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    The canton of Schwyz (German: Kanton Schwyz [ʃviːts] Romansh: Chantun Sviz; French: Canton de Schwytz; Italian: Canton Svitto) is a canton in central...
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    Schwyz (German pronunciation: [ʃviːts] ; French: Schwytz; Italian: Svitto) is a town and the capital of the canton of Schwyz in Switzerland. The Federal...
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  • Schwyz District is a district of the canton of Schwyz, Switzerland. It is both the largest and most populous of the six districts of the canton of Schwyz...
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    Freienbach in the canton of Schwyz, Switzerland. Together with Wollerau, Pfäffikon is considered the principal town of the district (Bezirk) of Höfe and the center...
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  • Look up Bezirk in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The German term Bezirk (plural Bezirke, derived from Latin: circulus, "circle") translated as "district"...
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    Gersau (redirect from Gersau (Schwyz))
    Gersau is a municipality and district in the canton of Schwyz in Switzerland, sitting on the shores of Lake Lucerne. Gersau was for many centuries an independent...
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  • city of Schwyz. Following the collapse of the post-invasion Helvetic Republic, in 1803 as part of the Act of Mediation Einsiedeln became a Bezirk (or District)...
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    organization. However, for historical reasons districts in cantons Grisons and Schwyz are their own legal entities with jurisdiction over tax and often have their...
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    Euthal (category Villages in the canton of Schwyz)
    (KIGBO) Nr. 26.028". Kanton Schwyz. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 13 July 2016. "Genossame Euthal". Bezirk Einsiedeln. Retrieved 13...
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  • March District is a district in Canton of Schwyz, Switzerland. The coat of arms of the district is gules, an annulet sable — a black ring on a red background...
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  • Upper Austria Ried im Innkreis, a city in Upper Austria and the surrounding Bezirk Ried im Innkreis Ried im Oberinntal, a village in Tyrol Ried im Traunkreis...
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    Germany, with a great deal of research infrastructure. It was the centre of Bezirk Dresden (Dresden District) between 1952 and 1990. Many of the city's important...
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    Old Swiss Confederacy, named in the Pact of Brunnen of 1315 with Uri and Schwyz. The division of Unterwalden into two separate territories, Nidwalden and...
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  • Höfe District (category Districts of the canton of Schwyz)
    Höfe District is a district of the canton of Schwyz, Switzerland. The coat of arms of the Höfe is per pale: gules, two lions rampant contourny or; and...
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    Grynau Castle (category Cultural property of national significance in the canton of Schwyz)
    Rapperswil Albert Jörger: Die Kunstdenkmäler des Kantons Schwyz. Neue Ausgabe, Volume II: Der Bezirk March. Basel 1989, ISBN 3909158226. Herman Wartmann (1835)...
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    By the transfer of the lordship of Windegg to the cantons of Glarus and Schwyz in 1438 the abbey passed, as part of the common overlordship of Windegg...
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    with a bull's head. A treaty of mutual recognition and assistance with Schwyz, possibly concluded in 1291 and certainly by 1309, would come to be regarded...
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    Mellingen, the Zurich troops joined forces with those of Lucerne, Glarus, Schwyz, Unterwalden and Zug. Together, they compelled the inhabitants of Bremgarten...
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    {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help) "Statistische Werte Bezirk Appenzell" (official site) (in German). Appenzell, AI: District Appenzell...
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    around Lake Zurich, which are located around Lake Zurich in the cantons of Schwyz, St. Gallen and Zurich, make up a considerable portion of the 56 sites in...
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    14 April 1500, as a condominium under the joint administration of Uri, Schwyz and Nidwalden. Following the Napoleonic invasion of Switzerland in 1798...
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    Nicholas (10 September 2006). "A New Williamsburg! Berlin's Expats Go Bezirk". The New York Observer. Archived from the original on 9 September 2008...
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    Geschichtsfreund: Mitteilungen des Historischen Vereins der fünf Orte Luzern, Uri, Schwyz, Unterwalden und Zug, vols. 126-130 (1974), p. 257. Olten in German, French...
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    to the warring powers—the Abbey and the four cantons of Glarus, Lucerne, Schwyz and Zürich—bringing the bailiwick into the ambit of the Old Swiss Confederation...
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    GDR, in 1952, Schwerin served as the capital of the Schwerin district (Bezirk Schwerin). After reunification in 1990, the former state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern...
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    Innsbruck is further divided into forty-two statistical units (Statistischer Bezirk) and 178 numbered blocks (Zählsprengel). The following are the nine boroughs...
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    stand against the abbot, and in 1403 formed an alliance with the Canton of Schwyz, a member of the Old Swiss Confederation that had defeated the Austrians...
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    administrative districts known as Bezirke. Potsdam became the capital of the new Bezirk Potsdam until 1990. Potsdam, south-west of Berlin, lay just outside West...
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    Eisbach, a tributary of the Wulka. The city is surrounded by the district (Bezirk) of Eisenstadt-Umgebung. The city previously included the districts (Ortsteile)...
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    Forest Cantons. It entered into a permanent or eternal alliance with Uri, Schwyz and Unterwalden in 1353. This date is usually considered the date of Bern's...
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