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Swiss Republic

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The Swiss Republic may refer to:

  • Switzerland, a country in central Europe, being a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons
  • Old Swiss Confederacy (c. 1300–1798), a loose confederation of largely independent small states called cantons, the precursor of modern-day Switzerland
  • Helvetic Republic (1798–1803), a constitutional arrangement imposed on the Swiss cantons by French military might