Historical Dictionary of Switzerland

Also known as HLS, DHS, DSS, HDS.ch, eHDS, e-HDS

encyclopedia on the history of Switzerland

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Available in: German , French , Italian , Romansh
Owner: Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences
Url: hls-dhs-dss .ch (de/fr/it), e-lir .ch (rm)
Registration: No
Launched: 1998 ; 28 years ago ( 1998 )

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Official website: hls-dhs-dss.ch
Image: HLS Wortmarke mit grossen Abkürzungen.png

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entry in abbreviations table: HLS
title: Historische Lexikon der Schweiz

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The first three printed volumes, in German, French and Italian

The Historical Dictionary of Switzerland (Dictionnaire historique de la Suisse; abbr. DHS) is an encyclopedia on the history of Switzerland. It aims to present the history of Switzerland in the form of an encyclopaedia, published both on paper and on the internet, in three of the country's national languages: German, French and Italian. When it was completed at the end of 2014, the paper version contained around 36,000 articles divided into thirteen volumes. At the same time, a reduced edition of the dictionary has been published in Romansh under the title Lexicon istoric retic (LIR), and constitutes the first specialist dictionary in the Rhaeto-Romance, Switzerland.