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Cantons 1, 2, 3, 6, 7 are located along the Gulf of Ajaccio from west to east, while 4 and 5 are a little further up the valleys of the Gravona and the Prunelli Rivers.
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The city of Ajaccio is one commune, but it contains six cantons, Cantons 1 – 6, and a fraction of Canton 7.
Covering an area of less than 1, 000 km < sup > 2 </ sup > within the province of Liège in Wallonia, it includes nine of the eleven municipalities of the so-called East Cantons and the local population numbers over 73, 000 — less than 1 % of the national total.
Cantons and 2
* Cantons: seat of 2 cantons ( 12 communes, 70, 709 inhabitants )
Cantons and 6
To raise the siege, Bern raised a force of 6, 000, consisting of Bernese, supported by the Forest Cantons, and other allies ( Simmental, Weissenbur and Oberhasli ).
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Smaller branches within those kingdoms include Principalities, Regions, Baronies, and Provinces, and local chapters are known as Cantons, Ridings, Shires, Colleges, Strongholds, and Ports.
Cantons have relatively few competences, the most important of which being the local organisation of elections ( cantons are electoral subdivisions ).
All flags of the Eight Cantons are shown, but the flags of Berne and Uri omit the heraldic animal, showing only the cantonal colours.
For instance, in the French-speaking Cantons of Switzerland the “ gendarmeries ” are the uniformed civil police ( see: Gendarmerie ( Switzerland )).
In ethnically mixed Cantons there are special legislative procedures for the protection of the constituent ethnic groups.
The Swiss Cantons of Glarus and Appenzell Innerrhoden are also nonpartisan, direct democracies ; while they have a partisan parliament, all laws have to be passed by " Landsgemeinde ", an assembly of all citizens eligible to vote.
All flags of the Eight Cantons are shown, but the flags of Berne and Uri omit the heraldic animal, showing only the cantonal colours.
The coats of arms of the Thirteen Cantons are based on medieval signs, originating as war flags and as emblems used on seals.
The Cantons of Switzerland are the top tier administrative subdivisions of the country.
Most Cantons are divided into Bezirke ( German for districts, singular Berzirk ).
The French Cantons of Burtscheid and Eschweiler are put together to form the Prussian Kreis Aachen.
It also has four Cantons which are part (" fiefdoms " of a Barony distant enough to be able to have meetings and events of their own but close enough to not be independent Shires ) and several unofficial local contacts in areas with too small a membership to form an official group.
The Cantons of Ecuador are the second-level subdivisions of Ecuador, below the provinces.
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In the Central Alps the chief event, on the northern side of the chain, is the gradual formation from 1291 to 1516 of the Swiss Confederacy, at least so far as regards the mountain Cantons, and with especial reference to the independent confederations of the Grisons and the Valais, which only became full members of the Confederation in 1803 and 1815 respectively.
The cantons became de facto independent from the Habsburgs at the same time as the Habsburgs were attempting to expand into the Forest Cantons.
In late September 1531, about 8, 000 soldiers from the Five Cantons ( including Uri ) marched against Zurich and Zwingli to lift this embargo.
By 1323, the Forest Cantons had made alliances with Bern and Schwyz signed an alliance with Glarus for protection from the Habsburgs.
A minor exception to this was the limited form of direct democracy which flourished in the Swiss Cantons from the later Middle Ages.
When they besieged the city of Sempach, troops from Zurich, Lucerne and the Forest Cantons marched out and defeated the Austrians at the Battle of Sempach.
In order to trade from Hamburg to Austria, from Berlin to the Swiss Cantons, one must cut through the statutes of ten states, study ten tolls and toll barriers, ten times go through the toll barriers, and ten times pay the tolls.
In the broader context of the treaties between France and the Holy Roman Empire, and Sweden and the Holy Roman Empire of 14 and 24 October 1648, which comprise the Peace of Westphalia, but which were not signed by the Republic, the Republic now also gained formal " independence " from the Holy Roman Empire, just like the Swiss Cantons.
The German-speaking minority was mostly settled in the ' Eastern Cantons ', several Prussian municipalities ceded to Belgium by the 1919 Treaty of Versailles and administered from 1920 to 1925 by a Belgian military High Commissioner.
This army was supported with troops from the Forest Cantons, Lucerne, Zurich, Neuchatel and Savoy and were armed with catapults and primitive guns.
In Switzerland, the family was from the Cantons of Geneva, Vaud, Neuchatel and Fribourg.
The Old Swiss Confederacy between phases of expansion consisted of Eight Cantons ( Acht Orte ) during 1352 – 1481, and of Thirteen Cantons from 1513 until its collapse in 1798.
The word cantonment is derived from the French word canton meaning corner or district, as is the name of the Cantons of Switzerland.
The Catholic Cantons restricted the suffrage to Catholic men and in many also to a group that descended from the original inhabitants.
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* The COSC The Swiss Official Chronometer testing Institute is founded in Switzerland by 5 Watch Cantons & Federation of the Swiss Watch Industry FH.
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Rudolph of Habsburg, who became King of Germany in 1273, effectively revoked the status of Reichsfreiheit granted to the " Forest Cantons " of Uri, Schwyz, and Unterwalden.
The Forest Cantons thus lost their independent status and were governed by reeves.
The traditional listing order of the cantons of Switzerland reflects this state, listing the eight " Old Cantons " first, with the city states preceding the founding cantons, followed by cantons that joined the Confederation after 1481, in historical order.
* Fribourg and Solothurn become Cantons of Switzerland.
The attraction of the south was too strong for both the Forest Cantons and the Grisons, so that both tried to secure, and actually did secure, various bits of the Milanese.
The remaining territory ( Baliaggi Ultramontani, Ennetbergische Vogteien, the Bailiwicks Beyond the Mountains ) was administered by the Twelve Cantons.
He published in the same volume a general description of the Alps, as the Introduction to his projected work on the several Swiss Cantons.
This also includes the municipalities of the East Cantons that were added to Belgium following the First World War.
The Rütlischwur ( Oath of the Rütli ) was another alliance between the Forest Cantons in or around 1308 and brought the cantons closer together.
After the victory at Morgarten, the Forest Cantons met at Brunnen on 9 December 1315 to renew the promise of mutual military assistance.
In response, the Cantons of Uri, Schwyz and Nidwalden raised an army of about 10, 000 men led by Alois von Reding to fight the French.
To help break the political power of the Inner Cantons, Uri ( without the Leventina but with the Urserental ), Schwyz ( without March and Höfe ), both half-cantons of Unterwalden, Zug, the Republic of Gersau and Engelberg Abbey were merged into the Canton of Waldstätten.
Map of Belgium in 1843: Eupen and the East Cantons were then German.
Waimes is one of two mostly French-speaking municipalities in the East Cantons, the other being Malmedy.
For the names of the institutions, see List of legislative and executive councils of the Cantons of Switzerland.
In Switzerland, the range covers the western border with France in the Cantons of Basel, Solothurn, Jura, Bern ( i. e., Bernese Jura ), Neuchâtel, Vaud, and the border with Germany in the canton of Schaffhausen.
" Lake of the Four Forested Cantons ") is a lake in central Switzerland and the fourth largest in the country.
While the traditional date of the Eternal Alliance of the Forest Cantons and the foundation of the Swiss Confederation is 1291, modern research indicates that it may have been as later, perhaps in 1307.
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