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src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Eidtgenoschafft_1550.jpg/300px-Eidtgenoschafft_1550.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="230" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Eidtgenoschafft_1550.jpg/450px-Eidtgenoschafft_1550.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Eidtgenoschafft_1550.jpg/600px-Eidtgenoschafft_1550.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3500" data-file-height="2683" /></a><figcaption>The 1550 <a href="/wiki/Map_of_Switzerland" class="mw-redirect" title="Map of Switzerland">map of Switzerland</a> by <a href="/wiki/Sebastian_M%C3%BCnster" title="Sebastian Münster">Sebastian Münster</a> has the title <i>Die Eydtgnoschafft oder das Schwytzerland mit den anstossenden Ländern</i>, treating the terms <i><a href="/wiki/Eidgenossenschaft" title="Eidgenossenschaft">Eidgenossenschaft</a></i> and <i>Switzerland</i> as synonyms; in addition, the territory of the Confederacy is labelled <i>Schweitz</i> in the map (while the settlement is labelled <i>Switz</i>).</figcaption></figure> <p>The English name of <i><a href="/wiki/Switzerland" title="Switzerland">Switzerland</a></i> is a compound containing <i>Switzer</i>, an obsolete term for the <a href="/wiki/Swiss_people" title="Swiss people">Swiss</a>, which was in use during the 16th to 19th centuries.<sup id="cite_ref-HLS_Schweiz_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HLS_Schweiz-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The English adjective <i>Swiss</i> is a loan from French <i><span title="French-language text"><i lang="fr">Suisse</i></span></i>, also in use since the 16th century. </p><p>The name <i>Switzer</i> is from the <a href="/wiki/Alemannic_German" title="Alemannic German">Alemannic</a> <i><span title="Alemannic German-language text"><i lang="gsw">Schwiizer</i></span></i>,<sup id="cite_ref-HLS_Schweiz_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HLS_Schweiz-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in origin an inhabitant of <i><a href="/wiki/Schwyz" title="Schwyz">Schwyz</a></i> and its <a href="/wiki/Canton_of_Schwyz" title="Canton of Schwyz">associated territory</a>, one of the Waldstätten cantons which formed the nucleus of the <a href="/wiki/Old_Swiss_Confederacy" title="Old Swiss Confederacy">Old Swiss Confederacy</a>. The name originates as an exonym, applied <i><a href="/wiki/Pars_pro_toto" title="Pars pro toto">pars pro toto</a></i> to the troops of the Confederacy. The Swiss themselves began to adopt the name for themselves after the <a href="/wiki/Swabian_War" title="Swabian War">Swabian War</a> of 1499, used alongside the term for "Confederates", <i><a href="/wiki/Eidgenosse" class="mw-redirect" title="Eidgenosse">Eidgenossen</a></i> ("oath-fellows"), used since the 14th century. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Swiss_German" title="Swiss German">Swiss German</a> name of the country is homophonous to that of the canton and the settlement, but distinguished by the use of the definite article (<i><span title="Alemannic German-language text"><i lang="gsw">d'Schwiiz</i></span></i> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[tʃviːts]</span> for the Confederation, but simply <i><span title="Alemannic German-language text"><i lang="gsw">Schwyz</i></span></i> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[ʃviːts]</span> for the canton and the town).<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Schwyz">Schwyz</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Name_of_Switzerland&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Schwyz"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Schwyz#Name" title="Schwyz">Schwyz § Name</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Swiss_Swedish_origin_legend" title="Swiss Swedish origin legend">Swiss Swedish origin legend</a></div> <p>The toponym <i>Schwyz</i> itself is first attested in 972, as <i>villa Suittes</i>. Its etymology is uncertain, it may be either derived from a <a href="/wiki/Germanic_name" title="Germanic name">Germanic name</a> in <i>*swiþ-</i> ‘strength’ or from either a Germanic (<i>*swint-</i>) or <a href="/wiki/Gaulish_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Gaulish language">Celtic</a> (<i>*sveit-</i>) word for "clearing".