Sieben Zenden

Republic of the Seven Tithings
République des Sept-Dizains
1571–1798
Coat of arms 1582 seal (S(igillum) REIP(ublice) PATRIE VALLESY)
Map of the Valais, detail from a 1693 map of the Swiss Confederacy and its associates by Guillaume Sanson.
Capital		Not specified
Government		Republic
Historical era		Early Modern period
•	Zehndenherrschaft (Republic)	1571
•	declaration of independence	1613
•	de jure independence	1634
•	Disestablished	1798
Preceded by Succeeded by Prince-bishopric of Sion Helvetic Republic

The République des Sept-Dizains (German Republik der Sieben Zenden "Republic of the Seven Tithings") was a state in the Upper Valais, in what is now the Swiss canton of Valais, during the Early Modern period.

The seven tithings (dizains, Latin decumae), listed orographically, were Goms, Brig, Visp, Raron, Leuk, Siders, and Sion.

The six districts of the Lower Valais were known as "banners" (vexilla). They only came to be referred to as dizains as they acceded to the Rhodanic Republic and the Swiss canton, during 1802–1815.

They tithings (Zehnden) of the Upper Valais emerged as medieval communes, which were granted certain privileges by Charles IV in 1353. These territories had enjoyed de facto independence since the mid-15th century, as a result of the Raron affair, and they continued to grow in power and influence over the following two centuries. They seized much of the Lower Valais formerly controlled by the House of Savoy in 1475. This happened in the context of the Burgundian Wars, and with the agreement of both the bishop of Sion and the canton of Berne. The tithings gained further autonomy as a result of the conflict with bishop Matthäus Schiner after the Battle of Marignano (1515). Throughout the 16th century, the tithings, now calling themselves Republica Vallesi, acted as a sovereign power without regard to the prince-bishop who was still nominally the feudal ruler of Valais.