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n. A canton of Switzerland (its German name).
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The Canton of Aargau (German Kanton ; sometimes anglicized Argovia; see also other names) is one of the more northerly cantons of Switzerland. It is situated by the lower course of the Aare, which is why the canton is called Aar- gau (meaning Aare province). It is one of the most densely populated regions of Switzerland.
Usage examples of "aargau".
Zurich, however, along with Berne, Lucerne, and Solothurn agreed to defend the Aargau, the region adjoining Alsace along the river Aar, because it touched their borders and was their “boulevard.
Coucy and the companies did indeed go forward into the Aargau, leaving Alsace on St.
All Aargau in a fright abandoned arms and villages for refuge in the towns, leaving the Giiglers masters of the countryside.
Dividing themselves into three groups they spread out farther and farther into the Aargau as hunger and plunder drove them.
The more important cities of the Aargau had been made pledges for the unpaid portion of his mother’s dowry.
Bernard Aucien suggests that it may have been cap tured in 1388 when the Swiss regained Nidau which had been ceded to Coucy at the close of the Aargau campaign.
A whole generation, from the sack of Caen at Edward’s first landing to the raid in the Aargau, had accustomed itself to brigandage and resorted to it easily at home.
The Canton of Aargau is in the north of Switzerland, the river Aar joins the Rhine there.