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Geneva is a global city, a financial centre, and a worldwide centre for diplomacy due to the presence of numerous international organizations, including the headquarters of many agencies of the United Nations [15] and the ICRC and IFRC of the Red Cross. [16] In the aftermath of World War I, it hosted the League of Nations.
The Canton of Geneva, whose official name is the Republic and Canton of Geneva, is the successor of the Republic of Geneva. [6]This article focuses on the history of the canton, which begins in 1815, and some of the context leading to modern borders and events after that date.
Geneva first appears in history as an Allobrogian border town, fortified against the Celtic Helvetii tribe, which the Roman Republic took in 121 BC.. In 58 BC, Caesar, Roman governor of Gaul, destroyed the Rhône bridge at Geneva and built a 19-mile earthwork from Lake Geneva to the Jura Mountains in order to block the migration of the Helvetii, who "attempted, sometimes by day, more often by ...
1541 - The Republic of Geneva and Genevan Consistory established. 1545 – 2 June: Divorce granted. [14] 1553 – 27 October: Michael Servetus executed for heresy. [7] 1559 – Collège de Genève founded. [12] 1560 – English-language Geneva Bible published. 1580 – Population: 17,330. [15] 1584 – "Geneva forms an alliance with the Swiss ...
The Republic of Genoa (Ligurian: Repúbrica de Zêna [ɾeˈpybɾika de ˈzeːna]; Italian: Repubblica di Genova; Latin: Res Publica Ianuensis) was a medieval and early modern maritime republic from the years 1099 to 1797 in Liguria on the northwestern Italian coast.
Arms of the families that had the Bourgeoisie of Geneva in 1792. The inhabitants of the seigneurie and the Republic of Geneva were divided into four orders of people: [1] the Citoyens, the Bourgeois, the Habitants, and the Natifs. The Citoyens and the Bourgeois formed the bourgeoisie and, thus the patrician class of the Republic.
This is a category of people from the Republic of Geneva (1541–1798 and 1813-1815). See also Category:People from Geneva. Subcategories.
It was formed in 1798, when the Republic of Geneva was annexed by the French Republic. Léman also included districts that were previously part of the departments of Mont-Blanc (northern Savoy) and Ain (the Pays de Gex). Its territory corresponded with the present Swiss canton of Geneva and parts of the present French departments of Ain and ...