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	SWITZERLAND - LoveToKnow Article on SWITZERLAND (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The cantons organize primary education in their territories, delegating local arrangements (under the control of a cantonal inspector) to a committee (Schulkommission) elected ad hoc in each commune, so that it is not a committee of the communal council.
		There thus remained to the cantons the raising of all the infantry units and of most of the cavalry and artillery units as well as the nomination of the officers of all arms; all these acts were subject to the supervision of the Confederation and had to be in accordance with Federal laws and regulations.
		In some cantons the young men, between the ages of eighteen and twenty, are required to attend a night school (in order to rub up their school knowledge) for sixty hours a winter for two winters, the teacher being paid by the Confederation and the lads being under military law.
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	Switzerland - Search View - MSN Encarta
		In the sunny and southerly canton of Ticino, Mediterranean-style scrub vegetation and pines are common.
		The cantonal judiciary is composed of two or three levels of courts, depending on the size of the canton.
		The urban cantons of Lucerne, Zürich, and Bern, and the rural cantons of Glarus and Zug, made separate alliances with the three forest cantons between 1332 and 1353, establishing a series of confederations.
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	YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> Chur (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Chur, a city and former prince-bishopric (German Chur (khoor) [ku:r] (in GraubÃ¼nden); [xu:r] (elsewhere), Romansh Cuira (KWAY-rah) ['kwera] or (KWOI-rah) ['kwojra], Italian Coira (KOI-rah) ['kojra]), is the capital of the Swiss canton of GraubÃ¼nden and lies in the northern part of the canton.
		The bishopric still existed in the early 20th century, with jurisdiction over the Cantons of the Grisons, Glarus, Zurich, and the three Forest Cantons, as well as the sovereign principality of Liechtenstein.
		Three Benedictine abbeys â”Einsiedeln, Engelberg, and Disentisâ” are within the diocese and, with the church of St. Nicolaus von der Flue at Sachseln, are places of pilgrimage.
	www.yourart.com /research/encyclopedia.cgi?subject=/Chur (1571 words)

	Lucerne
		Chief town of the Canton of Lucerne in Switzerland.
		The victories of the Radicals in several cantons and the murder of Leu (20 July, 1845) caused Lucerne to conclude a separate alliance (Sonderbund, 11 Dec., 1845) with Uri, Schwyz, Unterwalden, Fribourg, Zug, and Valais, in opposition to the alliance of the Liberal cantons of 1832.
		The canton of Lucerne, at the census of 1900, numbered 146,519 inhabitants, 134,020 of whom were Catholics, 12,085 were Protestants, and 414 of other denominations; the city, 29,255 inhabitants (23,955 Catholics, 4933 Protestants, 299 Jews).
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/l/lucerne.html (2551 words)

	2. The Swiss Confederation. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
		Lake Lucerne and the original Forest Cantons belonged to the duchy of Swabia, and the expansion of powerful Swabian families during the Great Interregnum led the Forest Cantons to a determined effort to replace feudal allegiances to various nobles with a single direct allegiance to the emperor.
		The Forest Cantons of Uri (already acknowledged independent of any but a loose imperial allegiance in 1231), Schwyz, and Unterwalden emerged as champions of local independence and masters of the St. Gothard Pass into Italy.
		Additions to the Forest Cantons: canton of Lucerne (1332); canton of Zurich (1351); canton of Glarus (1352); canton of Bern (1353), bringing the number to seven, half of which were peasant cantons, the other half urban.
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	the Four Forest Cantons
		In 1291 the three mountain forest cantons (Unterwalden, Schwyz, and Uri) formed the League of Forest Cantons as the nucleus of an independent Switzerland.
		The Lake of the Four Forest Cantons (Vierwaldstättersee) is called in English the Lake of Lucerne.
		Unterwalden - Unterwalden, canton, central Switzerland, one of the Four Forest Cantons.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/world/A0819353.html (152 words)

	Switzerland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Women were granted the right to vote in the first cantons in 1959, at the federal level in 1971, in the last canton, Appenzell Innerrhoden, only in 1990.
		On April 18, 1999 the Swiss population and the cantons voted in favour of a completely revised federal constitution.
		Switzerland comprises three basic topographical areas: the Swiss Alps, the Swiss plateau, and the Jura mountains.The Alps are a high mountain range running across the central-south of the country.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Switzerland (3538 words)

	William Tell -=SKYGAZE=- Interesting Facts, The Strange and Unexplained, Mysteries and Secrets
		The scene is the marketplace of Altdorf in Canton Uri, one of the three forest cantons, or states, of the Swiss heartland.
		In a subsequent rebellion the marksman slays the king in a forest ambush.
		In the wake of this victory the three forest cantons were joined by other breakaway provinces until, by 1353, there were eight members of the confederation, including the cities of Lucerne, Zurich, and Bern.
	www.skygaze.com /content/mysteries/WilliamTell.shtml (2130 words)

