Unterwalden
Americannoun
noun
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Six hundred and fifty years before, representatives of the three "forest cantons" of Uri, Schwyz and Unterwalden had gathered in the same glade to light a fire symbolizing their confederation against the house of Habsburg.
From Time Magazine Archive
The mists swept onwards, veiling a portion of the scenery; then came forth the Bernese Alps, the Jungfrau, the M�nch, and the Finsteraarhorn; then Titlis, and the Unterwalden mountains.
From Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from Italy and Switzerland by Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix
As it contained nothing but good tidings, I immediately arranged a tour of three days to Unterwalden and the Br�nig.
From Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from Italy and Switzerland by Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix
Thus, the house of a certain M. Zoller, a lawyer and member of the Swiss Federal Council, a house at Stans, in Unterwalden, was made simply uninhabitable in 1860-1862.
From The Making of Religion by Lang, Andrew
The inhabitants of Uri, and partly also those of Schwytz and Unterwalden supplied the Italian markets with their cattle, and the mountain-valley of Urseren flourished particularly by means of this trade.
From The Life and Times of Ulric Zwingli by Hottinger, Johann Jakob
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