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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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 linden tree, hung his hat on...
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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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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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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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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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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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Henry Haller (category Swiss chefs)
Haller's death was announced on November 9, 2020. Haller was born in Altdorf, Switzerland, in 1923. He was of French descent on his mother's side and German...
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