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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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“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

"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."

From BBC ● Dec. 23, 2021

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

A bit of climbing ivy converts a hideous ruin into a bower, as the Alp roses and the Iva make a garden for one short month of the roughest rocks in the Grisons.

From Paul Patoff by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

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