Transalpine campaigns of the Old Swiss Confederacy
15/16th-century military campaigns by the Old Swiss Confederacy to expand south of the Alps / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The transalpine campaigns of the Old Swiss Confederacy (German: Ennetbirgische Feldzüge, "transmontane campaigns", as they are known in Swiss historiography) were military expeditions which resulted in the conquest of territories south of the Alps, corresponding more or less to the modern canton of Ticino, on the part of the Old Swiss Confederacy in the 15th and 16th centuries. These territories were known as ennetbirgische Vogteien or "transmontane bailiwicks".
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