<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>note 1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The name is recorded as <i>Schwitz</i> in the 13th century, and in the 17th to 18th century often as <i>Schweitz</i>. The spelling of <i>y</i> for <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[iː]</span> originates as a ligature <i><a href="/wiki/IJ_(digraph)" title="IJ (digraph)">ij</a></i> in 15th-century handwriting. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Swiss_chronicles" class="mw-redirect" title="Swiss chronicles">Swiss chroniclers</a> of the 15th and 16th centuries present a legendary <a href="/wiki/Eponymous_founder" class="mw-redirect" title="Eponymous founder">eponymous founder</a>, one <i>Suit</i> (<i>Swit, Schwyt, Switer</i>), leader of a population migrating <a href="/wiki/Swiss_Swedish_origin_legend" title="Swiss Swedish origin legend">from Sweden</a> due to a famine. Suit is said to have defeated his brother <i>Scheijo</i> (or <i>Scheyg</i>) in single combat in a dispute over leadership of the new settlement. <a href="/wiki/Petermann_Etterlin" title="Petermann Etterlin">Petermann Etterlin</a> (fl. 1470s, printed 1507).<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>note 2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Use of <i>Switzer, Switenses, Swicenses</i> for troops raised by the Confederacy as a whole, as it were pars pro toto because of the prominence of Schwyz in the early history of the Confederacy, is in use as an exonym from the later 14th century. The development of the Standard German diphthong <i>ei</i> reflects this early adoption. 16th-century French spelling was variously <i>Soisses, Suysses, Souyces</i>, adopted as <i>Swiss</i> in English. Early Italian spellings include <i>Sviceri, Suyzeri</i>; the modern Italian form <i>Svizzeri</i> is already used by <a href="/wiki/Niccol%C3%B2_Machiavelli" title="Niccolò Machiavelli">Niccolò Machiavelli</a> in 1515. Use of <i>Schwytzerland</i> for the territory of the Confederacy (as opposed to just the territory of Schwyz) develops in the early 16th century, but <i>Schweiz</i> as an endonym enters wider usage only in the course of the 17th and 18th centuries, and then in competition with <i>Helvetia</i>. Johan Jakob Leu in his <i>Allgemeine Helvetische Eydgenössische oder Schweitzerische Lexicon</i> (20 vols., 1747–1765; viz. using the three alternative names alongside one another in the title of his work) criticized the use of "Schweiz" for the Confederacy as confusing, arguing it should properly only be used to refer to the territory of Schwyz. Only in the second half of the 19th century did <i>Schweiz</i> become the dominant or unmarked name for the country only after the <a href="/wiki/Switzerland_as_a_federal_state" title="Switzerland as a federal state">formation of the federal state</a> in 1848, and from this time was increasingly also used to refer to the state (officially called <i>Schweizerische Eidgenossenschaft</i> in the constitution of 1848).<sup id="cite_ref-HLS_Schweiz_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HLS_Schweiz-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Eidgenossenschaft">Eidgenossenschaft</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Name_of_Switzerland&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Eidgenossenschaft"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Eidgenossenschaft" title="Eidgenossenschaft">Eidgenossenschaft</a></div> <p>The original name for the Old Swiss Confederacy was <i>Eidgenossenschaft</i> "oath-fellowship", <i>Schwyz</i> being just one of the participating Lieus or <i>Orte</i> (see <i><a href="/wiki/Waldst%C3%A4tte" title="Waldstätte">Waldstätte</a></i>). The term has never fallen out of use when referring to the Swiss Confederacy (as opposed to the territory). <i>Eidgenossen</i> translates the Latin <i>conspirati</i> of the <a href="/wiki/Federal_Charter_of_1291" title="Federal Charter of 1291">Federal Charter of 1291</a>, and the German term <i>Eidgenossen</i> is used in the pact of 1351 between <a href="/wiki/Canton_of_Uri" title="Canton of Uri">Uri</a>, <a href="/wiki/Canton_of_Schwyz" title="Canton of Schwyz">Schwyz</a> and <a href="/wiki/Unterwalden" title="Unterwalden">Unterwalden</a> and the cities of <a href="/wiki/Lucerne" title="Lucerne">Lucerne</a> and <a href="/wiki/Z%C3%BCrich" class="mw-redirect" title="Zürich">Zürich</a>. </p><p>Attestation of the abstract noun <i>Eidgenossenschaft</i> is somewhat younger, recorded in the <i><a href="/wiki/Pfaffenbrief" title="Pfaffenbrief">Pfaffenbrief</a></i> of 1370 (as <i>unser Eydgnosschaft</i> "our oath-fellowship"). In