helvetic

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{a} relating to the Swiss or Switzerland, anciently called Helvetia
Of or pertaining to the Helvetii, the ancient inhabitant of the Alps, now Switzerland, or to the modern states and inhabitant of the Alpine regions; as, the Helvetic confederacy; Helvetic states
{s} relating or pertaining to Switzerland; relating to or of Helvetia; relating to or of Helvetii who inhabited the Swiss Alps

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Helvetic Republic
Republic founded in March 1798, constituting the greater part of Switzerland, after it had been conquered by France in the French Revolutionary Wars. The government was patterned after that of the Directory in France. Delegates called on Napoleon to mediate in factional disputes, and in 1803 he substituted a new Swiss Confederation for the republic, forcing it into close association with France