Sentence examples for separate cantons from inspiring English sources

These new federal codes superseded the earlier codes of the separate cantons (which had generally been patterned after the Austrian or the French model).

It is part of Rojava, the de facto independent Kurdish state-let where several million Kurds live in three separate cantons on the Turkish border.

In particular, he was worried about the division of a new Palestinian state into three separate cantons, and about the exact splitting of sovereignty in East Jerusalem.

The West Bank, which according to the Clinton proposal would serve as the main portion of the Palestinian state, would be divided into "three separate cantons" split by "Jewish only and Arab only roads," according to the paper.

In order to keep the Bosnian-Croat Federation and 10 separate cantons (they were apparently aspiring to Switzerland when they picked the term) and a separate government for the small city of Brcko that nobody could agree on, the pact created 14 separate governments.

That country has a nominal central government and a national army, but almost all the power is lodged in 26 separate cantons.

In 1798 Zug's inhabitants opposed the French Revolutionary forces, and it formed one of the districts of the huge canton of Waldstätten in the Helvetic Republic until 1803, when it became a separate canton again.

The scenic mountain separates the cantons of Bern and Valais and is in the Bernese Alps, two other peaks of which (the Finsteraarhorn [14,022 feet] and the Aletschhorn [13,763 feet]) surpass it in height.

Each province is divided into cantones (cantons), and each canton is divided into distritos (districts).

For now, Turkey's role will continue to be instrumental, its aim – to keep two Kurdish cantons separated by a 140km (90-mile) gap, in which Arab groups call the shots – now within reach.

These settlements and the swathes of territories connecting them to each other and to Israel divide the Palestinian-controlled territory into 43 noncontiguous cantons separated by Israeli checkpoints, thereby making the creation of a viable Palestinian state virtually impossible.