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    Each of the 26 modern cantons of Switzerland has an official flag and a coat of arms. The history of development of these designs spans the 13th to the...
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    Chronik of 1513. All flags of the Eight Cantons are shown, but the flags of Berne and Uri omit the heraldic animal, showing only the cantonal colours. In addition...
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  • Like the cantons of Switzerland, the municipalities has an official flag and a coat of arms. The history of development of these designs spans the 13th...
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    coat of arms surrounded by the twenty-two cantonal coats of arms. Similar heraldic arrangements representing the Thirteen Cantons of the Old Swiss Confederacy...
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    development of the Old Swiss Confederacy are summarized by the terms Acht Orte ('Eight Cantons'; from 1353–1481) and Dreizehn Orte ('Thirteen Cantons', from...
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    separate Swiss cantons (or two half-cantons), Obwalden and Nidwalden. The name Unterwalden is first recorded in 1304, as the translation of Latin inter...
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    of the founding cantons of Switzerland; Switzerland's name is derived from the name of the canton, and the flag of Switzerland from its coat of arms....
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  • list of flags used in Switzerland. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Flags of Switzerland. Flag of Switzerland Coat of arms of Switzerland List of Swiss...
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    include the state arms, while the civil versions don't. See Flags of German states. Flags of cities with over 1 million inhabitants: Flag of Amsterdam, Netherlands...
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  • dominant colors. Flags emblazoned with seals, coats of arms, and other multicolored emblems are sorted only by their color fields. The color of text is almost...
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    modern national flags which are banners of arms are the flags of Austria, Iraq, and Switzerland. The banner of arms is sometimes simply called a banner,...
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  • flags used by first-level and second-level country subdivisions. The flags of country subdivisions exhibit a wide variety of regional influences and local...
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  • official, a flag, coat of arms, and anthem, but various other symbols are used as well to represent the Swiss people. Switzerland currently does not have...
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  • the flag represents. Common design elements of flags include shapes such as stars, stripes, and crosses, layout elements such as including a canton (a...
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  • squares and crosses but no crescents, circles, stars, triangles, maps, flags, coats of arms or other objects or symbols. Charged flags are flags that contain...
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    German-speaking part of Switzerland between the rural cantons (Uri, Schwyz, Unterwalden, Glarus, Zug, Appenzell, Schaffhausen) and the city cantons (Lucerne, Berne...
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    of administrative division in Switzerland. Each municipality is part of one of the Swiss cantons, which form the Swiss Confederation. In most cantons...
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    December 1813, and lengthy discussions about future constitutions were initiated in all cantons of Switzerland. The Tagsatzung (the gathering of delegates...
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    The coat of arms of Bern, along with the associated flag and heraldic colours, are used both by the Swiss city of Bern and by the canton of the same name...
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  • countries Cantons of Switzerland, the member states of the Swiss Confederation Township (Canada), known as canton in Canadian French Canton (band), an...
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    The canton of Uri (German: Kanton Uri [ˈuːʁi] Romansh: Chantun Uri; French: Canton d'Uri; Italian: Canton Uri) is one of the 26 cantons of Switzerland and...
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  • The flag and coat of arms of Kedah are the state symbols of Kedah, Malaysia. Very little distinction is present between the flag and coat of arms of the...
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    Swiss, not as members of a specific canton. For cantons like Vaud, Thurgau and Ticino the Republic was a time of political freedom from other cantons...
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    Basel was a canton of Switzerland that was in existence between 1501 and 1833, when it was split into the two half-cantons of Basel-City and Basel-Country...
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    nations nor ministates. Switzerland as a federal state was established in 1848. Before that time, the city-cantons of Zürich, Geneva, and Basel in particular...
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    1815 (Swiss Confederacy). Wikimedia Commons has media related to Coats of arms of the canton of Valais. Flags and arms of cantons of Switzerland La ville...
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    The Canton of Geneva, officially the Republic and Canton of Geneva, is one of the 26 cantons of the Swiss Confederation. It is composed of forty-five municipalities...
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    of the national popular vote and the popular cantonal votes. The Swiss Confederation consists of 26 cantons: *These cantons are known as half-cantons...
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    four flags that currently use the colour scheme of blue and yellow, the others being Kazakhstan, Palau, and Ukraine. The dimensions of the Swedish flag are...
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    second-largest canton by both surface area and population. Located in west-central Switzerland, it is surrounded by eleven cantons. It borders the cantons of Jura...
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