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The canton of Schwyz (German: Kanton Schwyz ⓘ; Romansh: Chantun Sviz; French: Canton de Schwytz; Italian: Canton Svitto) is a canton in central Switzerland between the Alps in the south, Lake Lucerne to the west and Lake Zürich in the north, centred on and named after the town of Schwyz.
For instance, the word English may be written by Hindi speakers as इंगलिश (rather than इंग्लिश्) which may be transliterated back to Ingalisha by automated systems, but schwa deletion would result in इंगलिश being correctly pronounced as Inglish by native Hindi-speakers.
Eidgenossenschaft and Schwytzerland (the origin of the English name Switzerland) could be used interchangeably as country names in the 16th century. The Swiss German pronunciation [ʃviːts] is the same for the name of the town and that of the country (the two are distinguished only by use of the definite article for the latter, [ʃviːts ...
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Outer Schwyz (German: Ausserschwyz, formally Kanton Schwyz äusseres Land, Canton of Schwyz Outer Territory) was a half-canton of Switzerland from 1831 to 1833.. In 1831 the three outer districts of Schwyz, centered on Pfäffikon, March and Einsiedeln, and the district of Küssnacht, wished to secede from Schwyz within the scope of the regeneration movement.
A desire for reform led the Districts of March, Küssnacht and Pfäffikon to declare themselves Kanton Schwyz äusseres Land (Canton of Schwyz, Outer Lands) with a liberal constitution in 1832. The Abbey stood on the side of the conservative faction in the Canton, which caused tense relations between them and the surrounding villages until the ...
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Kanton may refer to: The German name used for the Cantons of Switzerland or the Cantons of Prussia; The Bosnian name used for the Cantons of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina; A variation of Canton, the old English name for Guangzhou in China; Kanton Island in Kiribati, Pacific Ocean; Historical divisions of the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia