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3 unusual facts about Engadin


Engadine, New South Wales

After an overseas trip, the family renamed their estate ‘Engadine’ after the Engadin Valley in Switzerland.

Garfield Township, Mackinac County, Michigan

In December 1893, a railroad agent named Sam Peterson, who was a native of Switzerland, had the name changed to Engadine, after the scenic Swiss valley.

HMS Engadine

She was originally a merchant ship named after the Engadine valley in Switzerland, and the name was retained.


Egon Bretscher

He used to joke that his main contribution to physics occurred in the summer of 1930, when he was climbing in the Bergel region near Engadin with another student, Felix Bloch, in the Swiss Alps.

Lake Sils

The largest villages on Lake Sils are Sils im Engadin and Maloja (part of Bregaglia), located respectively at the eastern and western ends of the lake.

Lyceum Alpinum Zuoz

Lyceum Alpinum Zuoz is a private preparatory school and international boarding school located in the village of Zuoz in the Engadin valley in Switzerland.

Stampa

The municipality is divided into two distinct territories, the smaller in the Val Bregaglia and the larger which extends from the two sides of the Maloja Pass and Engadin.

Ulrich Wille

Wille decided to concentrate the bulk of his forces (238,000 men and 50,000 horses) close to the borders, particularly in Ajoie and Engadine.

Von Görschen

He was a successful commander during the War of the First Coalition in the region of Piemont 1797 and also during the War of the Second Coalition around Taufers (South Tyrol) and Susch (Engadin) in 1799 against Napoleon Bonaparte’s army.


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