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Confoederatio Helvetica
Switzerland
Confoederatio Helvetica
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Switzerland [SEP] Etymology
The data code for Switzerland, CH, is derived from Latin "Confoederatio Helvetica" (). The toponym "Schwyz" itself was first attested in 972, as Old High German ', ultimately perhaps related to ' ‘to burn' (cf. Old Norse "svíða" ‘to singe, burn'), referring to the area of forest that was burned and cleared to build. The name was extended to the area dominated by the canton, and after the Swabian War of 1499 gradually came to be used for the entire Confederation. The Swiss German name of the country, ', is homophonous to that of the canton and the settlement, but distinguished by the use of the definite article (' for the Confederation, but simply "" for the canton and the town).