a military alliance of three-count intervals, uria and shvets, they resisted the attempts of the habsburgsrol over the saint-garde pass. and it was the shortest path from german lands to italy, in fact, the swiss union marked the emergence of a new state on the territory of the holy roman empire, but the name switzerland appeared only 25 years later, when the entire union began to be called by the name of the canton, shvets by the middle of the 14th century to it five more cantons joined, alfalfa, zurich zuk, glarus and bern, the association was a purely military canton, united only if there was a common enemy. the swiss union grew to 13 cantons and lasted until the end of the 18th century, then weakened and was captured by napoleonic france on august 1, 1914 , germany declared war on russia and our country entered the first world war, the first global armed conflict, in which most of the planet participated in addition to the huge number of victims led to the collapse immediately of the four empires of the russian austro-hungarian ottoman and german at the beginning of the war in russian