This inaugural confederation grew through a long series of accessions to modern Switzerland.

The directory system of government was also used in several French client republics and modern Switzerland; see directorial system.

The conflict took place mostly in southern, western and central areas of modern Germany but also affected areas in neighboring modern Switzerland and Austria.

The traditional ethnic composition of the territories of modern Switzerland includes the following components:

The other three tribes had been invaders on the upper Rhine, closer to modern Switzerland.

This Linear Band Ceramic settlement dates to about 6000BC and is the first long-term, farming community in the borders of modern Switzerland.

This alliance is considered the beginning of the Swiss Confederation and modern Switzerland.

For the time before 1291, this article summarizes events taking place on the territory of modern Switzerland.

The species name refers to the ancient region of Raetia, which includes modern Switzerland.

Rachilidis was a Benedictine hermitess, who lived some time in the 10th century, in what today is modern Switzerland.