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	Canton of Grisons Hotels, Accommodation in Switzerland
		Arosa is a municipality in the district of Plessur in the canton of Graubunden in Switzerland.
		Celerina/Schlarigna is a municipality in the district of Maloja in the Swiss canton of Graubunden.
		Savognin is a municipality in the district of Albula in the canton of Graubunden in Switzerland.
	www.magicaljourneys.com /Switzerland/switzerland-hotels-grisons.html (633 words)

	Grisons, Switzerland
		The canton usually known in English by its French name of Grisons (German Graubünden, Romansch Grischun, Italian Grigioni), is a typical mountain region, with its valleys lying at heights of between 900 and 2,000 m/2,953 and 6,562ft and its highest peak, Bernina, rising to 4,049 m/ 13,285ft.
		Within the canton are the sources of the Rhine (which receives the water of three-fifths of the rivers in the canton) and the Inn (Romansch En); the rivers in the south-facing valleys on the Italian side drain into the Po.
		Grisons, the largest canton in Switzerland, owes its name to the Upper or Gray League (Ligue Grise, Grauer Bund) formed by the peasants of the region in 1395, like the League of the House of God and the League of the Ten Jurisdictions, to defend their interests against the Habsburgs.
	www.planetware.com /switzerland/grisons-ch-gr-gris.htm (457 words)

	Grisons - Encyclopedia.com
		The largest and most sparsely populated of the cantons, it is a region of Alpine peaks and glaciers, of forested highlands, and of fertile valleys.
		Italian-speakers inhabit the three southern prongs of the canton: the Val Mesolcida, the Val Bregaglia, and the Val di Poschiavo.
		In 1799 the Grisons was forced by the French to enter the Helvetic Republic, and in 1803 it became a Swiss canton under Napoleon's Act of Mediation.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Grisons.html (1230 words)

	Grisons - LoveToKnow 1911
		The chief affluents of the Rhine in the canton are the Glenner (flowing through the Lugnetz valley), the Avers Rhine, the Albula (swollen by the Julia and the Landwasser), the Plessur (Schanfigg valley) and the Landquart (coming from the Prattigau).
		The population of the canton in 1900 was 104,520.
		In 1799 the French invaded the canton, which became the scene of a fierce conflict (1799-1800) between them and the united Russian and Austrian army, in the course of which the French burnt (May 1799) the ancient convent of Disentis with all its literary treasures.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Grisons (1826 words)

	Canton des Grisons
		Avec l’ouverture des routes et l’arrivée du chemin de fer, les Grisons subirent une vague d’immigration venue des cantons voisins germanophones, ce qui eut pour effet de réduire considérablement l’aire linguistique du romanche dans le canton.
		Le canton des Grisons se distingue de tous les autres cantons par le fait que les autorités cantonales ont délégué leur juridiction aux communes en matière de langue.
		Cela signifie que l'emploi des langues dans les Grisons est régi par les administrations communales (Gemeinden) et que le fameux principe de la territorialité des langues n'est pas appliqué intégralement: le canton des Grisons n'a jamais garanti, ni dans sa Constitution ni dans une loi, l'immutabilité du territoire romanche.
	www.tlfq.ulaval.ca /axl/europe/suisse_Grisons.htm (4372 words)

	Le Blog Suisse
		Canton de l’est de la confédération, mitoyen du canton des Grisons, le canton de Glaris ou Glarus ou encore Glarnerland est un canton rustique qui a su préserver son patrimoine et ses valeurs.
		Canton central de la confédération helvétique, le canton de Lucerne ou Luzern, a pour voisin l’imposant canton de Berne à l’ouest et le canton d’Argovie au nord.
		Dans le haut, l’activité économique du canton est l’industrie horlogère alors que dans le bas, le canton regroupe une population tournée vers la fonction publique et les emplois tertiaires.
	www.e-annuaire.ch /news (4758 words)

	Grisons
		The canton is entirely mountainous, comprising the highlands of the Rhine and Inn valleys.
		The languages spoken in the Grisons are German in the NW (54%), Romansh - a language of the Ladin[?] group - in the Engadin and around Disentis/Mustér (31%), and Italian in the valleys Mesolcina/Misox, Calanca, Bregaglia/Bergell, and Poschiavo/Puschau (15%).
		The name Graubünden means "The Gray Leagues." The Grisons were established in the 14th century from the merging of three defensive leagues, the Gray League[?] (Grauer Bund), the League of God's House[?] (Cadi, Gottes Haus, Ca' di Dio), and the League of the Ten Jurisdictions[?] (Zehngerichtebund).
	www.fastload.org /gr/Grisons.html (222 words)

	PEOPLES MOVEMENT FOR NATIONAL REGENERATION
		In one canton (Grisons) German, Italian and Rhaeto-Romanic (Rumantsch) are spoken.
		Not all the cantons are single territorial entities: they may have small enclaves completely surrounded by the territory of other cantons.
		The newest is the canton of Jura, which separated from the canton of Bern in 1979.
	www.lankachronicle.com /CIMOGG/appendix-6.html (318 words)

