In Switzerland, Italian is one of the four official languages ; it is studied and learned in all the confederation schools and spoken, as mother tongue, in the Swiss cantons of Ticino and Grigioni and by the Italian immigrants that are present in large numbers in German-and French-speaking cantons.

Finally, on 22 January 1555, the council announced the decision of the Swiss churches: the original Ordonnances were to be kept and the Consistory was to regain its official powers.

Article 58. 1 of the April 18, 1999, Federal Constitution of the Swiss Confederation ( official, French version ) provides that " Switzerland has an army.

For example, Switzerland is constitutionally a confederation of cantons, and has four official languages, but it has also a ' Swiss ' national identity, a national history and a classic national hero, Wilhelm Tell.

Its official language is Swiss German.

* Swiss Statistics, official website of the Swiss Federal Statistical Office

The official language, and the one used for most written communication, is Swiss Italian.

32 ) served as Guard Infantry, until the Swiss regiments were disbanded and new official Guard Regiments of Grenadiers and Jagers were raised.

According to the official Vatican version, Estermann and his wife, Gladys Meza Romero, were killed by the young Swiss Guard Cédric Tornay, who later committed suicide.

In its southeastern part lies the only official Swiss National Park.

Up until this time, the Swiss Brethren ( who did not use the name " Mennonite " for themselves ) had no official confession of faith beyond the Schleitheim Confession.

The tower is sometimes known as " Swiss Re Tower ", although this name is not official.

* Federal Chancellor of Switzerland, a Swiss federal government official

According to the Swiss order of precedence, the President of the Confederation is the highest-ranking Swiss official.

Mostly, they have chosen to rent apartments or hotel suites in Bern ( at their own expense ), However, they are entitled to use the Federal Council's country estate, Lohn, for holidays ; this estate is also used to host official guests of the Swiss Confederation.

Under Swiss law, all adult males who have received training in the Swiss armed forces are reservists who are required under law to keep their official firearms at home.

Swiss Federal Railways, usually abbreviated in English using the German SBB (, Schweizerische Bundesbahnen ;, Chemins de fer fédéraux suisses ;, Ferrovie federali svizzere ; Romansh: Viafiers federalas svizras ; VFS ( Romansh ) is not in official use ) is the national railway company of Switzerland headquartered in Bern.

The first train running on the account of the Swiss Confederation ran during the night of New Year's Day in 1901 from Zurich via Bern to Geneva, although 1 January 1902 is regarded as the official birth date of Swiss Federal Railways.

* Hotel post, a service offered by remote Swiss hotels for the carriage of mail to the nearest official post office

On April 1, 1981, the Swiss Psalm was declared the official Swiss national anthem.

The official military establishment can only threaten to use its nuclear arms ; ;

Using former slaves in the military was official government policy after the issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation.

For most speakers ( even native speakers ), this form of the language is generally difficult to understand, as it contains many highly specialised terms for diplomatic, internal, official, and military matters.

In a report released in 2012-01-19, Armenian military official site said that 36 Armenian soldiers died in 2011, and that only 10 of them were shot by Azerbaijani forces.

In 2001, the National Guard unit was designated an official military unit of the Bulgarian army and one of the symbols of state authority, along with the flag, the coat of arms and the national anthem.

Those who made the Third Reich ’ s military plans and organized its war economy appear rarely, if ever, to have employed the term blitzkrieg in official documents.

The Citadelle of Quebec still survives as the largest citadel still in official military operation in North America after more than two hundred years of existence.

The Commonwealth of England was the official name of the political unit ( de facto military rule in the name of parliamentary supremacy ) that replaced the kingdoms of Scotland and England ( after the English Civil War ) from 1649 to 1653 and 1659 to 1660.

The Communists, tipped-off that a Nationalist offensive was imminent, retreated in the Long March, during which Mao Zedong rose from a mere military official to the most influential leader of the Communist Party of China.

" If you look at it as a whole ," a senior S / LPD official said, " the Office of Public Diplomacy was carrying out a huge psychological operation of the kind the military conducts to influence a population in denied or enemy territory.

Diocletian's reforms shifted the governors ' main function to that of the presiding official in the lower courts: whereas in the early Empire military and judicial functions were the function of governor, and procurators had supervised taxation ; under the new system vicarii and governors were responsible for justice and taxation, and a new class of duces (" dukes "), acting independently of the civil service, had military command.

The official insisted that the establishment of a marine park — the world's largest — would in no way impinge on USG use of the BIOT, including Diego Garcia, for military purposes.

" Don't ask, don't tell " ( DADT ) was the official United States policy on homosexuals serving in the military from December 21, 1993 to September 20, 2011.

The President is the supreme authority for military matters and is the sole official who can order a nuclear strike.

After the military coup, in 1980 PAIGC admitted in its official newspaper " Nó Pintcha " ( dated November 29, 1980 ) that many were executed and buried in unmarked collective graves in the woods of Cumerá, Portogole and Mansabá.

Under a right-wing military dictatorship, Spain saw its political parties banned, except for the official party ( Falange ).

Harry then accompanied either both parents or his father on subsequent tours, though he only began solo official engagements after his military training and active service.

Ul-Haq was much more committed to Islamism, and " Islamization " or implementation of Islamic law ( AKA sharia ), became a cornerstone of his eleven-year military dictatorship and Islamism became his " official state ideology ".

In 2005, the United States had 737 military bases in foreign countries, according to official sources.

Soviet military casualties totaled approximately 35 million ( official figures 28. 2 million ) with approximately 14. 7 million killed, missing or captured ( official figures 11. 285 million ).

* 1907 – The Short Magazine Lee-Enfield Mk III is officially introduced into British Military Service, and remains the second oldest military rifle still in official use.

The Lebanese Armed Forces ( LAF ) ( Arabic: القوات المسلحة اللبنانية | Al-Quwwāt al-Musallaḥa al-Lubnāniyya ) or Forces Armées Libanaises in French, also known as the Lebanese Army according to its official Website ( Arabic: الجيش اللبناني or " Armée libanaise " in French, is the military of the Republic of Lebanon.

The Lebanese Armed Forces has six official military colleges and schools that serve a wide variety of functions from officer training to overseeing national youth conscription programs.