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In the Swiss canton of Graubünden ( Grisons ) only the Walser exclaves in the Romansh part and the Prättigau, Schanfigg and Davos are Highest Alemannic ; the Rhine Valley with Chur and Engadin are High Alemannic.
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Swiss and canton
Aarau (, locally ) is the capital of the northern Swiss canton of Aargau.
Fricktal, ceded in 1802 by Austria via Napoleonic France to the Helvetic Republic, was briefly a separate Swiss canton under a Statthalter (' Lieutenant '), but on 9 March 1803 was incorporated in the canton of Aargau.
Ten years later ( 24 September 1856 ) the Swiss Federal Council voted them equal political rights with other Swiss citizens in that canton, as well as entire freedom of commerce ; but the opposition of the Christian population prevented the decision from being generally carried out.
The canton of Aargau is one of the least mountainous Swiss cantons, forming part of a great table-land, to the north of the Alps and the east of the Jura, above which rise low hills.
* AI, the abbreviation for Appenzell Innerrhoden, a Swiss canton
On 9 June 1501 Basel joined the Swiss Confederation as its eleventh canton.
An example of this is how the fundamental basis of Swiss citizenship is citizenship of an individual commune, from which follows citizenship of a canton and of the Confederation.
Saint Brieuc founded the city that bears his name in Brittany, Saint Colmán founded the great monastery of Bobbio in northern Italy and one of his monks was Saint Gall for whom the Swiss town of St Gallen and canton of St Gallen.
In 1803, it became the capital of a newly formed Swiss canton, Vaud under which it joined the Swiss Federation.
The grape was introduced to the Swiss, from Bordeaux, sometime in the 19th century and was recorded in the Swiss canton of Ticino between 1905 and 1910.
* 1809 – The Swiss canton of Aargau denies citizenship to Jews.
In the 2000 Swiss census, 35, 095 people ( of which 27, 038 in the canton of Grisons ) indicated Romansh as the language of " best command ", and 61, 815 also as a " regularly spoken " language.
The Swiss army originated from the cantonal troops of the Old Swiss Confederacy, called upon in cases of external threats by the Tagsatzung or by the canton in distress.
Zurich ( German: Zürich, ; Swiss German: Züri ) is the largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zurich.
* November 27-Women's suffrage was introduced in the last Swiss half canton of Appenzell Innerrhoden.
** The Swiss canton of Aargau denies Jews citizenship.
* March 9 – Aargau becomes a Swiss canton.
Carl Jung was born Karl Gustav II Jung in Kesswil, in the Swiss canton of Thurgau, on 26 July 1875, as the fourth but only surviving child of Paul Achilles Jung and Emilie Preiswerk.
The first green party in Europe was the Popular Movement for the Environment, founded in 1972 in the Swiss canton of Neuchâtel.
She traveled in Germany and Italy before purchasing the Château of Arenenberg in the Swiss canton of Thurgau in 1817.
Swiss and Graubünden
Under the terms of the act, Graubünden, St. Gallen, Thurgau, the Ticino and Vaud become Swiss cantons.
He was elected to the Federal Council on December 5, 1979 as a member of the Swiss People's Party ( SVP ) from the Canton of Graubünden ( Grisons ).
Graubünden is also home to three of Switzerland's ethnic groups and the subsequent languages of Swiss German, Italian and Romansh are all native to the state.
Chur or Coire ( – in general and in Graubünden –, – in other places of Switzerland –; ; or ; ; ;, and ) is the capital of the Swiss canton of Graubünden and lies in the northern part of the canton.
The Engadin or Engadine ( German: Engadin, Italian: Engadina, Romansh: Engiadina ; tr: garden of the Inn ) is a long valley in the Swiss Alps located in the canton of Graubünden in southeast Switzerland.
The company operates most of the railways in the Swiss canton of Graubünden as the Swiss federal railway company SBB-CFF-FFS extend only a few kilometres over the cantonal border to the capital at Chur.
* In the Swiss canton of Graubünden the 11 districts are divided into 39 Kreise ( circles )
It is a municipality in the district of Maloja in the Swiss canton of Graubünden.
In 1971, the BGB changed its name to the Swiss People's Party ( SVP ) after it merged with the Democratic Party from Glarus and Graubünden.
It forms the border between the Swiss canton of Graubünden and the Austrian state of Vorarlberg and is the highest peak in Vorarlberg.
The Romansh language, which is still spoken in some parts of the Swiss Canton Graubünden, has survived in many of the regional field names.
* 1993 Best Building 1993 award from Swiss tc's ' 10 vor ' 10, Graubünden, Switzerland.
During the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries, the Valtellina belonged to Graubünden ( the " Grey Leagues "), which was then a mutual-defense region independent of Switzerland but is now the easternmost Swiss Canton.
During the Thirty Years ' War, the Drei Bünde ( Graubünden, an associate state of the Swiss Confederation ) had been caught in the middle of internal and external conflict.
In 1803 Napoleon's Act of Mediation reestablished a Swiss Confederation that partially restored the sovereignty of the cantons, and the former tributary and allied territories of Aargau, Thurgau, Graubünden, St. Gallen, Vaud and Ticino became cantons with equal rights.
Zernez is a municipality in the district of Inn in the Swiss canton of Graubünden.
The Swiss National Park (; ; ; ) is located in the canton of Graubünden in the east of Switzerland between Zernez, S-chanf, Scuol and the Fuorn Pass in the Engadin valley on the border with Italy.
Val Müstair is a municipality in the district of Inn in the Swiss canton of Graubünden.
The largest part of the valley is part of the Swiss canton of Graubünden.
North Tyrol borders Salzburg in the east, the German federal-state of Bavaria in the north, Vorarlberg to the west, the Swiss canton of Graubünden ( Grison ) to the southwest and the South Tyrol in Italy to the south.
It is also the farthest easterly mountain higher than 4, 000 m in the Alps, the highest point of the Swiss canton of Graubünden, and the fifth-most prominent peak in the Alps.
When classically prepared in Valtellina or in Graubünden, they are cooked along with greens ( often Swiss Chard but also Savoy cabbage ), and cubed potatoes.
Furna is a municipality in the district of Prättigau / Davos in the Swiss canton of Graubünden.
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