	RTR - RTR - Englais EN
		RTR bridges the linguistic divide in Canton Grisons and reaches out to the scattered Romansch-speaking communities throughout Switzerland and beyond its national borders.
		With a radio station in operation 14 hours a day and 90 minutes of television programming a week, RTR provides a Romansch-language offering that comprehensively informs and entertains Romansch-speakers in their mother tongue: Up-to-date, in-depth, independent and audience-relevant.
		The name "Cuntrasts" ("Contrasts") says it all: The film features are as colourful and varied as the canton itself.
	www.rtr.ch /rtr/index.html?siteSect=10033 (501 words)

	Grisons — Infoplease.com
		The largest and most sparsely populated of the cantons, it is a region of Alpine peaks and glaciers, of forested highlands, and of fertile valleys.
		Italian-speakers inhabit the three southern prongs of the canton: the Val Mesolcida, the Val Bregaglia, and the Val di Poschiavo.
		Pontresina - Pontresina, village, Grisons canton, SE Switzerland, at the foot of the Bernina Alps.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/world/A0821890.html (497 words)

	Rhine
		Together with the Danube it formed most of the northern frontier of the Roman Empire and has since those days been a vital navigable waterway, carrying trade and goods deep inland.
		The Rhine's origins are in the Swiss Alps in the canton of Grisons, where its two main initial tributaries are called Vorderrhein and Hinterrhein.
		When leaving the Grisons, the Rhine flows north to along the frontier to Liechtenstein and Austria, and then empties into Lake Constance.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ri/Rijn.html (511 words)

	Chur, Switzerland
		Chur, capital of the Grisons canton and oldest town in Switzerland, has developed into a considerable intellectual and cultural attraction thanks to its excellent strategic situation at the end of some of the most important passes through the Alps and also its mild climate.
		The town, known in Romansch as Cuera or Cuoira, grew up around the episcopal residence of the bishops of Chur (who are first mentioned in the records in 452), and became an important staging-point on the trade routes through the Alps.
		When the canton of Grisons was established in 1803 Chur became its administrative capital.
	www.planetware.com /switzerland/chur-ch-gr-chur.htm (272 words)

	Protected Areas Programme - (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Each of the cantons and demi-cantons is sovereign, so far as its independence and legislative powers are not restricted by the federal constitution.
		All cantonal governments are organised around, and place a high value on, the principle of the sovereignty of the people.
		Swiss National Park, situated in the canton of Grisons, was established originally by private initiative in 1909.
	www.unep-wcmc.org /protected_areas/data/countrysheets/che.html (3581 words)

	Nov'Arcadia Swiss History-German
		Despite their Canton being, now and for millennia past, at the cross-roads of trade between northern and southern Europe, their determination to preserve their eden has helped create an environment unmatched anywhere, even in the rest of Switzerland, for the flourishing of people without marring the land.
		Thus, the Grisons are much unlike the internationalized center, west and south of Switzerland, where places like Gstaad, Montreux, Interlaken, Villars and the many smaller towns around them, have morphed, in the minds of foreign travelers, the model of resorts for the very wealthy and the sophisticated.
		Not having been overwhelmed by tourism, the Grisons are still the least polluted of all the cantons, still a place where smiles are genuine and a hand extended is meant to be shaken, and not palmed.
	www.disca.net /morihistde.htm (2336 words)

	Grisons - Wikipédia
		Les Grisons (en allemand Graubünden, en romanche Grischun, en italien Grigioni) est un canton suisse.
		Le canton des Grisons est situé dans les Alpes à l’est, soit au sud des cantons de St-Gall, Glaris et Uri, au sud également du Lichtenstein et de l’Autriche, à l’est du canton du Tessin et au nord de l’Italie.
		C'est dans le canton des Grisons et lui seul qu'est parlé le romanche, quatrième langue officielle de la Suisse.
	fr.wikipedia.org /wiki/Grisons (557 words)

	Nov'Arcadia Swiss History-English
		The name "Grisons", English and French approximations for the German "Graubünden", the Italian "Grigioni" or for a common transliteration of the various forms of Romansch "Grischun", reminds us of the "Grey" and other Leagues, once clusters of small kingdoms or fiefs, one of the last regions to be integrated as a canton within the Confederation.
		Since the beginning of the 19th century, the Grisons' population centers have become the gathering places for excursionists and sportsmen from all corners of the British Empire, the diplomats of Bavaria, Prussia and Austria-Hungary, celebrities from the United States, and other travelers from the world over.
		Not having been overwhelmed by wholesale tourism, the Grisons are still the least culturally globalised of all the cantons, still a place where smiles are genuine and a hand extended is meant to be shaken, and not palmed.
	www.disca.net /morihisten.htm (2008 words)

