Basel Stadt

Basel-Stadt is one of the 26 cantons of Switzerland, and the smallest of the cantons with the aid of place. The metropolis of Basel and the municipalities of Bettingen and Riehen form its territory. The canton of Basel-Stadt changed into created whilst the historic canton of Basel changed into divided in 1833, following political quarrels and armed war within the canton. Some of these were worried with the rights of the populace within the agricultural regions. They in the end led to the separation of the canton of Basel-Landschaft from the town of Basel on 26 August 1833.

Since then, there has been a motion for reunification. This movement received momentum after 1900 when many elements of Basel-Landschaft have become industrialized. The two half-cantons agreed in precept to reunite, but in 1969, and again in September 2014, the people of Basel-Landschaft voted in opposition to this notion in favour of keeping their independence. Basel-Stadt is a half of-canton. This manner that the canton handiest sends one consultant to the Council of States.