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Swiss Confederation   /swɪs kənfˌɛdərˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Swiss Confederation

noun
1.
A landlocked federal republic in central Europe.  Synonyms: Schweiz, Suisse, Svizzera, Switzerland.





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"Swiss Confederation" Quotes from Famous Books



... tongue of the nation should be at least exceptional. But there is one nation in Europe, one which has a full right to be called a nation in a political sense, which has been formed on the directly opposite principle. The Swiss Confederation has been formed by the union of certain detached fragments of the German, Italian, and Burgundian nations. It may indeed be said that the process has been in some sort a process of adoption, that the Italian and Burgundian elements have been ...
— Prose Masterpieces from Modern Essayists • James Anthony Froude, Edward A. Freeman, William Ewart Gladstone, John Henry Newman and Leslie Steph
... Thames make any difference. The districts of the Aetolian, and the towns of the Achaean, League were in effect neighbours. The Germanic Confederation was composed of kingdoms and principalities that are conterminous. The American Union is geographically solid. So are the cantons of the Swiss Confederation. The nine millions of square miles over which the British flag waves are dispersed over the whole surface of the globe. The fact that this consideration is so trite and obvious does not prevent it from being an essential element in the argument. Mr. Seeley's precedents ...
— Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 3 of 3) - Essay 9: The Expansion of England • John Morley


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