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 landvogt Kretz from Unterwalden met with the same treatment in the Rheinthal, but in this case without the aid of Zurich.
From The Life and Times of Ulric Zwingli by Hottinger, Johann Jakob
In Glarus and Unterwalden, where the population is smaller, the right of discussion is still retained by these assemblies, but in Appenzell it has been found expedient to abolish it.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 118, August, 1867 by Various
The sister valley of Upper Unterwalden was the most fertile and beautiful.
From The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 4, July, 1851 by Various
After their return home the people of Lucerne and Unterwalden raised the war-banner and fell on the territory of Constance, the inhabitants of which had to pay 5000 gulden as an expiation.
From Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. I. by Freytag, Gustav
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