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The German Swiss population’s roots go back to the Celtic tribe of Helvetti. These people were defeated by the Romans in 58 B.C. Because of that, Switzerland’s official name is “Confoederatio Helvetica”. Other Germanic tribes that reached Switzerland throughout the centuries were the Allemani and the Burgundians.

In the Swiss-Italian region of Switzerland, the Leponzi (Leventina), Brenni (Bieno), and Insubrii were the first known settlers in Ticino (Island of Brissago). Following the fall of the Roman Empire, Ticino was ruled by the Lombardic lords, monasteries, or the church, and then by the German rulers or lords, and then by the other Swiss cantons from the fifteenth century to the French Revolution. Due to fear of retaliation Ticino became a free republic and a canton of Switzerland in 1803 after being liberated from international dominance by France or Austria if the regions were incorporated into Napoleon's "Republica Cisalpina.”