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
It was preordained that the three lands of Uri, Schwiz, and Unterwalden should unite for protection of common interests against the encroachment of a common enemy—the ambitious house of Hapsburg.
From Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 6 Germany, Austria-Hungary and Switzerland, part 2 by Francis W. (Francis Whiting) Halsey
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
It is a little green slope on the side of the mountain, between the two Cantons of Uri and Unterwalden, surrounded on all sides by precipices.
From Views a-foot by Bayard Taylor
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 Johann Jakob Hottinger
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