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Flags and arms of cantons of Switzerland information


The 22 cantonal coats of arms in the stained glass dome of the Federal Palace of Switzerland (c. 1900)
Great Seal of the Confederacy, with the Standesfarben to be worn by the cantonal huissiers (Standesweibel), print published in c. 1830.

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 20th centuries.

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Flags and arms of cantons of Switzerland

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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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Flag of Switzerland

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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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Coat of arms of Switzerland

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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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Flags and arms of municipalities of Switzerland

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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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Cantons of Switzerland

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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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Unterwalden

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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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Banner of arms

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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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Canton of Schwyz

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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 Swiss flags

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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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List of flags by design

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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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List of flags by color combination

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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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Flags of Europe

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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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List of country subdivision flags

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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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National symbols of Switzerland

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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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List of national flags by design

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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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Languages of Switzerland

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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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Municipalities of Switzerland

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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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Restoration and Regeneration in Switzerland

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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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Coat of arms of Bern

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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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Switzerland

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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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Canton

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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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Switzerland in the Napoleonic era

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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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Flag and coat of arms of Kedah

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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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Canton of Uri

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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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Coat of arms of Valais

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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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Canton of Basel

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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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Canton of Geneva

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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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Canton of Jura

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1979) of the 26 Swiss cantons, located in the northwestern part of Switzerland. The capital is Delémont. It shares borders with the canton of Basel-Landschaft...

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Civil ensign

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Several countries use red flags with, in most cases, either the respective national flag or the Union Flag in the canton, patterned after the Red Ensign...

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History of Switzerland

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Since 1848 the Swiss Confederation has been a federal republic of relatively autonomous cantons, some of which have a history of federation that goes...

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