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Helvetia. Helvetia (/ hɛlˈviːʃə /) [1] is a national personification of Switzerland, officially Confoederatio Helvetica, the Swiss Confederation. The allegory is typically pictured in a flowing clothing, with a spear and a shield emblazoned with the Swiss flag, and commonly with braided hair and a wreath as a symbol of confederation.
Jun 20, 2018 · Swiss World Coins – Helvetia – Some Things (and Coins) Never Change. By Al Doyle. June 20, 2018. Swiss 1/2 franc and the 1 and 2 franc. All three coins have carried the same design – the ...
Oct 21, 2022 · Helvécia is a former German-Swiss colony originally named Leopoldina and whose current name keeps the memory of one of its plantations named by a Swiss settler. Founded in 1818, Helvecia developed with the cultivation of coffee of which it produced more than 90% for the state of Bahia until it became one of the most important coffee exporters ...
Helvécia was founded in 1892 by Swiss-born teacher Heinrich Eduard Weber (Wéber Ede in Hungarian). After the great phylloxera epidemic that had destroyed much of the historical vineyard plantings in the 1870s, sandy soils of the Great Plains became much more valuable for grape cultivation than before. Helvécia was settled by 501 vineyard ...
Mar 4, 2017 · Helvécia, Bahia, Brazil. December 2015. ©Dom Smaz. Helvécia, a small village in the state of Bahia, northeastern Brazil, is what remains of two vast farms founded by a Swiss immigrant. Helvetia ...
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Accessed 21 September 2024. Helvetii, a Celtic people who, under pressure from Germanic peoples in the 2nd century bc, migrated from southern Germany into what is now northern Switzerland. In 61 bc, still pressed upon by the Germans, the Helvetii under Orgetorix decided to migrate to western Gaul; more than 250,000 of them.
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Helvécia, a Black village community in the southern part of the Brazilian state of Bahia, owes its name to the plantation from which it originated. It was founded in 1818 by Swiss and German settlers, and the coffee grown on its vast estates brought them great wealth. This would not have been possible without exploitation: in the mid-19th century, for every 200 white settlers, there were ...
