Meanings of cantons of switzerland in English

The majority of the Swiss came from the German cantons of Switzerland.

The last execution in the Protestant cantons of Switzerland was at Geneva, in 1652.

The revolt soon spread into other cantons of Switzerland.

Fraulein Schult, who came from one of the German cantons of Switzerland, was an ideal 'promeneuse'.

These had settled for the most part in the Protestant cantons of Switzerland, in Holland, or England.

Another, in one of the forest cantons of Switzerland, bears a doggerel couplet, which may be thus translated:

When Wallenstein sat down before Stralsund everything was gone but England, Holland, Sweden, and some cantons of Switzerland.

The Cantons of Switzerland, the Communes and the National Governments of France, Italy, and Spain remain in possession of the waste.

Whatever its attractions, Mrs. Farrer was at times induced to go abroad, visiting, I imagine, only the Protestant cantons of Switzerland.

In some cantons of Switzerland children still kindle a need-fire by the friction of wood for the sake of dispelling a mist.

Even in France, in Southern Germany, and in the Catholic cantons of Switzerland, the public mind had been stirred to its inmost depths.

And this was at a moment when, with exception of the brave but insignificant cantons of Switzerland, the Republic had long been an obsolete idea.

In talking of the impossibility of Catholic and Protestant living together with equal privilege under the same government, do you forget the Cantons of Switzerland?