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Municipalities of the canton of Uri

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 8, 2024
Entity authorityQ691436 ↗
Source-derived summary

There are 19 municipalities in the Canton of Uri in Switzerland.

Mergers of municipalities

The 19 municipalities of the Canton of Uri were mentioned in the cantonal constitution and any merger had to be approved by a cantonal referendum that would change the constitution accordingly. A referendum in 2013 approved with 57%, the removal of the names of the 19 municipalities from the constitution, thus allowing municipalities' mergers without the need of a cantonal referendum. The municipalities of Seedorf and Bauen were the first that voluntarily decided to merge.

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The public source identifies “Municipalities of the canton of Uri” as wikimedia list article. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Municipalities, canton and Wikimedia.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2013—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Municipalities, canton and Wikimedia providing the first useful test.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 8, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q691436. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2013.

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This entry incorporates text from “Municipalities of the canton of Uri” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.