Loose confederation of Alpine cantons that defied Habsburg rule; grew from 3 to 13 cantons by 1513, de facto independent from 1499, basis of modern Switzerland.
Dissolved following the French invasion; on 12 April 1798, 121 cantonal deputies proclaimed the Helvetic Republic, replacing the Old Swiss Confederacy after French troops occupied Bern on 5 March 1798 and overran Switzerland.
The atlas holds 8 border frames for Old Swiss Confederacy — the shape you scrub through changes in 1291 · 1392 · 1511 · 1565 · 1625 · 1675 · 1708 · 1749.
Standard English-language survey tracing Switzerland from the Old Confederacy's medieval origins to the present; Cambridge University Press (Cambridge Concise Histories)., Goodreads, and Amazon.
Schiller's play dramatizes the legendary founding of the Swiss Confederacy against Habsburg rule, the nation's defining origin story.
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