Description: A map showing Switzerland in 1847, subtitled "The Sonderbund War," a civil war between the predominately conservative Catholic cantons and the Protestant cantons. The map is color–coded to differentiate between the seven Catholic (Sonderbund) cantons of Lucerne, Fribourg, Valais, Uri, Schwyz, Unterwalden, and Zug, and the Protestant cantons.
Place Names: Switzerland, Basel, Bern, Biel, Chur, Fribourg, Geneva, Lausanne, Lugano, Winterthur, Zuric
ISO Topic Categories: oceans,
location,
inlandWaters,
boundaries
Keywords: Switzerland, political, historical, country borders,
local jurisdictions,
major political subdivisions, other military, oceans,
location,
inlandWaters,
boundaries, Unknown, 1847
Source: Ward, Prothero, and Leathes, The Cambridge Modern History Atlas (New York, NY: The Macmillan Company, 1912)
Map Credit: Courtesy the private collection of Roy Winkelman |
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