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Helvetia is the female national personification of Switzerland, officially Confœderatio Helvetica, the Swiss Confederation. The Goddess Helvetia or the Goddess Helvetica.
The allegory is typically pictured in a flowing gown, with a spear and a shield emblazoned with the Swiss flag, and commonly with braided hair, commonly with a wreath as a symbol of confederation. The name is a derivation of the ethnonym Helvetii, the name of the Gaulish tribe inhabiting the Swiss Plateau prior to the Roman conquest.
Helvetia is the female personification of Switzerland.
Helvetia may also refer to:
- 113390 Helvetia, an asteroid
- Helvetia (band), a rock band from Seattle, Washington
- Helvetia Insurance, a Swiss insurance company
- Helvetia (ship, 1875), a paddle steamer that operated on Lake Zurich from 1875 to 1958
- Helvetia (ship, 1964), a motor vessel that has operated on Lake Zurich since 1964
- Helvetia (spider), a genus of jumping spiders
- Helvetia (train), an express train formerly operated between Germany and Switzerland
- Helvetia, Arizona, a ghost town
- Helvetia, New Zealand, a location/hamlet near Pukekohe, New Zealand
- Helvetia, Oregon
- Helvetia, West Virginia
- Helvetia, Wisconsin
-
, a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1918 to 1919
Helvetia, an independent and experimental alternative music group from Seattle, Washington, was created by Jason Albertini after the dissolution of the band Duster (in which he played drums). Helvetia's first record, The Clever North Wind (2006), was released on The Static Cult Label and distributed by Up Records. Their first national exposure was achieved by touring with Built To Spill. Helvetia is produced/performed by Jason Albertini and sustained by a rotating live line-up, which has included C. Dove Amber, Jim Roth, Scott Plouf, Zeke Howard, and Samantha Stidham. Their third release, Headless Machine of the Heart (2008) was recorded entirely on a 4-track tape machine. Helvetia continues to release music through The Static Cult Label (which is helmed by Duster-mate Clay Parton). In 2012 Helvetia released the full-length album Nothing in Rambling on Joyful Noise Recordings. Helvetia released their new full-length album "Dromomania" on Joyful Noise Recordings on October 2, 2015. The name Helvetia is the female personification of Switzerland, the childhood home of Jason Albertini.
The Helvetia was an express train that, for most of its existence, linked Hamburg-Altona station in Hamburg, Germany, with Zürich HB in Zurich, Switzerland. Introduced in 1952, it was operated by the Deutsche Bundesbahn / Deutsche Bahn (DB) and the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB-CFF-FFS). The train's name, Helvetia, is the Latin word for "Switzerland".
Initially, the Helvetia was a Schnellzug (D), later a Fernschnellzug (F - although actually diesel multiple units were used on this service). In 1957, it became a first-class-only Trans Europ Express (TEE). On 27 May 1979, it was reclassified as a two-class Intercity (IC), and on 31 May 1987, it was included in the then-new EuroCity (EC) network. Following a brief hiatus in 1991–1992, it was reintroduced as an Intercity-Express (ICE). It ceased to be a named train at the end of 2002.
On 12 August 1965, the Helvetia was involved in a serious collision in Lampertheim, Hesse, in which the train formation ( consist) was severely damaged, and four people lost their lives. <!--
Usage examples of "helvetia".
Janet Helvetia, though she had expressed disapproval of such unfilial attitude, had in secret sympathised.
In the eighth year they were joined by a group of real Germans, the Cherusci, who came down from their lands around the Visurgis River, and in the ninth year by a people of Helvetia called the Tigurini, who seem to have lived to the east of Lake Lemanna, and are definitely Celts.
Everything they had rescued from the ashes of Helvetia was slipping through their hands like smoke.
We had a saying that those in Helvetia had best do as the Helvetians do, though all they generally did was freeze.
She knew that this particular memory was being called up by another, the memory of the tapes of the various escrow hearings on Helvetia, of a face more attractive than beautiful, mobile and expressive, shifting between disgust, deep interest, flashes of sudden amusement, the wry appreciation of absurdity, indignation and satisfaction.
I if you can get the board on Helvetia to let me anywhere near their verifier.
Miss Helvetia Appleyard from the world, and anticipating by a quarter of a century the prime enjoyment of British youth, had set to work to tickle that lady on the nose.
Miss Helvetia Appleyard awakened, did precisely what the tickled British maiden of to-day may be relied upon to do under corresponding circumstances: she first of all took swift and comprehensive survey of the male thing behind the feather.
And there remained to carry on the legend of the Grindleys and the Appleyards only Nathaniel George, now aged five, and Janet Helvetia, quite a beginner, who took lift seriously.
It was many years before Nathaniel George and Janet Helvetia met one another again, and when they did they had forgotten one another, Hezekiah S.
On the fourth, Helvetia Appleyard had occasion to despatch another telegram--this time entirely in English.
It was really marvellous the progress made by Grindley junior, under the tutelage of Helvetia Appleyard.
His earnestness, his enthusiasm, it quite touched the heart of Helvetia Appleyard.
Nathaniel George and Janet Helvetia would rest upon a seat, no living creature within sight, save perhaps a passing policeman or some dissipated cat.
Reflecting upon the future of Nathaniel George, Janet Helvetia could not escape a shade of sadness.