Grisons
Americannoun
noun
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Sandro Michael of the farmers' association in the eastern canton of Grisons says the growing wolf population is putting farmers under enormous pressure.
From BBC • Dec. 29, 2023
The police in the eastern Swiss canton of Grisons confirmed that two skiers in their 50s were killed in an avalanche.
From New York Times • Feb. 6, 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
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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