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of Schwyz), and later to the entire Old Swiss Confederacy. Other cantons tended to resent this in the 15th century, but after 1499 the term Schwyzer was widely self-adopted, out of spite so to speak, since it had been employed as a term of abuse by the Swabian side during the Swabian War. [[Eidgenossenschaft]] and Schwytzerland (the origin of the English name Switzerland) could be used interchangeably as country names in the 16th century.

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