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4 unusual facts about Rauracian Republic


Rauracia

the Rauracian Republic, a short-lived (1792–1793) state that included parts of modern France and Switzerland around the Jura mountains

Rauracian Republic

The Raurici were related to the Helvetii, whose name was later bestowed on another French client state, the Helvetic Republic.

Administrative frontiers changed more than once in the ensuring two decades, but when the war finally came to an end, the territory of Mont-Terrible, previously if briefly the Rauracian Republic, was divided by the victorious powers at the Congress of Vienna between the cantons of Bern and Basel.

This was achieved on 23 March 1793 with the creation of the French Département of Mont-Terrible which had its capital at Porrentruy.


Frederick II Eugene, Duke of Württemberg

After serving with Frederick the Great during the Seven Years' War, he lived at and managed his family's exclave of Montbéliard, originally inherited by marriage in 1397, until it was taken over by the short-lived Rauracian Republic in 1792 and then annexed by the French Republic in 1793.


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