The history of the country of Liechtenstein is divided into the following chapters:

• Introduction
• Raetia as a Roman province
• Emergence of counties in the Early Middle Ages
• Imperial immediacy and territorial lordship
• Repeated change of rulers
• Thirty Years War and witch persecutions
• Elevation to Imperial Principality
• From the Napoleonic Wars to sovereignty
• Absolutism and the revolutionary year 1848
• Economic liberation and constitutionalism
• First World War and fundamental reorientation
• Partnership with Switzerland
• Years of crisis
• Boom after the Second World War
• Increased international cooperation

Download
History (PDF, 131.84 KB)

View through the gate of the fortress ruins in Schellenberg