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still nominally part of the Holy Roman Empire until 1648 when the Treaty of Westphalia ended the Thirty Years' War. The Swiss Reformation divided the confederates into Reformed and Catholic parties, resulting in internal conflict from the 16th to the 18th centuries; as a result, the federal diet [[Tagsatzung]] was often paralysed by hostility between the factions. The Swiss Confederacy fell to a French invasion

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