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  1. Only showing results from history-switzerland.geschichte-schweiz.ch

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  2. history-switzerland.geschichte-schweiz.ch

    A Short History of Switzerland. Switzerland is a small country (41,285 km² = 15,940 square miles), but densely populated (7 million inhabitants, 170 per km² = 440 per sq.mi.), situated in the heart of western Europe. It shares much of its history and of its culture with its neighbours Germany, Austria, Italy and France.
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    Switzerland is a loose confederacy of 13 cities and small valley communities dominating the rest of the country. A few families control state affairs. Several rebellions put down by military force: repressed aspects of history in a country so proud of it's tradition of democracy. 1618-1648: 30 Years' War
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    Switzerland is a small country situated in the heart of Central Europe and shares a lot of it's history and of it's culture (four national languages spoken in different regions) with it's neighbours Germany, France, Italy and Austria. When does the history of Switzerland begin? The answer depends on the interpretation of the term Switzerland:
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    History of Switzerland Switzerland's Industrialisation. Switzerland was one of the first industrialized countries. The industralization of Switzerland began, as in Great Britain, with the production of textiles and expanded soon to the construction of machines, to food products and to chemicals and pharmaceuticals. The Textile Industry
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    Jesuit church and college, Lucerne : The Jesuit order, established in 1534 by the Spanish officer Ignatius of Loyola was the leading force in the catholic counter-reformation. In Switzerland, the Counter-Reformation was put forward by Carlo Borromeo (1538 - 1584), a Jesuit and archbishop of Milan. On Borromeo's initiative, Lucerne provided a building where the Jesuits established a college in ...
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    History of Switzerland Switzerland's Way towards. the Federal Constitution of 1848 The Restoration of 1815. After defeating Napoleon, European Kings and statesmen met at the Vienna Congress in Austria in 1815 in order to arrange peace conditions. All great powers were interested in Swiss neutrality and agreed on a common declaration of ...
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    History of Switzerland The Age of Romans. When the Celtic Helvetians attempted to move south from Switzerland to Southern France they were stopped by the Roman commander and subsequent emperor C. Julius Cesar in 58 B.C. They were forced to return to Switzerland. The Romans controlled Switzerland's territory until about A.D. 400.
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    Interestingly enough, the task of preaching the christian gospel to the Alamannen in northern Switzerland was not taken over by Romans or people from Constantinople, but rather by wandering Irish monks. One of them, Gallus, settled as a hermit near today's city of St Gallen (eastern Switzerland) early in the 7 th century. In 820 a monastery was ...
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    Literature and links on William Tell: Jean François Bergier: Guillaume Tell.Paris: Librairie Arthème Fayard, 1988 This book by the well known Swiss historian gives a broad description of the history of the Switzerland from the age of the romans to the the birth of the old Swiss confederacy and situates the legend of William Tell in the historic context.
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    History of Switzerland The Old Swiss Confederacy (1291-1515) The official date of birth of the Old Swiss Confederation is August, 1 st 1291. This date can be found on a document of alliance whose age of more than 700 years has been confirmed by radionuclear (C 14) analysis recently.It all began with a new transalpine trading route and with three small valleys in central Switzerland that had ...
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