	The Washington Times - Switzerland (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The cantons and many of their communes have each their own constitution and laws, which mainly follow the chief lines of those of the Federation.
		The cantons support most of the cost of police, fire and public health services as well as the administration of justice, education and research.
		Originally each canton had its own laws, its own civil and penal codes but there was a federal civil code in 1912 and a penal code in 1937.
	www.internationalspecialreports.com /europe/00/switzerland/4.html (1312 words)

	Ethnologue report for Switzerland
		Ticino Canton and Graubünden in the Mesolcina District and two districts south of St. Moritz, central southeast Switzerland.
		Borders of Switzerland, Austria, Italy; Graubünden Canton, Grisons valley of Surselva, valley of Voderrhein; Engadin and Val Mustair, southeast Switzerland.
		Each canton has a separate variety, many of which are unintelligible to each other's speakers.
	www.ethnologue.com /show_country.asp?name=CH (433 words)

	Canton of Grisons: Monitoring, Controlling and Marketing of the Cantonal Guiding Plan (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Working out the new cantonal guiding plan 2000, the Canton of Grisons wants to orientate its spatial development towards the principle of sustainability.
		One step to this end is to improve the efficacy of the instrument "cantonal guiding plan".
		Key indicators to measure the efficacy of the cantonal guiding plan are proposed.
	www.nsl.ethz.ch:16080 /~keiner/homepage_d/gr.html (109 words)

	Swiss Genealogy : Canton Graubünden
		You are further invited to discuss your questions with other researchers interested in canton Grisons on the "Genealogieforum Graubünden" (dialogue in German or French).
		The archive is open to visitors to read; in order to be able to respond or start a new thread, however, registration (free of charge) is required.
		When posting, please, keep in mind that only topics related to Grisons should be placed here; for topics related to other regions, please, change to the corresponding canton or to the forum for Switzerland in general (dialogue in German or French).
	www.eye.ch /swissgen/kant/grallg-e.htm (595 words)

	Relief Shading - Examples - Grisons
		In 1963 Eduard Imhof and Heinz Leuzinger published school maps of the Canton of Grisons.
		Compared to other Swiss school maps, their work stands out for its excellent shaded relief.
		School wall map 1:100,000 and school map 1:250,000 "Graubünden" (Canton of Grisons) (Ticino section) by E.
	www.reliefshading.com /examples/imhof_grisons.html (46 words)

	Rhäzüns (Switzerland, canton of Grisons (Site not responding. Last check: )
		RHÄZÜNS is a small village built at the confluence of Rein Anteriur and Rein Posteriur, about 10 miles west of the city of Coire in the Canton of Grisons.
		Saint-George's church is built on a rocky outcrop outside the village and hidden in the middle of a forest.
		As the master of Waltensburg worked in the territories of the barons of Vaz, Rhäzüns and Belmont, his paintings are still visible in Waltensburg, Coire, Churwalden, Dusch and Lanz, in the canton of Grisons.
	www.impens.com /cgi-bin/fiche.cgi?UK&40 (1465 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Prefecture Apostolic of Misocco and Calanca
		This prefecture in the canton of Grisons, Switzerland, comprises the valley of the Moesa which starts at the pass of San Bernardino and flows into the Ticino, and also the valley of Calanca, through which the Calasanca flows.
		The prefecture was established in 1635 at the suggestion of Bishop Joseph Mohr of Chur, at whose instance the Propaganda sent Capuchin missionaries to the Italian-speaking inhabitants of Grisons valleys of Misocco and Calanca..
		Capuchins from Milan were the first missionaries; from 1790-1802 Novara and then until 1850 Pavia Capuchins had charge; since then the mission has been administered by the Capuchins of Ticino.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/10354b.htm (296 words)

	Grisons — FactMonster.com
		A part of Rhaetia under the Roman Empire, the territory preserved Roman laws and customs, although it nominally passed to the Ostrogoths (493) and to the Franks (537).
		c.6,000 ft (1,830 m), Grisons canton, E Switzerland.
		Ofen, Alpine pass, Switzerland - Ofen, Alpine pass, 7,070 ft (2,155 m) high, Grisons canton, E Switzerland.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/world/A0821890.html (416 words)

	grisons - OneLook Dictionary Search
		Tip: Click on the first link on a line below to go directly to a page where "grisons" is defined.
		GRISONS : 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica [home, info]
		Phrases that include grisons: canton of the grisons
	www.onelook.com /?w=grisons (134 words)

	Museum of nature in Chur: Welcome
		Its various activities present the nature and the characteristics of the canton Grisons to the broad public.
		It thus contributes to the environmental education and to the sustainable use of resources.
		A major aspect of the activity is documenting the nature of the Grisons and its changes.
	www.naturmuseum.gr.ch /index.php/en (325 words)

	Chambres d'hôtes en Suisse dans le Canton de Grisons en Suisse . Louer une chambre d'hote près de Coire / Grisons
		Chambres d'hôtes en Suisse dans le Canton de Grisons en Suisse.
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	www.hote.ch /canton/GR-GRISONS.PHP (305 words)

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