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Italian Grisons or Italian Grigioni (Italian: Grigionitaliano or Grigioni italiano; German: Italienischbünden; Romansh: Grischun talian; French: Grisons italiens) or sometimes also called Lombard Grisons (Lombard: Grison lombard, lumbard; Romansh: Grischun lumbard), is the region of the Canton of Grisons, Switzerland, in which Italian is the ...
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The German name of the canton, Graubünden, translates as the...
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The languages spoken in Graubünden are German in the...
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The German name of the canton, Graubünden, translates as the "Grey Leagues", referring to the canton's origin in three local alliances, the Three Leagues. The other native names also refer to the Grey League : Grischùn in Sutsilvan , Grischun in the other forms of Romansh , and Grigioni in Italian .
When Graubünden became a canton in 1803, Chur was chosen as its capital. Chur's cemetery is in the centre of town, and in the middle of the cemetery is a 13-tonne (13,000 kg) stone monument that dwarfs the nearby gravestones .
Graubünden is the only tri-lingual canton in Switzerland where 72,5 per cent of the population speak German, 14,1 per cent Romansh, 13,4 per cent Italian. Multilingualism is also present in schools and in the administration.
The languages spoken in Graubünden are German in the northwest, Romansh in the Engadin and around Disentis/Mustér), and Standard Italian in the valleys Mesolcina/Misox, Calanca, Val Bregaglia, and Poschiavo. The main religions are Protestantism and Catholicism.
[ɡʁiˈʒun], italienisch Grigioni [ɡriˈdʒoːni], französisch Grisons, lombardisch Grisun) ist ein Kanton der Schweiz und liegt vollständig im Gebiet der Alpen. Graubünden ist der einzige Kanton mit drei Amtssprachen: Deutsch, Rätoromanisch und Italienisch.
The Engadin or Engadine (Romansh: Engiadina ⓘ; [note 1] German: Engadin ⓘ; Italian: Engadina; French: Engadine) is a long high Alpine valley region in the eastern Swiss Alps in the canton of Graubünden in southeasternmost Switzerland with about 25,000 inhabitants.
