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
Volunteers from the Five Cantons, Unterwalden especially, advanced in front.
From The Life and Times of Ulric Zwingli by Hottinger, Johann Jakob
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
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
In 1798 the abbot lost all his temporal powers, and his domains were annexed to the Obwalden division of Unterwalden, but in 1803 were transferred to the Nidwalden division.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" by Various
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