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Switzerland, formally the Confederation of Helvetia, is composed of twenty six cantons which function as states, counties and provinces. There are four national languages, French, German, Italian and Svitzerdeutch (many spellings) which is a variant on archaic German (trans. Swiss-deutch).

Swiss (or CH) territories have been criss-crossed by invaders; i.e. Carthaginians, Romans. The cantons have been formed, for the most part along ethnic lines. There has never been a formal military or non-military invasion or colonization of Switzerland by the French or any other nation.

To this day, while the Swiss government maintains a formidable, although neutral, military, it's only military projection beyond national borders is to provide Swiss soldiers (trained military) to the Vatican State as military and security protection. The Swiss guard were originally selected by the Vatican on the basis of Switzerland's centuries long tradition of neutrality

The only French invasion of Switzerland is cultural, and that for the most part limited to French cheeses, which the Swiss accept, and French films and wines which the Swiss do not.

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Bryan Zetlen

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