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The Greater Swiss Mountain Dog is
the largest of the traditional Swiss herding breeds, the Sennehunds, a
grouping in which the Bernese Mountain Dog is also included. They are
believed descended from large dogs brought to Switzerland by the
Romans in the first century B.C., although another theory states that
they arrived many centuries earlier with Phoenician traders. In any
case, they are almost certainly the result of the mating of indigenous
dogs with large mastiff-type dogs brought to Switzerland by foreign
settlers. Greater Swiss Mountains Dogs are believed to be in the
ancestry of both the Saint Bernard Dog and the
Rottweiler.
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