Kappel — can mean:In Switzerland: * Kappel, Switzerland, a municipality of the canton of Solothurn * Kappel am Albis, a municipality of the canton of Zurich * Ebnat Kappel, a municipality of the canton of St. GallenIn Germany: * the Danish name for… … Wikipedia
Wars of Kappel — The wars of Kappel ( Kappelerkriege ) were two armed conflicts fought near Kappel am Albis between the Protestant and the Catholic cantons of the Old Swiss Confederacy during the reformation in Switzerland.*First war of Kappel (1529) *Second war… … Wikipedia
Kappel am Albis — Infobox Swiss town subject name = Kappel am Albis municipality name = Kappel am Albis municipality type = municipality imagepath coa = Kappel am Albis blazon.svg|pixel coa= languages = German canton = Zurich iso code region = CH ZH district =… … Wikipedia
European wars of religion — The name Wars of Religion has been given to a series of European wars of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, following the onset of the Protestant Reformation. Although sometimes unconnected, all of these wars were strongly influenced by… … Wikipedia
List of wars 1500–1799 — 1500–1599= *1499–1503 Third Turkish–Venetian War *1500–1504 Second Italian War *1500 1537 Muscovite Lithuanian Wars *1508–1516 War of the League of Cambrai *1509 First Portuguese–Turkish War *1509–1512 Ottoman Civil War *1514–1516 Ottoman–Safavid … Wikipedia
Reformation in Switzerland — The Protestant Reformation in Switzerland was promoted initially by Huldrych Zwingli, who gained the support of the magistrate (Mark Reust) and population of Zürich in the 1520s. It led to significant changes in civil life and state matters in… … Wikipedia
Switzerland — /swit seuhr leuhnd/, n. a republic in central Europe. 7,248,984; 15,944 sq. mi. (41,294 sq. km). Cap.: Bern. French, Suisse. German, Schweiz. Italian, Svizzera. Latin, Helvetia. * * * Switzerland Introduction Switzerland Background: Switzerland s … Universalium
Zwingli, Huldrych — born Jan. 1, 1484, Wildhaus in the Toggenburg, Sankt Gallen, Switz. died Oct. 11, 1531, near Kappel Major reformer in the Protestant Reformation in Switzerland. Educated in Vienna and Basel, he was ordained a priest in 1506. An admirer of Erasmus … Universalium
Schwyz — /shveets/, n. 1. a canton in central Switzerland, bordering on the Lake of Lucerne. 92,400; 350 sq. mi. (900 sq. km). 2. a city in and the capital of this canton, in the W part. 12,100. * * * ▪ Switzerland capital of Schwyz canton, central… … Universalium
Oecolampadius, Johann — ▪ German humanist German Johannes Huszgen born 1482, Weinsberg, Württemberg [now in Germany] died Nov. 23, 1531, Basel, Switz. German humanist, preacher, and patristic scholar who, as a close friend of the Swiss Reformer Huldrych Zwingli … Universalium