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Between the Alps and a Hard Place: Switzerland in World War II and the Rewriting of History (2000) excerpt and text search; Dawson, William Harbutt. Social Switzerland: Studies of Present-day Social Movements and Legislation (1897) 302 pp; with focus on social and economic history, poverty, labour online; Fahrni, Dieter. An Outline History of ...
Map of the Helvetic Republic (1798) Map of Switzerland in 1815 New cantons were added only in the modern period, during 1803–1815; this mostly concerned former subject territories now recognized as full cantons (such as Vaud, Ticino and Aargau), and the full integration of territories that had been more loosely allied to the Confederacy (such as Geneva, Valais and Grisons).
986: Norsemen settle Greenland and Bjarni Herjólfsson sights coast of North America, but doesn't land (see also Norse colonization of the Americas). c. 1000: Norse settle briefly in L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland. [4] c. 1450: Norse colony in Greenland dies out.
Celtic wooden statue from Eschenz, c. 10 BC Map of late Iron Age Switzerland on the eve of the Roman conquest, indicating tribal territories, large settlements and oppida The Swiss plateau lay in the western part of the Early Iron Age Hallstatt culture , [ 11 ] and it participated in the early La Tène culture (named for the type site at Lake ...
Abraham Alfonse Albert Gallatin (January 29, 1761 – August 12, 1849) was a Genevan-American politician, diplomat, ethnologist, and linguist.Often described as "America's Swiss Founding Father", [3] [4] he was a leading figure in the early years of the United States, helping shape the new republic's financial system and foreign policy.
Switzerland, [d] officially the Swiss Confederation, [e] is a landlocked country located in west-central Europe. [f] [13] It is bordered by Italy to the south, France to the west, Germany to the north, and Austria and Liechtenstein to the east.
A new constitution was issued establishing Switzerland as a federal state with a bicameral Federal Assembly. 1874: 19 April: The constitution was revised to establish free public education and the optional referendum, and to make it easier for Swiss citizens to move between cantons. [9] 1877: 19 June: The Aare flooded, causing significant ...
The Old Swiss Confederacy, also known as Switzerland or the Swiss Confederacy, [6] was a loose confederation of independent small states (cantons, German Orte or Stände [7]), initially within the Holy Roman Empire. It is the precursor of the modern state of Switzerland.