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A Greater (and reorganized) Switzerland

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I've been enjoying drawing these irredentist maps lately, so here's another one. Switzerland is expanded with Vorarlberg (Austria), parts of Savoy and Ain (France), Valtellina/Sondrio province (Italy), and Liechtenstein. Most of these territories have at some point in time either been claimed by Switzerland, or a serious local political movement existed seeking accession to the confederation. Valtellina was part of Switzerland until 1815.

While I was at it, I've also reorganized the main administrative divisions: abolishing the cantons (sacrilege, I know!) and merging them together into provinces; and where appropriate, splitting off parts along linguistic boundaries. Why, you ask? Just for the heck of it.
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The german speaking Pomatt Valey (in Italy left beside tessin) and the franch speaking Aosta Vally and the eschenental (Historische-Karte-CH-1416.jpg (1000×607) (stammler-genealogie.ch)) should be integrated into Switzerland