Schaffhausen (derived from Old High German scaffa = ship; frz Schaffhouse, ital Schaffhausen, altdt. Scaphusun, jokingly Greek Probatopolis) is a municipality and the capital of the canton of Schaffhausen in Switzerland. Schaffhausen, with a population of approximately 34000 inhabitants the largest municipality in the canton. This article is a translation based on Schaffhausen from Wikipedia. See GNU license and a list of authors.