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Answer for the clue "Country of 23 cantons ", 11 letters:
switzerland

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
named for Schwyz , one of its original cantons. On postage stamps, etc., identified by the Roman name for the region, Helvetia , to avoid having to print the four different forms of the name in the country’s four official languages: Suisse , Schweiz , ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Switzerland is a country in Europe. Switzerland may also refer to: Bohemian Switzerland , a region in the north-western Czech Republic Franconian Switzerland , an upland in Upper Franconia, northern Bavaria Holstein Switzerland , a hilly area in Schleswig-Holstein, ...

Gazetteer Word definitions in Gazetteer
Population (2000): 9065 Housing Units (2000): 4226 Land area (2000): 221.181032 sq. miles (572.856219 sq. km) Water area (2000): 2.340200 sq. miles (6.061090 sq. km) Total area (2000): 223.521232 sq. miles (578.917309 sq. km) Located within: Indiana (IN), ...

Usage examples of switzerland.

Sentis, and Appenzell, by the middle of the fifteenth century, became one of the original states out of which Switzerland has grown.

The fight against the Past is thus seen to be the fight against the extra-European forces, for it is they who are perpetuating the atomizing of Europe, the Balkanization of a Culture, the Switzerland of the West.

And for the first time, Colonel Baraka wondered how King Adras liked Switzerland, and whether he might enjoy it there himself.

As from the Bernese Oberland and from the valleys of the Reuss and Limmath gigantic glaciers came down and stretched across the plain of Switzerland to the Jura, scattering their erratic boulders over its summit and upon its slopes at the time of their greater extension, and, as they withdrew into the higher Alpine valleys, leaving them along their retreating track at the foot of the Jura and over the whole plain, so did the glaciers from Glen Prossen and parallel valleys on the Grampian Mountains extend across the valley of Strathmore, dropping their boulders not only on the slopes and along the base of the Sidlaw Hills, but scattering them in their retreat throughout the valley, until they were themselves reduced to isolated glaciers in the higher valleys.

At the same time other glaciers came down from the heights of Schihallion on the west, and, descending through the valley of the Tay, joined the great masses of ice in the valley of Strathmore, thus combining with the eastern ice-field, just as the glacier from Mont Blanc and the valley of the Rhone formerly combined in the western part of Switzerland with those of the Bernese Oberland.

In any event there is not as much money in all of Boca Grande as Victor and Bianca and Antonio and Isabel and Elena accuse me of having secreted in Switzerland.

Hollywood, where she traveled to bone up on dance classes and shoot the interior scenes, Audrey and Ferrer rented a small house in Malibu owned by director Anatole Litvak and furnished it with candlesticks, cachepots, silver framed photos, and blue glass vases from Switzerland.

SWITZERLAND by Jacques Casanova de Seingalt MEMOIRS OF JACQUES CASANOVA de SEINGALT 1725-1798 THE ETERNAL QUEST, Volume 3e--WITH VOLTAIRE THE RARE UNABRIDGED LONDON EDITION OF 1894 TRANSLATED BY ARTHUR MACHEN TO WHICH HAS BEEN ADDED THE CHAPTERS DISCOVERED BY ARTHUR SYMONS.

WITH VOLTAIRE by Jacques Casanova de Seingalt MEMOIRS OF JACQUES CASANOVA de SEINGALT 1725-1798 ADVENTURES IN THE SOUTH, Volume 4a--DEPART SWITZERLAND THE RARE UNABRIDGED LONDON EDITION OF 1894 TRANSLATED BY ARTHUR MACHEN TO WHICH HAS BEEN ADDED THE CHAPTERS DISCOVERED BY ARTHUR SYMONS.

DEPART SWITZERLAND by Jacques Casanova de Seingalt MEMOIRS OF JACQUES CASANOVA de SEINGALT 1725-1798 ADVENTURES IN THE SOUTH, Volume 4b--RETURN TO ITALY THE RARE UNABRIDGED LONDON EDITION OF 1894 TRANSLATED BY ARTHUR MACHEN TO WHICH HAS BEEN ADDED THE CHAPTERS DISCOVERED BY ARTHUR SYMONS.

Above all, the minority groups felt that the Czechoslovak government had not honored the promises made by Masaryk and Benes to the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 to establish a cantonal system similar to that of Switzerland.

Board of Trade, in its reports on agencies and methods of dealing with unemployed in foreign countries, drew attention to the very considerable extension of Labour Exchanges in the last three years in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, and Belgium.

Regardless of how they have assembled themselves, they cannot grow and preserve enough of their mild, fiberless preserved ginger to satisfy the sweet tooths of Great Britain, West Germany, Holland, Switzerland, and Norway.

It was while studying the Old Testament at the University of Fribourg, in Switzerland, that I first paid any attention to the close relationship between David and Jonathan.

A braver man than Melchior de Willading did not dwell in all Switzerland, but he did not hear the gloomy predictions of the Genoese without shaking in every limb.