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The canton of Zurich consists of lands acquired by the capital Zurich after it became reichsfrei in 1218, especially after the revolution of the guilds in 1336.
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Zurich ( German: Zürich, ; Swiss German: Züri ) is the largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zurich.
Zurich lost control of the land and its economic privileges, and the city and the canton separated their possessions between 1803 – 1805.
It borders the canton of Schwyz to the south and southeast ; the cantons of Lucerne and the ‘ Freiamt ’ of canton Aargau to the west ; and the canton of Zurich to the north and northeast.
Zürichsee is strictly the name of the part of the lake downstream of the dam at Rapperswil, mostly located within the canton of Zurich.
Schwyz ( Standard German ) is a canton in central Switzerland between the Alps in the south, Lake Lucerne to the west and Lake Zurich in the north, centered around and named after the town of Schwyz.
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The heraldic badge, referred to by the CHA as the mark of the Prime Ministership of Canada, consists of four red maple leaves joined at the stem on a white field (" Argent four maple leaves conjoined in cross at the stem Gules "); the augmentation has, so far, been granted either as a canton sinister or centred in the chief.
The design consists of a field of light blue ( called " Larkspur " or " U. N. blue "), two narrow parallel horizontal yellow (" Bunting Yellow ") stripes in the bottom half, and a four-pointed white-fimbriated red (" Union Flag red ") star in the canton.
The national flag of Chile, consists of two unequal horizontal bands of white and red and a blue square the same height as the white band in the canton, which bears a white five-pointed star in the center.
In the third session of the CIK of the USSR, the description of Soviet flag in the Constitution was changed, and article 71 was edited to be: ' The state flag of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics consists of a red or scarlet field, and in the canton a golden sickle and hammer, and a red five-pointed star bordered in gold above them.
Most of the canton consists of shallow river valleys which drain towards the Rhine to the north of the canton.
As a center of the Calvinist Reformation, the city of Geneva has had a great influence on the canton, which essentially consists of the city and its hinterlands.
The area of the canton of Bern consists of lands acquired by the city of Bern mostly between the 14th and the 16th century, both by conquest and purchase.
The national flag of Anguilla consists of a Blue Ensign with the British flag in the canton, charged with the coat of arms of Anguilla in the fly.
The state ensign, which is used only by the national coast guard, consists of a white field, a red cross, and the state flag in the canton.
It consists of a blue field with the state flag in the canton bordered by nine small yellow five-pointed stars, with a larger yellow five-pointed star in the fly.
The flag of the Customs Service was designed in 1799 by Secretary of the Treasury Oliver Wolcott, Jr. and consists of 16 vertical red and white stripes with a coat of arms depicted in blue on the white canton.
The marine Ensign consists of the main city flag in the upper canton with a life preserver on two tone blue background.
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