History & Science

(Old Swiss Confederacy) Federal charter of 1291.

The Old Swiss Confederacy was an alliance among the valley communities of the central Alps. The Confederacy facilitated management of common interests (free trade) and ensured peace on the important mountain trade routes. The Federal Charter of 1291 agreed between the rural communes of Uri, Schwyz, and Nidwalden is considered the confederacy’s founding document, even though similar alliances are likely to have existed decades earlier. - enWikipedia