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Georg Kreis · Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz (HLS), version of 1999, edited 16.03.2011 · 2011

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Author: Georg Kreis
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EstablishedThe 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.