Canton of Raetia

Infobox Former Subdivision
native_name = "Kanton Rätien" (de)
"Cantone Raetia" (it)
conventional_long_name = Canton of Raetia
common_name = Raetia|
continent = Europe
region = Alps
country = Switzerland
subdivision = Canton
nation = Helvetic Republic
status_text = Canton of the Helvetic Republic|
year_start = 1798
year_end = 1803|
event_pre = Cisalpine Rep. established
date_pre = June 29 1797
event_start = Chiavenna, Valtellina and
Bormio annexed to
Cisalpine Republic
date_start =

October 10 1797
event1 = Helv. Rep.
date_event1 = April 12, 1798
event2 = Canton established
date_event2 = April 21, 1799
event_end = Helv. Rep.

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image_map_caption = The Helvetic Republic, as at the constitution of 12 April 1798, showing the canton of Raetia in dark pink at the rightmost extreme. The grey hatched area to Raetia's south is Chiavenna, Valtellina and Bormio, now the Italian province of Sondrio, annexed to the Cisalpine Republic in 1797.|
capital = Chur
languages = German, Italian, Rumansh

Raetia was the name of a canton of the Helvetic Republic from 1798 to 1803, corresponding to modern Graubünden and composed of the Free State of the Three Leagues. Until 1799, the canton was administered by the central government of the Helvetic Republic.

The districts of Chiavenna, Valtellina and Bormio, previously dependencies of the Leagues, were never a part of the canton, having permanently been detached from the Leagues after Revolutionary France fomented revolt there, leading them to be annexed to the Cisalpine Republic on October 10 1797. The districts subsequently joined the Austrian client kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia after the Congress of Vienna and eventually become the Italian province of Sondrio. The town of Campione was detached from the Landvogtei of Lugano at the same time, leading to its current position as an Italian enclave within Ticino.

With the Napoleonic Act of Mediation in 1803, the canton was reestablished as Graubünden, finally incorporating the Three Leagues into a decentralised, federal Switzerland.

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