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'''Waldstätte''' (literally, "forest settlement") since the early 14th century had been a term for the wooded territories of the Alpine foothills of Central Switzerland. ''Drei Waldstätten'' or
'three forest cantons' collectively refers to the founding cantons of the Old Swiss Confederacy of 1291, 'Uri', 'Schwyz' and 'Unterwalden', all of them situated at Lake Lucerne, in German called ''Vierwaldstättersee'' "lake of the four forest cantons", referring to the three cantons just named, and to the Canton of Lucerne, the first canton to join the confederation (1332).

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★ History of Switzerland

★ Federal Charter of 1291

★ Eidgenossenschaft