Roman commander Julius Cesar defeated the Helvetians in 58 B.C. and made Helvetia a Roman territory with fortified borders. |
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Examples of this type include Britannia, Germania, Hibernia, Helvetia and Polonia. |
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Helvetia appears as a national personification of the Swiss confederacy in the 17th century with a 1672 play by Johann Caspar Weissenbach. |
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Switzerland adopts the country's Latin short name Helvetia on coins and stamps since there is no room to use all of the nation's four official languages. |
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Switzerland adopts the country's Latin short name Helvetia on coins and stamps, since there is no room to use all of the nation's four official languages. |
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The master of New Helvetia himself was hearty and up-minded as ever. |
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