Canton of Léman

The canton of Geneva was a canton under the Helvetic Republic from 1798-1803, who insisted on the territory of modern canton of Vaud. As a former peasant lands of the Bern canton of Vaud, after just four months ending Lemanic independence as the Republic of the Helvetic Republic. Now called Canton Geneva, he included not only the earlier Bernese Vaud but also the former Common Lordships Echallens, Orbe and Grandson. The districts Payerne and Avenches belonged until 1803 to the Canton of Fribourg. The canton of Vaud was created in 1803 by the Act of Mediation from the canton of Léman.

The Canton of Geneva in the spring of 1798 withdrew all Bernese in goods in the Vaud region for a short time, the right to dispose of their property. For the exit to another canton a passport was required to be emigrants were given only after a civil oath was sworn on the Helvetic order. The same provision was true even for senators and Great Councils, when they went to their meetings in the Aargau.

• Historical Swiss Canton
• Helvetic
• History ( canton of Vaud )
• History of Switzerland in the early modern period
• Swiss History (19th century)
• 1798
• 1790
• 1800