Gersau, a village in the Swiss canton of Schwyz, on the Lake of Lucerne, and near the foot of the Rigi. Population, 1850. From 1390 till it was absorbed by the French in the Helvetian Republic (1798) the village and its territory, 5 miles square, was an independent republic. In 1817 it became part of Schwyz. See Coolidge in the Engl. Hist. Review, July 1888.
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