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Vogt (Switzerland)
Title and office in the Old Swiss Confederacy / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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A Vogt (plural Vögte) was a title and office in the Old Swiss Confederacy, inherited from the feudal system of the Holy Roman Empire, corresponding to the English reeve. The German term Vogtei is ultimately a loan from Latin [ad]vocatia.
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