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    Altdorf is a municipality in Switzerland. It is the capital of the Swiss canton of Uri and retains historic town privileges. It is the place where, according...
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    university. Altdorf also boasts some impressive remnants of its fortifications. Altdorf bei Nürnberg is twinned with: Altdorf, Switzerland Colbitz, Saxony-Anhalt...
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    Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a landlocked country located in west-central Europe. It is bordered by Italy to the south, France...
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    Dictionary of Switzerland, 25 June 2009. Hans Stadler: Altdorf (UR) in German, French and Italian in the online Historical Dictionary of Switzerland, 5 October...
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    William Tell (category Historiography of Switzerland)
    rule. Albrecht Gessler was the newly appointed Austrian Vogt of Altdorf, Switzerland. He raised a pole under the village lindentree, hung his hat on top...
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  • Altdorf, a compound word in German consisting of old and village, may refer to: Altdorf, Bas-Rhin Altdorf bei Nürnberg, a city in Bavaria Altdorf, Lower...
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    Altdorf railway station is a railway station in the Swiss canton of Uri and municipality of Altdorf. The station is situated on the Gotthard railway north...
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  • Claudio Fäh (category Swiss film directors)
    [Claudio Fäh, a Swiss director in Hollywood]. Swissinfo (in Italian). Retrieved 4 September 2017. "Von Altdorf nach Hollywood" [From Altdorf to Hollywood]...
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  • Erna Schillig (category Textile arts of Switzerland)
    plaster technique, sgraffito, and mosaic. Schillig was born in Altdorf, Uri, Switzerland on 27 September 1900. In the mid-1920s she belonged to the "Urner...
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    Simone Zgraggen (category Swiss classical violinists)
    Simone Zgraggen (born 8 August 1975 in Altdorf, Switzerland) is a Swiss violinist and professor at Freiburg University of Music. Simone Zgraggen began...
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