switzerland

Afghanistan and Switzerland are geographically very similar. Both very mountainous which make it very hard to invade. Both are strategically located in important routes. Switzerland is located between the powerfull countries in mainland Western Europe Germany, France, Italy. Afghanistan is...

I'm talking about whether modern-day Switzerland was suddenly transported back in time to the ages of the Roman Empire. How would this affect history or the Roman Empire? I don't care if you all edit the time where Switzerland is put back into, as I put 0 AD as a placeholder.

What would Swiss politics be like if the Concordance System of government never emerged? The Federal Council would be merely elected by a few parties with a bare majority, like governments in the rest of Europe. When would the PoD have to be? What would the impact be on Swiss politics throughout...

Art was created by u/ElectricSquid7 on Reddit What if during the 18th or 19th Century Switzerland unified Italy into the Italian Confederation?

Like many post-colonial states, Lebanon's current borders are fairly... arbitrary. While it was based around a homeland for the Maronites created by the Ottoman Empire, the French mandatory colony had its borders expanded, incorporating large Muslim and Druze populations. To prevent interfaith...

I've been thinking of what the impact of a red Germany, either post-WW1 or post-WW2, would have on Switzerland. IOTL Switzerland maintained its neutrality despite being totally surrounded by fascist powers, but I imagine that communism would be viewed more as ideologically threatening than...

I've read a lot of threads about Operation Tannenbaum (the invasion of Switzerland by Nazi Germany) on this site, but so far I haven't found a satisfactory answer to my question: how long can Swiss resistance last? Let's assume a typical Axis Victory scenario - the Nazis manage a victory...

Let's say Britain gets its way during the Neuchâtel crisis, and a compromise is reached between Prussia and the Great Powers, Frederick William IV abdicates the throne of the Principality of Neuchâtel (today a Swiss canton) to a Protestant Hohenzollern relative not directly in line to the throne...

After trawling through the board, I have found threads on "No Switzerland", "Partitioned Switzerland", "Mega Switzerland" etc., but I can't seem to find any discussion on what happens to Switzerland without the French Revolution or Napoleon. So, assuming it remains independent, and doesn't get...

By if they got involved, I mean how they would affect the world if they declared war with or on the Tripartite Pact, or Germany, Italy, and Japan. I would think that if they joined in on the Axis powers' side, then the world would have been different. I would say the PoD is around 1933, where...

Before the Lebanese Civil War, Lebanon was often referred to as "the Switzerland of the Middle East". This was due in large part to how multicultural the country was and still is, with 18 recognized religious sects. In order to keep the different faiths happy, Lebanon adopted confessionalism and...

I was actually thinking of this recently about Switzerland expanding its borders and these would be the territories that would be included in Switzerland -Lorraine – The ruler of Lorraine sells Lorraine to the Swiss before it gets extinct in the male line or marries to the Habsburgs -Franche...

I was thinking about this because it seems that Northern Italy has certain groups that want unification with Switzerland, I was wondering if Lombardy/Duchy of Milan can go to Switzerland. @isabella

Is unification of Venice and Switzerland even possible?

Most people think of Switzerland's population as a mixture of French, Germans, and Italians. However, there's another Swiss ethnic group that often gets overlooked: the Romansh, a Romance ethnic group that makes up less than 1% of the Swiss population. Your challenge is to have the Romansh be...

An exchange in a thread discussing constitutional reform in the United States during the 1860s go me thinking about all of the myriad events in Swiss history during the nineteenth century, and the numerous ways in which things may have progressed differently. The country began the century as...

This might be an idea that's been floated before, but what might have happened if Switzerland as we know it today had not held together (either the Confederacy is never founded or it collapses due to infighting between the cantons)? Would the different cantons be absorbed into neighbouring...

Is it possible to have a peaceful partition of Switzerland after 1900, with the Italian/Romansh areas going to Italy, the French areas to France and German to Germany (or Austria, if its somehow easier)?

Switzerland is generally thought of as having three ethnic groups: the French, the Italians, and the Germans. While these are the three main ones, there are other ethnicities in Switzerland as well. One of these is the Romansh. Despite being the Romansh language being one of Switzerland's four...

The Zähringen dynasty was a noble house active between the 11th and early 13th centuries in the feudal political scene of Swabia within the Holy Roman Empire. They held lands spanning all across modern Switzerland and the southern half of the German state of Baden-Wurttemberg. They seemed to be...