Grisons

American  

[gree-zawn] / griˈzɔ̃ /

noun

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

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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

The former is Grand Master of the Ordnance, Colonel-General of the Swiss and Grisons, and Governor of Guienne: He married Louisa-Benedictina of Bourbon-Condé, by whom he has two Sons and a Daughter.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume II Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels From Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by P?llnitz, Karl Ludwig von