the Holy Roman Empire, emperor <a href="/wiki/Charles_IV,_Holy_Roman_Emperor" title="Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor">Charles IV</a> outlawed any such <i>conjurationes, confederationes,</i> and <i>conspirationes</i> in his <a href="/wiki/Golden_Bull_of_1356" title="Golden Bull of 1356">Golden Bull of 1356</a>. </p><p>Albrecht von Bonstetten (1479) called the Swiss Confederacy <i>Superioris Germaniae Confoederatio</i>, i.e. "Confederation of <a href="/wiki/Germania_Superior" title="Germania Superior">Upper Germany</a>". This was translated into German in 1480 as <i>Obertütscheit Eidgnosschaft</i>. </p><p>In <a href="/wiki/Early_New_High_German" title="Early New High German">Early New High German</a>, the word <i>eidgnoßschaft</i> was often simplified to <i>eidgnoschaft</i>. In <a href="/wiki/Early_modern_Switzerland" title="Early modern Switzerland">early modern Swiss</a> usage, <i>Eidgenossenschaft</i> was used without geographic qualifier, but in the 16th century it was often the epithet <i>loblich</i> "praiseworthy", as <i>lobliche eidgnoschaft</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Helvetia">Helvetia</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Name_of_Switzerland&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Helvetia"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Helvetia" title="Helvetia">Helvetia</a></div> <p>The Old Swiss Confederacy of the <a href="/wiki/Early_Modern_Switzerland" class="mw-redirect" title="Early Modern Switzerland">early modern period</a> was often called <i>Helvetia</i> or <i>Republica Helvetiorum</i> ("Republic of the Helvetians") in learned <a href="/wiki/Humanist_Latin" class="mw-redirect" title="Humanist Latin">humanist Latin</a>. The Latin name is ultimately derived from the name of the <i><a href="/wiki/Helvetii" title="Helvetii">Helvetii</a></i>, the <a href="/wiki/Gaulish_tribe" class="mw-redirect" title="Gaulish tribe">Gaulish tribe</a> living on the <a href="/wiki/Swiss_plateau" class="mw-redirect" title="Swiss plateau">Swiss plateau</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Switzerland_in_the_Roman_era" title="Switzerland in the Roman era">Roman era</a>. The allegory <i><a href="/wiki/Helvetia" title="Helvetia">Helvetia</a></i> makes her appearance in 1672.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The official <a href="/wiki/Neo-Latin" title="Neo-Latin">Latin</a> name <i>Confoederatio Helvetica</i> was introduced gradually after the <a href="/wiki/Switzerland_as_a_federal_state" title="Switzerland as a federal state">formation of the federal state</a> in 1848. It appears on <a href="/wiki/Coins_of_the_Swiss_franc" title="Coins of the Swiss franc">coins of the Swiss franc</a> from 1879, and was inscribed on the <a href="/wiki/Federal_Palace_of_Switzerland" title="Federal Palace of Switzerland">Federal Palace</a> in 1902. It was used in the official seal from 1948. The abbreviation <i>CH</i> was first introduced in 1909, as <a href="/wiki/International_vehicle_registration_code" title="International vehicle registration code">international vehicle registration code</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and in 1974, it was assigned as <a href="/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-2" title="ISO 3166-1 alpha-2">ISO 3166-1 alpha-2</a> country code for Switzerland. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Name_of_Switzerland&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">A summary of the history of suggestions until 1970 is given in Viktor Weibel, “Suittes - Schwyz - Schweiz: Geschichte und Deutung des Namens Schwyz”, <i>Mitteilungen des historischen Vereins des Kantons Schwyz</i> 65 (1972). See also <i>Lexikon der schweizerischen Gemeindenamen</i>, Frauenfeld 2005, 819-20.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Etterlin's account is supposedly based on a "common Swiss chronicle" (<i>Gesta Suitensium</i>, <i>gemeine Schwyzerchronik</i> also reflected in the <a href="/wiki/White_Book_of_Sarnen" title="White Book of Sarnen">White Book of Sarnen</a> and later by <a href="/wiki/Aegidius_Tschudi" title="Aegidius Tschudi">Aegidius Tschudi</a> (<i>Die Geschichte der Ostfriesen, Swedier und andre, so mit jnen gereisset, vnd wie Switer dem Lande den Namen Swiz gegeben</i>). Etterlin presents the three <a href="/wiki/Waldst%C3%A4tte" title="Waldstätte">Waldstätte</a> as representing three different stocks or races, the people of Schwyz as the most recent immigrants (from Sweden), the people of Uri representing the original "<a href="/wiki/Goths" title="Goths">Goths</a> and <a href="/wiki/Huns" title="Huns">Huns</a>", and the people of Unterwalden representing "<a href="/wiki/Gallo-Roman" class="mw-redirect" title="Gallo-Roman">the Romans</a>". Vetter, <i>Ueber die Sage von der Herkunft der Schwyzer und Oberhasler aus Schweden und Friesland</i>, 1877, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/stream/ueberdiesagevond00vett#page/10/mode/2up">p. 10</a>.