	Switzerland
		In 1291, representatives of the three forest cantons of Uri, Schwyz, and Unterwalden signed the Eternal Alliance[?].
		Cantons marked by a * are represented by only one councilor in the Council of States[?]
		Switzerland has four official languages: German (64%) in the north and centre, French (19%) to the west, Italian (8%) in the south, and finally Romansh, a Romance language spoken by a small minority (<1%) in the southeastern canton Grisons.
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	History of SWITZERLAND (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Three groups of people, speaking three different languages, press against the Alps, trade through the mountain passes, squabble over possession of the valleys.
		The overlord of these forest districts becomes exceptionally powerful in 1273 when the Habsburg duke Rudolf is elected German king.
		On the death of Rudolf I, in 1291, the three forest districts of Uri, Schwyz and Unterwalden openly campaign against the election of his Habsburg successor, Albert, as German king.
	www.historyworld.net /wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?historyid=ac78 (1779 words)

	Switzerland - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Switzerland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Switzerland is a federation of 20 cantons and six half-cantons (canton is the name for a political division, derived from Old French).
		Members of the Council of States are elected for three or four years, depending on the constitutions of the individual cantons.
		During the period 1523–29 the northern cantons of Zürich, Berne, and Basel accepted the reformist teachings of Ulrich Zwingli, while the forest cantons remained Roman Catholic.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Switzerland (2789 words)

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		Curia Raetorum, Romonsch Cuera), the capital of the Swiss canton of the Grisons.
		The bishopric still exists, with jurisdiction over the Cantons of the Grisons, Glarus, Zurich, and the three Forest Cantons, as well as the Austrian principality of Liechtenstein.
		The gild constitution of the city of Chur lasted from 1465 to 1839, while in 1874 the Burgergemeinde was replaced by an Einwohnergemeinde.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /correction/edit?locale=en&content_id=16642 (392 words)

	Brewer, E. Cobham. Dictionary of Phrase & Fable. Gess’ler (g hard). (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Austrian governor of the three Forest Cantons of Switzerland.
		This act of injustice roused the people to rebellion, and Gessler, having put to death Melch’tal, the patriarch of the Forest Cantons, insulted the people by commanding them to bow down to his cap, hoisted on a high pole.
		Tell refusing so to do, was arrested with his son, and Gessler, in the refinement of cruelty, imposed on him the task of shooting with his bow and arrow an apple from the head of his own son.
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	A Brief History of Switzerland
		Historically and until the mid-19th century, each canton in the then-confederation was a sovereign state, with its own borders, army, and currency; the current federal structure was established in 1848.
		These states were called cantons, and there were two different kinds of cantons: the six forest cantons and seven urban cantons.
		The six forest cantons were democratic republics, while the seven urban cantons were governed by city councils.
	www.magicaljourneys.com /Switzerland/switzerland-interest-history.html (948 words)

	History of the Christian Church, Volume VIII: Modern Christianity. The Swiss Reformation. (iv.i.i)
		Lucerne (the fourth forest canton) joined the confederacy in 1332, Zurich in 1351, Glarus and Zug in 1352, Berne in 1353, Freiburg and Solothurn (Soleur) in 1481, Basle and Schaffhausen in 1501, Appenzell in 1513,—making in all thirteen cantons at the time of the Reformation.
		This republic was originally a loose, aristocratic confederacy of independent cantons, ruled by a diet of one house where each canton had the same number of deputies and votes, so that a majority of the Diet could defeat a majority of the people.
		The small forest cantons had each as many votes as the much larger cantons of Zurich and Berne, and kept out Protestantism from their borders till the year 1848.
	www.ccel.org /ccel/schaff/hcc8.iv.i.i.html (1290 words)

	Switzerland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Under the 1999 constitution cantons hold all powers not specifically to the federation.
		The 46 members of the Council of (two from each canton and one from half cantons) are directly elected in each whereas the 200 members of the National are elected directly under a system of proportional representation.
		Cantons are divided in a total of 2 889 municipalities.
	www.freeglossary.com /Switzerland (1714 words)

	Switzerland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Main article: History of Switzerland Switzerland is a federation of relatively autonomous cantons, some of which have a history of confederacy that goes back more than 700 years, arguably putting them among the world's oldest surviving republics.
		Women were granted the right to vote in the first cantons in 1959, at the federal level in 1971, in the last canton only in 1990.
		On April 18, 1999 the Swiss population and the cantons voted in favor of a completely revised federal constitution.
	switzerland.wikix.ipupdater.com (2062 words)

	Ticino canton (Switzerland)
		The original three Forest Cantons (Waldstaetten) began expanding southwards into Italian states as early as the 13th century.
		In May 1803, two months after the creation of the canton, the Great Council resolved that the arms would be red and blue but did not specify their relative positions.
		In 1809 the canton organised its military forces, and adopted a red over blue battle flag with the gold inscriptions "Pro Patria" in the upper part, and "Pagus Ticinensis" in the lower.
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/ch-ti.html (514 words)

