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
In complaints against the abolition of their pilgrimages, the inhabitants of the Bernese Oberland joined with their neighbors of Unterwalden.
From The Life and Times of Ulric Zwingli by Hottinger, Johann Jakob
From 1462 onwards it was under the protectorate of Lucerne, Schwyz, Unterwalden and Uri.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" by Various
Uri called on Schwytz and Unterwalden for help, and on Zurich also, although it was not then included in the confederacy.
From The Life and Times of Ulric Zwingli by Hottinger, Johann Jakob
This party turns out to consist of Arnold Biederman, the Landamman, or Chief Magistrate of the Canton of Unterwalden, and his sons, who reside upon a farm among the mountains.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 373, Supplementary Number by Various
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