'''''''' (, "forested sites/settlements;" ) is a term which has been used since the early thirteenth century to refer to the (singular: , "site" "settlement"), or later Ort(schaft)'' (plural: , "locality" "place" "lieu") or (plural: , "estate") of the early confederate allies of Uri, Schwyz and Unterwalden in today's Central Switzerland. thumb|1645 map showing the Waldstätte: Uri, Schwyz, Unterwalden and Lucerne. From the 13th to 19th centuries, the term also synoptically referred to the nucleus of the Swiss Confederacy of Uri, Schwyz and Unterwalden; later, the term was gradually replaced by
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- Old Swiss Confederacy
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- Waldstaetten.jpg
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- New International Encyclopedia
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