Grisons

[gree-zawn]

noun

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

Grisons

/ ɡrizɔ̃ /

noun

1. the French name for Graubünden

Example Sentences

Sandro Michael of the farmers' association in the eastern canton of Grisons says the growing wolf population is putting farmers under enormous pressure.

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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.

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The police in the eastern Swiss canton of Grisons confirmed that two skiers in their 50s were killed in an avalanche.

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“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.

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"The encounters in canton Grisons may seem dangerous to people," he told Swiss media, "but what happened is unlikely to have posed any real danger."

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