	Switzerland - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
		According to the popular legend, in 1291, representatives of the three forest cantons of Uri, Schwyz, and Unterwalden signed the Federal Charter.
		The authenticity of the Federal Charter is disputed, with many historians agreeing that it is in fact a forgery of the 14th century.
		The former ten-year moratorium on the construction of new nuclear power plants was the result of a citizens' initiative voted on in 1990 which had passed with 54.5% Yes vs. 45.5% No votes (see Nuclear power phase-out#Switzerland for details).
	www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/s/w/i/Switzerland.html (2919 words)

	The Swiss Revolution
		For obvious reasons, the emperor disliked the idea of a powerful feudal resistance seizing this strategical passage, and he was anxious to support the peasant resistance.
		On August 1st, 1291 the three forest cantons signed a pact of mutual cooperation against the Habsburgs.
		The cantons retained their own political forms of government, some being oligarchic republics, some being peasant communes governed by some kind of direct democracy.
	www.geocities.com /CapitolHill/2594/ch1291.html (930 words)

	HISTORY
		The inhabitants of the old cantons around the Lake of Lucerne were, and are to this day, among the most honest and pious Catholics; but the clergy were ignorant, superstitious, and immoral, and set a bad example to the laity.
		The Zwinglian Reformation in the German cantons from 1516 to Zwingli’s death and the peace of Cappel, 1531.
		Both agree in the three fundamental principles of Protestantism: the absolute supremacy of the Divine Scriptures as a rule of faith and practice; justification by free grace through faith; the general priesthood of the laity.
	www.ccel.org /s/schaff/history/8_ch01.htm (3983 words)

	Guide and Travel Facts: Lugano to Lucerne, Switzerland
		The major historical landmarks are the three medieval castles, built between the 13th and 15th centuries.
		A pact was formed, uniting these Swiss cantons against the ruling Austrians, and signed on August 1, 1291 —; the Swiss "Fourth of July." The episode of William Tell and the apple occurred on a field outside Altdorf, and a lifelike statue of Switzerland's national hero stands in Altdorf's main square.
		(The canton flag puts the white cross in one corner; the Swiss national flag puts the white cross in the center.) During the Middle Ages, many European kings hired Swiss mercenaries to fight their wars, since they were reliable, good fighters, and could be counted on to finish the job.
	www.passports.com /trips/cityfact/cityfact.asp?city=Lugano+to+Lucerne (1061 words)

	HighBeam Encyclopedia - Four Forest Cantons, the (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Die Vier Waldstätten, in central Switzerland, the cantons of Unterwalden, Schwyz, Uri, and Lucerne, the first Swiss communities to win their freedom against the Hapsburgs.
		Canopy gap characteristics and tree replacement in the southeastern boreal forest.
		The Tennessee tree massacre: the paper industry is destroying one of America's last great stands of native forest to bring you fresh shopping bags and toilet paper.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/F/FourFore.asp (349 words)

	YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> 1291 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		May 10 - Scottish nobles recognize the authority of King Edward I of England in mediating resolution of the succession crisis created by the death of King Alexander III of Scotland five years prior.
		Early August - According to tradition, the Swiss Confederation is formed by Uri, Schwyz, and Unterwalden, the "three forest cantons.
		A purported enacting document, the Federal Charter of 1291, is now widely believed to be a forgery.
	www.yourart.com /research/encyclopedia.cgi?subject=/1291 (445 words)

	History of the Christian Church, Schaff, 1910 edition with power search.
		The territory of the French Cantons, which embraces 1665 square miles, was in the sixteenth century under the protection of the Swiss Confederacy.
		The original Confederacy of the Three Forest Cantons (Urcantone, Waldstätte), Uri, Schwyz, and Unterwalden, from Aug. 1, 1291 (the date of the renewal of an older covenant of 1244) to 1332.
		Luzern joined the Forest Cantons in 1332 (thenceforward the Confederacy was called the Bund der Vier Waldstätte, to which in 1352 was added Zug as the Fifth Forest Canton; hence the Fünf Orte or Five Cantons).
	www.bible.ca /history/philip-schaff/8_ch07.htm (9508 words)

	Heroic Legends - The Archer of Schwitz
		Round the Lake of Lucerne lay the three forest cantons of Schwitz, Uri, and Unterwalden.
		Here, when the night was still and the lucent skies sparkling with stars, three men met to discuss a matter that had little to do with the brilliant stars and quiet lake: how to rid the cantons of their oppressors and prevent the recurrence of evil deeds.
		Then were the people of the cantons greatly troubled, for they had no wish to bow to the power of Austria, since they recognized.in Albrecht their lord only as Emperor of Germany; but neither did they wish to fall into the hands of the governor's soldiers, and suffer insult and disgrace.
	www.kellscraft.com /williamtell.html (3955 words)

	Articles - Switzerland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The titles commonly used in French, Italian and Romansh translate as Swiss Confederation, while the German name of ´´Schweizerische Eidgenossenschaft´´ translates literally as "Swiss Oath Fellowship" or "Swiss Commonwealth of the Covenant".
		The charter united the involved parties in the struggle against the rule by the Habsburgs, who then held the German imperial throne of the Holy Roman Empire.
		The conflict between and Protestant cantons persisted, erupting in further violence at the battles of Villmergen in 1656 and 1712.
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