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
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
They had certain intelligence that Unterwalden intended to escort her landvogt to Baden with an armed force.
From The Life and Times of Ulric Zwingli by Johann Jakob Hottinger
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 Johann Jakob Hottinger
In ancient times," so he writes, "Zurich and Bern united as confederates with the Four Forest Cantons, Luzern, Uri, Schwyz, and Unterwalden.
From The Life and Times of Ulric Zwingli by Johann Jakob Hottinger
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