Etymology
The English name of the Swiss mixtures with Switzer, obsolete term for the Swiss, which was used during the 16th to 19 century. The English adjective borrowed from Swiss French Suisse, also, in use since the 16 century. The name of Alemannic Schwiizer Switzer, Schwyz inhabitants and its area of origin attached to them, one of the core was Waldstätten chantún the Old Swiss Confederacy. The toponym was confirmed for the first time in 972, as Suittes Old High German, suedan related to end "to burn", which refers to the area of forest is cleared and burned build.The name was extended to most areas of Canton and after the 1499 Swabian war gradually came to be used for full Federal.
The
Swiss-German name of the country, is homophonous Schwiiz in Canton and
settlement, but differ in the use of the definite article (of the
Federal Schwiiz, only the canton and the city Schwiiz).
The introduction of the new Latin name Helvetica Confederatio gradually after the establishment of the federal government in 1848, harking back to Napoleon's Helvetic Republic, which appears on coins from 1879, recorded at the Federal Palace in 1902 and after 1948 used in the official seal. [18] It is derived from the name of the Helvetii, a Gallic tribe living on the Swiss plateau, the Roman advance. Helvetia emerging as a national personification of the Swiss Confederacy in the 17 century, a 1672 play by Johann Caspar Weissbach.
History
Switzerland existed as a state in its present form since the adoption of the Swiss constitution in 1848. The predecessors of the Swiss defense alliance founded in the late 13th Century (1291), forming a loose federation of states, which lasted for centuries.
Early History
The oldest traces of hominid Switzerland back about 150,000 years. The oldest known farming settlements in Switzerland, was found on Gächlingen, dated to about 5300 BC.
The earliest cultural tribes recognized in the members area of Hallstatt and La Tène culture, named after the archaeological site of La Tène on the north side of Lake NEUCHATEL. La Tène culture developed and flourished from the late Iron Age around 450 BC, possibly under the influence of Greek and Etruscan civilizations. One of the largest tribal groups in the Swiss region of the Helvetii. In 58 BC, at the Battle of Bibracte army of Julius Caesar defeated the Helvetii.In 15 BC Tiberius conquered, was destined to become the second Roman emperor and his brother, Drusus, the Alps, they integrate the Roman Empire. The area occupied by the Helvetii, the namesakes of late Helvetica Confoederatio first part of the Roman province of Gallia Belgica, and then at the Germania Superior Province, and the eastern part of modern Switzerland have been integrated into the Roman province of Raetia.
In the early Middle Ages, from the fourth century, was the Swiss modern western part of the Kings area Burgundians. The Alemanni settled the Swiss plateau in the fifth century and valleys in the Alps in the eighth century, forming Alemannia. Modern day Switzerland, therefore, was then divided between the kingdoms of Alemannia and Burgundy. The entire region, part of the Frankish expansion in the 6 century, after victory over the Alemanni Clovis I in 504 AD at Tolbiac, and later Frankish domination of the Burgundians.
Through the rest of the sixth, seventh and eight centuries, the Swiss regions continued under Frankish hegemony (Merovingian and Carolingian dynasties). But after its expansion under Charles the Great, was the Frankish Empire by Treaty were divided into 843The district was now divided into East and East Switzerland Francia Francia until they were reunited with the Empire Holy Rome around the year 1000.
The English name of the Swiss mixtures with Switzer, obsolete term for the Swiss, which was used during the 16th to 19 century. The English adjective borrowed from Swiss French Suisse, also, in use since the 16 century. The name of Alemannic Schwiizer Switzer, Schwyz inhabitants and its area of origin attached to them, one of the core was Waldstätten chantún the Old Swiss Confederacy. The toponym was confirmed for the first time in 972, as Suittes Old High German, suedan related to end "to burn", which refers to the area of forest is cleared and burned build.The name was extended to most areas of Canton and after the 1499 Swabian war gradually came to be used for full Federal.
The introduction of the new Latin name Helvetica Confederatio gradually after the establishment of the federal government in 1848, harking back to Napoleon's Helvetic Republic, which appears on coins from 1879, recorded at the Federal Palace in 1902 and after 1948 used in the official seal. [18] It is derived from the name of the Helvetii, a Gallic tribe living on the Swiss plateau, the Roman advance. Helvetia emerging as a national personification of the Swiss Confederacy in the 17 century, a 1672 play by Johann Caspar Weissbach.
History
Switzerland existed as a state in its present form since the adoption of the Swiss constitution in 1848. The predecessors of the Swiss defense alliance founded in the late 13th Century (1291), forming a loose federation of states, which lasted for centuries.
The oldest traces of hominid Switzerland back about 150,000 years. The oldest known farming settlements in Switzerland, was found on Gächlingen, dated to about 5300 BC.
The earliest cultural tribes recognized in the members area of Hallstatt and La Tène culture, named after the archaeological site of La Tène on the north side of Lake NEUCHATEL. La Tène culture developed and flourished from the late Iron Age around 450 BC, possibly under the influence of Greek and Etruscan civilizations. One of the largest tribal groups in the Swiss region of the Helvetii. In 58 BC, at the Battle of Bibracte army of Julius Caesar defeated the Helvetii.In 15 BC Tiberius conquered, was destined to become the second Roman emperor and his brother, Drusus, the Alps, they integrate the Roman Empire. The area occupied by the Helvetii, the namesakes of late Helvetica Confoederatio first part of the Roman province of Gallia Belgica, and then at the Germania Superior Province, and the eastern part of modern Switzerland have been integrated into the Roman province of Raetia.
In the early Middle Ages, from the fourth century, was the Swiss modern western part of the Kings area Burgundians. The Alemanni settled the Swiss plateau in the fifth century and valleys in the Alps in the eighth century, forming Alemannia. Modern day Switzerland, therefore, was then divided between the kingdoms of Alemannia and Burgundy. The entire region, part of the Frankish expansion in the 6 century, after victory over the Alemanni Clovis I in 504 AD at Tolbiac, and later Frankish domination of the Burgundians.
Through the rest of the sixth, seventh and eight centuries, the Swiss regions continued under Frankish hegemony (Merovingian and Carolingian dynasties). But after its expansion under Charles the Great, was the Frankish Empire by Treaty were divided into 843The district was now divided into East and East Switzerland Francia Francia until they were reunited with the Empire Holy Rome around the year 1000.
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