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Article: Geneva
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- Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
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GENEVA
GENEVA.
The only European city to become an independent republic in the sixteenth century and remain so for over 250 years (1536
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1798), Geneva became best known as the seat of John Calvin's (1509
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1564) Reformation. These two distinctions are closely connected. Calvinist austerity gave a durable imprint to Geneva's character, and many of the republic's leading families descended from French religious refugees who were drawn by Calvin's fame. Thanks partly to its university, founded in 1559 to train pastors for the Reformed Church in France, Geneva maintained a disproportionate intellectual role in early modern Europe from the Reformation through the Enlightenment. ...
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