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Schwyz is a town and the capital of the canton of Schwyz in Switzerland. It houses the Federal Charter of 1291 or Bundesbrief - the charter that eventually led to the foundation of Switzerland - at th
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Fountain in the central plaza in Schwyz
View of Schwyz town below the Mythen mountains
Bundesbriefmuseum (Museum of the Swiss Charters of Confederation)
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Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a landlocked country located at the intersection of Central, Western, and Southern Europe. It is bordered by Germany to the north, France to the wes
Schwyz
…Schwyz (German pronunciation: ; French: Schwytz ; Italian: Svitto) is a town and the capital of the canton of Schwyz in Switzerland. It houses the Federal Charter of 1291 or Bundesbrief - the charter that eventually led to the foundation of Switzerland - at the Bundesbriefmuseum…
Founded in 44 BC by Lucius Munatius Plancus, Augusta Raurica (near Basel) was the first Roman settlement on the Rhine and is now among the most important archaeological sites in Switzerland.
The Old Swiss Confederacy from 1291 (dark green) to the sixteenth century (light green) and its associates (blue). In the other colours shown are the subject territories.
The 1291 Bundesbrief (federal charter)
The Act of Mediation was Napoleon's attempt at a compromise between the Ancien Régime and a Republic.