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Unterwalden
Unterwalden
(
Latinized
as
Sylvania
, later also
Subsylvania
as opposed to
Supersylvania
) is the old name of a
forest-canton
of the
Old Swiss Confederacy
in
central Switzerland
, south of
Lake Lucerne
, consisting of two valleys or
Talschaften
, now organized as two
half-cantons
, an upper part,
Obwalden
, and a lower part,
Nidwalden
.
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