</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Name_of_Switzerland&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-HLS_Schweiz-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-HLS_Schweiz_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-HLS_Schweiz_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-HLS_Schweiz_1-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"> Georg Kreis: <i>Schweiz</i> in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.hls-dhs-dss.ch/textes/d/D9825.php"><span title="Schweiz in German">German</span></a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.hls-dhs-dss.ch/textes/f/F9825.php"><span title="Schweiz in French">French</span></a> and <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.hls-dhs-dss.ch/textes/i/I9825.php"><span title="Schweiz in Italian">Italian</span></a> in the online <i><a href="/wiki/Historical_Dictionary_of_Switzerland" title="Historical Dictionary of Switzerland">Historical Dictionary of Switzerland</a></i>, 2015-06-19.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFJosef_Wiget" class="citation web cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source">Josef Wiget. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160815131226/https://www.sz.ch/xml_1/internet/de/application/d2/d56/d756/f759.cfm">"Die Geschichte des Kanton Schwyz: Kurzer historischer Überblick"</a> (in German). Canton of Schwyz. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.sz.ch/xml_1/internet/de/application/d2/d56/d756/f759.cfm">the original</a> on 2016-08-15<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2016-07-10</span></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Die+Geschichte+des+Kanton+Schwyz%3A+Kurzer+historischer+%C3%9Cberblick&rft.pub=Canton+of+Schwyz&rft.au=Josef+Wiget&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sz.ch%2Fxml_1%2Finternet%2Fde%2Fapplication%2Fd2%2Fd56%2Fd756%2Ff759.cfm&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AName+of+Switzerland" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Grimm, <i><a href="/wiki/Deutsches_W%C3%B6rterbuch" title="Deutsches Wörterbuch">Deutsches Wörterbuch</a></i> s.v. 'Eidgenossenschaft', citing <a href="/wiki/Johann_Stumpf_(writer)" title="Johann Stumpf (writer)">Johannes Stumpf</a> (1550) and <a href="/wiki/Josias_Simler" class="mw-redirect" title="Josias Simler">Josias Simler</a> (1576, <i>von dem regiment loblicher eidgnoschaft zwei bücher</i>).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"> Georg Kreis: <i>Helvetia</i> in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.hls-dhs-dss.ch/textes/d/D16440.php"><span title="Helvetia in German">German</span></a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.hls-dhs-dss.ch/textes/f/F16440.php"><span title="Helvetia in French">French</span></a> and <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.hls-dhs-dss.ch/textes/i/I16440.php"><span title="Helvetia in Italian">Italian</span></a> in the online <i><a href="/wiki/Historical_Dictionary_of_Switzerland" title="Historical Dictionary of Switzerland">Historical Dictionary of Switzerland</a></i>, 13 October 2014.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"> Marco Marcacci: <i>Confoederatio helvetica</i> in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.hls-dhs-dss.ch/textes/d/D9827.php"><span title="Confoederatio helvetica in German">German</span></a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.hls-dhs-dss.ch/textes/f/F9827.php"><span title="Confoederatio helvetica in French">French</span></a> and <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.hls-dhs-dss.ch/textes/i/I9827.php"><span title="Confoederatio helvetica in Italian">Italian</span></a> in the online <i><a href="/wiki/Historical_Dictionary_of_Switzerland" title="Historical Dictionary of Switzerland">Historical Dictionary of Switzerland</a></i>, 28 March 2002.</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 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