States and territories disestablished in 1798

territories mostly in the Appenine Peninsula under the sovereign direct rule of the pope between 756–1870

confederation of cantons (1291-1798)

abolished monastery and collegiate district with cathedral in the city of St. Gallen, Switzerland

Unterwalden, translated from the Latin inter silvas ("between the forests"), is the old name of a forest-canton of the Old Swiss Confederacy in central Switzerland, south of Lake Lucerne, consisting of two valleys or Talschaften, now two separate Swiss cantons (or two half-cantons), Obwalden and Nidwalden.

Gersau is a municipality and district in the canton of Schwyz in Switzerland, on the shores of Lake Lucerne. Gersau was for many centuries an independent micro-state in permanent alliance with the Swiss Confederation.

former country (1797–1798)

short-lived revolutionary state in 1798

alliance formed in 1471

municipality

history of the island of Malta under the rule of the Knights of St. John

County of Burgundy, France

former city-state, which is today entirely part of France

historical county

feudal dominion of the Netherlands (1528–1798)

Swiss county from 11th to 18th century

historical state (county from ca. 1160, principality from 1702–1801)

Mer-Égée (; French for "Aegean Sea") was one of three short-lived French departments of Greece. It came into existence after Napoleon's conquest in 1797 of the Republic of Venice, when Venetian Greek possessions such as the Ionian Islands fell to the French Directory.

joint administrative districts in the Old Swiss Confederacy

condominium of the Old Swiss Confederacy

Ithaque (; French for "Ithaca") was one of three short-lived French departments of Greece.

Benedictine Abbey in Engelberg in the Canton of Obwalden, Switzerland

former country in Europe

thumb|Forstegg castle (c. 1630) The Lordship of Sax-Forstegg was a territory in the Alpine Rhine Valley, including the settlements of Sennwald and Altstätten, now part of the canton of St. Gallen, Switzerland. It was named for the baronial family of Sax and their castle Forstegg. It was created with the division of the old Lordship of Sax into Hohensax and Frischenberg in the late 14th century. In 1458, the lords of Sax-Forstegg entered a pact with the Swiss Confederacy. In addition, they were also citizens of St. Gallen from 1463, and citizens of Zürich from 1486.

type of diplomatic relationship in the Old Swiss Confederacy

historical region

Italian republic

state in Early Modern Switzerland