X-Nico

unusual facts about Grisons



Similar

Bündner Oberländerschaf

The Bündner Oberländerschaf (also known as Grisons (French), Graubünden (German)) is a domesticated breed of sheep in Switzerland.

Capol

Capol is an old Swiss noble family from the canton of Grisons.

Fort Fuentes

The fortress was largely demolished in 1796 by general Rambeau on the orders of Napoleon and at the request of the Grisons.

Giusep Nay

Giusep Nay (born August 9, 1942 in Trun, Grisons) was the president of the Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland for the years 2005 and 2006.

Landsgemeinde

Similar assemnblies in dependent territories were known under terms such as Talgemeinde (for Talschaften, used in Ursern, Hasli, Obersimmental), Teding (Engelberg), Parlamento (Leventina, Zendgemeinden (for the Zenden or districts of Valais), but also as Landsgemeinde in Toggenburg and in parts of Grisons.

Musso, Lombardy

He was finally defeated by the combined forces of the Duke of Milan Francesco II Sforza, the Swiss Confederacy and the Grisons.

Pizzo Tre Signori

The name stems from the historical division of the area that it marked, between the State of Milan, the Republic of Venice and the Grisons canton of Switzerland.

Reformation in Italy

The first translation of the Bible into Italian language by Giovanni Diodati of Lucca was published in 1603, after the fall of the Reformation in Italy, and for this reason it only contributed to the development of Protestantism outside Italy, mainly in Italian-speaking cantons of Switzerland (Ticino and Grisons).

Reichenau

Reichenau, Switzerland, part of the municipality Tamins, in Grisons, Switzerland

Sberna

Galo dialect drift Italico (Lombard language), mixture of French, Italian and German or maybe the (Romansh) spoken in the Canton of Grisons (Graubünden (Switzerland), Lombardy (Italy) and Canton of Ticino (Switzerland), whose etymology seems to be very old and date back to the time of Gaul, which was inhabited by Celtic tribes, between present-Switzerland, part of Belgium, part of Austria and northern Italy.

Second War of Kappel

Only strategically important places such as the Freiamt or those along the route from Schwyz to the Rhine valley at Sargans (and thus to the alpine passes in the Grisons) were forcibly re-catholicised.

Sils Lake

Lake Sils in the Upper Engadine valley, Grisons, Switzerland

Sonderbund War

But contrary to triumphant proclamations in the Sonderbund newspapers, the action failed to effectively separate the federal troops under Luvini in the Ticino from those in the Grisons under Eduard de Salis-Soglio (the brother of the insurgent commander), because the San Bernardino Pass remained open to the Confederates.

Swiss People's Party

Shortly afterward, the Grisons branch reorganised itself as the Conservative Democratic Party (BDP).

Theodosius Florentini

Theodosius Florentini (born at Münster, in the Grisons, Switzerland, 23 May 1808; died at Heiden, in Appenzell, 15 February 1865) was a Swiss Capuchin monk, a founder of Catholic religious orders and institutions.


see also