awards (SMA), Switzerland's largest annual music prize show at Zurich's Hallenstadion, run by CH Media under IFPI license with GfK evaluation; distinct from the state Swiss Music Prizes (Grand Award CHF 100,000, 2026 winner Nadja Räss).
Swiss National Bank
The Swiss National Bank (Schweizerische Nationalbank) is Switzerland's central bank, defining price stability as inflation below 2 percent and setting the SNB policy rate; its balance sheet exceeded CHF 1,000 billion at end-2021.
Swiss National Supercomputing Centre
The Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS, Centro Svizzero di Calcolo Scientifico) is Switzerland's national high-performance computing center, a unit of ETH Zurich in Lugano, founded in 1991.
Swiss neutrality
Swiss neutrality: Switzerland's permanent, armed neutrality, recognized in the 1815 Treaty of Paris, anchored in the constitution since 1848, governed by the 1907 Hague Conventions, and reshaped by the 2022 sanctions debate over Russia's invasion of Ukraine.