What is Canton of Glarus?
[[File:Wappen Glarus matt.svg|right|100px]] '''Glarus''' is a [[cantons of Switzerland|canton]] in east [[Switzerland]]. The capital is [[Glarus (city)|Glarus]]. In 2010, the 25 communes were merged to only three: Glarus, [[Glarus Nord]], and [[Glarus Süd]]. Officially, Glarus is a German-speaking canton; of the roughly 40.000 people, 83.6 percent are German-speaking, and 6.8 percent speak [[Italian language|Italian]]. According to a statistical survey done in 2000, 44% of the population are Protestant (including [[Jehovas Witnesses]], and the [[New Apostolic Church]]), 37.3% are Roman Catholic, 6.5% are Muslims, 6.5% are non-believers, 2.3% are either [[Eastern Orthodox Church|Eastern orthodox]] or [[Oriental Orthodoxy|Oriental orthodox]] and 3.7% belonged to other communities or did not say.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/portal/en/index/themen/01/05/blank/key/religionen.html|title=Swiss Federal office of Statistics: Religions}}</ref> == Geography == The canton of Glarus is dominated by the deep valley of the [[Linth]] River. Most of the area is mountainous. The total area of the canton of Glarus is [[1 E8 m²|685 km²]]. == History == [[File:Glarus Stadtkirche.jpg|thumb|left|Church of Glarus by [[Ferdinand Stadler]]]] The history of this canton is dominated by [[religion]]. The people who lived in the [[Linth]] Valley were converted to Christianity in the [[6th century]] by the [[Ireland|Irish]] monk [[Fridolin of Säckingen|Saint Fridolin]]. He is still in the coat of arms of the canton today. He started [[Säckingen Abbey]] near Basel. The area around [[Glarus (city)|Glarus]] was owned by the abbey starting in the 9th century. By [[1288]], the [[Habsburg]]s slowly took over all the abbey's rights. Then the people of Glarus joined the Swiss Confederation in [[1352]]. Between [[1506]] and [[1516]], the reformer [[Huldrych Zwingli]] was a priest in Glarus. By [[1564]], all of Zwingli's followers were eliminated<!-- killed? -->, but the Protestants and Catholics there still fought with each other