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About Thurgau
Thurgau is a northeast canton of Switzerland. It is known as for the river Thur, and the name Thurgovia was historically used for a larger location, consisting of a part of this river's basin upstream of the modern canton. The vicinity of what's now Thurgau changed into obtained as subject territories by the cantons of the Old Swiss Confederacy from the mid 15th century. Thurgau become first d a canton in its own right at the formation of the Helvetic Republic in 1798. The population, as of December 2017, is 273,801. In 2007, there had been a total of 47,390 who have been resident foreigners. The capital is Frauenfeld.
In prehistoric instances the lands of the canton had been inhabited with the aid of humans of the Pfyn subculture alongside Lake Constance. During Roman times the canton become a part of the province Raetia until in 450 the lands had been settled with the aid of the Alamanni. In the 6th century Thurgovia became a Gau of the Frankish Empire as part of Alemannia, passing to the Duchy of Swabia in the early tenth century. At this time, Thurgovia protected no longer simply what is now the canton of Thurgau, but additionally lots of the territory of the current canton of St. Gallen, the Appenzell and the japanese components of the canton of Zurich.
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