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EstablishedSource attached · not independently reviewedCLM-0379 · as of 2026-10-27 · about: Old Swiss Confederacy (to 1798) · Author: Polity Atlas editorial team

“The 1291 charter of Uri, Schwyz and Unterwalden was one of many comparable alliances; rediscovered in the eighteenth century, it was treated as the founding document of Switzerland only from the late nineteenth century, when the first federal celebration was held in 1891.”

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