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  1. Swiss nobility

    Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a collection of semi-autonomous cantons. As membership of the confederation has fluctuated throughout history, each of these cantons has its own unique history and nobility. Typically, each canton had its own constitution, currency, jurisdiction, habits, customs, history, and nobility. In the Middle Ages, various cantons had families with only local and, in the broad scheme of things, insignificant lands, whereas other cantons had ennobled families abroad. In Switzerland there were many families of dynasties who were members of the Holy Roman Empire. Other cantons had rulers from the House of Savoy, or from the ruling dynasty of the Kingdom of Burgundy. This diversity prevented the birth of a state with monarchical central authority. As a general rule, Swiss nobility since the 14th century can be divided into three categories: 1. nobility acquired by inheritance, under the terms of family right; 2. Wikipedia

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    Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a collection of semi-autonomous cantons. As membership of the confederation has fluctuated throughout history, each of these cantons has its own unique history and nobility. Typically, each canton had its own constitution, currency, jurisdiction, habits, customs, history, and nobility.
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    Since 1848, the Swiss Confederation has been a federal republic of relatively autonomous cantons, some of which have a history of federation that goes back more than 700 years, putting them among the world's oldest surviving republics.. The early history of the region is tied to that of Alpine culture.Switzerland was inhabited by the Helvetii, and it came under Roman rule in the 1st century BC.
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    Map of Europe showing current monarchies (red) and republics (blue) In the European history, monarchy was the prevalent form of government throughout the Middle Ages, only occasionally competing with communalism, notably in the case of the maritime republics and the Swiss Confederacy.. In the early modern period (1500 - 1800 CE), Republicanism became more prevalent, but monarchy still remained ...
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    Some of the extant sovereign monarchies have lines of succession that go back to the medieval period or antiquity: The Kings of Cambodia claim descent from Queen Soma (1st century), although the historiographical record is interrupted in the "Post-Angkor Period" (15th/16th centuries).A real unified Kingdom of Cambodia first came to existence in 802. . The Monarchy in Cambodia was abolished ...
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    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.Switzerland is geographically divided among the Swiss Plateau, the Alps and the Jura; the Alps occupy the greater part of the territory, whereas most of ...
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    Map of the territorial evolution of the Old Swiss Confederacy (1291-1798).. The territorial evolution of Switzerland occurred primarily with the acquisition of territory by the historical cantons of the Old Swiss Confederacy and its close associates.This gradual expansion took place in two phases, the growth from the medieval Founding Cantons to the "Eight Cantons" during 1332-1353, and ...
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    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.. It formed at the end of the 13th century, from a nucleus in what is now Central Switzerland, expanding to include the cities ...
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    The rise of Switzerland as a federal state began on 12 September 1848, with the creation of a federal constitution in response to a 27-day civil war, the Sonderbundskrieg.The constitution, which was heavily influenced by the United States Constitution and the ideas of the French Revolution, was modified several times during the following decades and wholly replaced in 1999.
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    Following a 27-day civil war in Switzerland, the Sonderbundskrieg, the Swiss Federal Constitution was passed on 12 September 1848. The constitution was heavily influenced by the US Constitution and the ideas of the French Revolution.The constitution establishes the Swiss Confederation, governed by a comparatively strong federal government, instead the model of a confederation of independent ...
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    Year Date Event 1436: 30 April: Death of Friedrich VII of Toggenburg, without an heir.Competing land claims in eastern Switzerland and western Austria led to the Old Zurich War. [7]1436: 8 June: Creation of the League of the Ten Jurisdictions in Graubünden after the extinction of the Counts of Toggenburg. [8]1440-1450: Old Zurich War between Zurich and the Habsburgs against the remainder of ...
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