English Explanatory Dictionary

Sonderbund

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. The Swiss cantons of Lucerne, Fribourg, Valais, Uri, Schwyz, Unterwalden, and Zug, all predominantly Catholic and governed by conservative administrations, and the subject of the Sonderbund War of 1847.

Word forms

Sonderbund the Sonderbund

Etymology

From German Sonderbund (literally “special alliance”).

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