page_title: République des Sept-Dizains
hierarchical_section_title: République des Sept-Dizains
caption_attribution_description: English: Map of the Valais, detail of La Suisse divisée en ses treze cantons, ses alliez &amp; ses sujets / par le Sr. Sanson [Guillaume Sanson, 1633-1703] (1693). The hand-colourisation is from an unknown (later) date, c.f. alternative versions here and here.
context_page_description: The République des Sept-Dizains was a state in the Upper Valais, in what is now the Swiss canton of Valais, during the Early Modern period.
  The seven tithings, listed orographically, were Goms, Brig, Visp, Raron, Leuk, Siders, and Sion.
  The six districts of the Lower Valais were known as "banners". These were conquered over time and ruled as subject lands by the Republic. They only came to be referred to as dizains as they acceded to the Rhodanic Republic and the Swiss canton, during 1802–1815.
context_section_description: The  République des Sept-Dizains (German Republik der Sieben Zenden "Republic of the Seven Tithings") was a state in the Upper Valais, in what is now  the Swiss canton of Valais, during the Early Modern period.
  The seven tithings (dizains, Latin decumae), listed orographically, were Goms,  Brig, Visp,  Raron, Leuk, Siders, and Sion.
  The six districts of the Lower Valais were known as "banners" (vexilla). These were conquered over time and ruled as subject lands by the Republic. They  only came to be referred to as dizains  as they acceded to the Rhodanic Republic and the Swiss canton, during 1802–1815.
caption: Map of the Valais, detail from a 1693 map of the Swiss Confederacy and its associates by Guillaume Sanson.
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