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Tellgovie
Tellgovie (in German language, German ''Tellgau'', " the land of William Tell") is the name of one of the three Switzerland during the Napoleonic era, Swiss republics imagined in 1798. It was supposed to bring together the Canton of Waldstätten and the Three Leagues.
On 16 March 1798, eleven days after occupying Bern, Guillaume Brune, General Brune proclaimed the partition of Switzerland into three states:
*Rhodanic Republic or ''Rhodania'', a unitary republic comprising Vaud, Valais, Ticino and Canton of Fribourg, Fribourg, with Lausanne as its capital;
*the Swiss Republic or Helvetia, a unitary republic with the capital at Aarau;
*the Tellian Republic or Tellgovie, a federal republic comprising the small cantons of central Switzerland and the Grisons, with Schwyz as its capital.
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Rhodanic Republic
The Rhodanic Republic, officially the Republic of Valais ( French: ''République du Valais''; German: ''Republik Wallis'') or Vallais, was a sister republic of France that existed between 1802 and 1810 in the French-speaking part of Switzerland, during the Napoleonic Wars, in the territory corresponding with the modern Swiss canton of Valais. History A Rhodanic Republic had already been envisaged in March 1798 by General Guillaume Brune, commander of the French troops in Switzerland, as one of three successor republics of the Old Swiss Confederacy (the other two being Tellgovie and the Helvetic). Brune's ''République rhodanique'' would have incorporated the present-day cantons of Vaud, Valais, Ticino, Fribourg and part of Bern ( Oberland) with Lausanne as its capital. The canton was to be divided into 17 administrative districts, each with a sous-prefet. However, this idea was put aside. In 1798, when the troops of the French Republic invaded the Swiss Confederacy, the French ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |