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    The Federal Diet of Switzerland (German: Tagsatzung, IPA: [ˈtaːkˌzatsʊŋ]; French: Diète fédérale; Italian: Dieta federale) was the legislative and executive...
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    conflict from the 16th to the 18th centuries; as a result, the federal diet (Tagsatzung) was often paralysed by hostility between the factions. The Swiss Confederacy...
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    the city of Rottweil, in a feud against the lords of Landenberg. The Tagsatzung decided that the Swiss auxiliaries sent to Rottweil should receive "a...
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    future constitutions were initiated in all cantons of Switzerland. The Tagsatzung (the gathering of delegates from all the nineteen cantons) which took...
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    organ of Switzerland was the Federal Diet (Tagsatzung). Following the Sonderbund War in 1847, the Tagsatzung became responsible for drawing up the Swiss...
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    solemn declaration of the Tagsatzung declared the Federal Constitution adopted on 12 September 1848. A resolution of the Tagsatzung of 14 September 1848 specified...
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    the Tagsatzung at Stans in 1481. Top: A priest named Heini am Grund visits Niklaus von Flüe to ask him for his advice to save the failing Tagsatzung at...
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    coat of arms (eidgenössisches Wappen) was defined by the Swiss Diet (Tagsatzung) in 1815, for the Restored Confederacy. A more elaborate federal seal...
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    party accused Zürich of territorial ambitions. While the Federal Diet (Tagsatzung) had successfully mediated in 1529, on this occasion the attempt failed...
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  • Grand Duchy of Finland, from 1809 to 1906. The Swiss legislature was the Tagsatzung (French: Diète) before the Federal Assembly replaced it in the mid-19th...
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    governed by liberal administrations, did not join the alliance. After the Tagsatzung (Federal Diet) declared the Sonderbund unconstitutional (October 1847)...
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    University Library. London, New York, Macmillan and co. Würgler, A.: Tagsatzung in German, French and Italian in the online Historical Dictionary of Switzerland...
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    restoring the late feudal conditions of the 17th and 18th centuries. The Tagsatzung was reorganized by the Federal Treaty (Bundesvertrag) of 7 August 1815...
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    in 1555. Politically, this gave the Catholic cantons a majority in the Tagsatzung, the federal diet of the confederacy. When their Protestant city alliance...
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    repeatedly flooded and devastated, in 1750 the Surbtal Jews asked the Tagsatzung to establish a cemetery in the vicinity of their communities in the Surb...
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    diet, the Tagsatzung developed in the 15th century. The second unifying treaty later became the Stanser Verkommnis in 1481. The Tagsatzung typically met...
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    the so-called peace on the Murifeld. The peasant armies retreated. The Tagsatzung, the federal council of the Old Swiss Confederacy, then sent an army from...
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    Rhaeto-Romance languages Demonym(s) Swiss Government Federal Republic Legislature Tagsatzung Historical era Napoleonic Wars • Act of Mediation 19 February 1803 • Federal...
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  • central institution of the German Confederation from 1815 to 1848 The Tagsatzung, the legislative and executive council of the Old Swiss Confederacy This...
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    five alpine Catholic cantons, in which Bern also participated. While the Tagsatzung had successfully mediated in 1529, on this occasion the attempt failed...
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    shields (escutcheons) as coats of arms arises in the late 15th century. The Tagsatzung in Baden was presented with stained glass representations of all cantons...
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    Nidwalden was Unterwalden nit dem Kernwald. Unterwalden's votes in the Tagsatzung were split between the two valleys. Between 1798 and 1803 it became the...
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    Hülftenschanz. August 26, 1833 – The Canton of Basel is partitioned by the Swiss Tagsatzung, to create the two half-cantons of Basel-City and Basel-Country. August...
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  • (such as the Icelandic Commonwealth, the Swiss Landsgemeinde and later Tagsatzung, and the High Medieval communal movement linked to the rise of medieval...
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    repeatedly flooded and devastated, in 1750 the Surbtal Jews asked the Tagsatzung to establish the Endingen cemetery in the vicinity of their communities...
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  • This is a list of presidents of the Diet ("Tagsatzung") of the Swiss Confederation (before 1848). For the period since the creation of Switzerland as a...
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    had supplied the most troops. The country cantons resented this and the Tagsatzung or leadership of each of the cantons met in Stans in 1481 to resolve the...
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    can be used from 7 am to 10 pm. The use is for free. The old town, the Tagsatzung room in the city hall, the 1847 railway station and the building of the...
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    Landsgemeinde approved the federal constitution. Uri then mediated between the Tagsatzung and Nidwalden, which had refused to recognize the treaty. Uri remained...
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  • cases of external threats by the Tagsatzung or by the canton in distress. In the federal treaty of 1815, the Tagsatzung prescribed cantonal troops to put...
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