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| | Old Swiss Confederacy - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04) |
 | | Zürich was also part of an alliance of cities around Lake Constance which also included Constance, Lindau and Schaffhausen and for some time included cities as far away as Rottweil or Ulm, and Berne followed its own hegemonial politics, participating successively in various alliances with other cities including Fribourg, Murten, Biel or Solothurn. |
 | | The confederates, united with the Alsacian cities and Sigismund in an "anti-burgundian league", conquered part of the Burgundian Jura (Franche-Comté), and the next year, Bernese forces conquered and ravaged the Vaud, which belonged to the Duchy of Savoy, which in turn was allied with Charles the Bold. |
 | | It also organized and oversaw the administration of the commons such as the County of Baden, the Thurgau, in the Rhine valley between Lake Constance and Chur, or those in the Ticino. |
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