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Definition of Cantons
1. canton [v] - See also: canton
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cantons
Literary usage of Cantons
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Sir Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1909)
"Thus the alliance which she desired was concluded with the Catholic cantons only,
precisely as they had intended, but not without their having to submit to ..."
2. The Governments of Europe by Frederic Austin Ogg (1920)
"CHAPTER XXXII GOVERNMENT IN THE cantons General Features. — In the main, the
national government of Switzerland has been evolved from political principles, ..."
3. Europe Since 1815 by Charles Downer Hazen (1910)
"But these were the smaller and poorer cantons. In others, the government was ...
Most of the cantons, therefore, were not democratic, but were governed by ..."
4. The Reformation by George Park Fisher (1896)
"There was a growing hostility between the five mountain cantons that remained
... The Catholic cantons entered into a league with Ferdinand of Austria. ..."
5. The Reformation: By George P. Fisher by George Park Fisher (1891)
"There was a growing hostility between the five mountain cantons that remained
... The Catholic cantons entered into a league with Ferdinand of Austria. ..."
6. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"But the small cantons around the Lake of Lucerne, Uri, Schwytz, ... At last it
came to open war between the Reformed and Roman Catholic cantons. ..."
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