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Grisons

American  
[gree-zawn] / griˈzɔ̃ /

noun

  1. a canton in E Switzerland. 2,747 sq. mi. (7,115 sq. km). Chur.


Grisons British  
/ ɡrizɔ̃ /

noun

  1. the French name for Graubünden

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Sandro Michael of the farmers' association pointed out that the cull in canton Grisons was not even going as far as the new proposals allowed.

From BBC Dec. 29, 2023

“No one expected similar sites,” says Thomas Reitmaier, an archaeologist at the Archaeological Service of the Canton of Grisons in Switzerland and a co-author of the new study.

From Science Magazine Nov. 7, 2022

There have been reports of diseases from the cantons: Ticino, Geneva, Grisons, Aargau, Zurich, Basel-City and Vaud.

From The Guardian Feb. 28, 2020

After learning of the collection in 2009, the Grisons Art Museum in Chur enlisted Remo Stoffel, a local real estate tycoon and patron, to buy it for more than $1 million.

From Reuters Jul. 4, 2016

It has a scanty printed literature, but is still widely spoken, so that, of the 38,651 persons in the Swiss Confederation who speak it, no fewer than 36,472 are in the Grisons.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" by Various

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