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The Grisons or Graubünden, more formally the Canton Grisons, is one of the twenty-six cantons of Switzerland. It has eleven districts, and its capital is Chur. The German name of the canton, Graubünde
The Engadin (here near St. Moritz and the lakes) is one of the highest valleys of the Alps and the only Swiss region in the basin of the Black Sea.
The Anterior Rhine (here at the Rhine Gorge) is one of the largest rivers in the canton.
Lowlands: Vineyards of the Bündner Herrschaft, at the foot of the Falknis
Montane zone: Val Bregaglia, at the foot of Piz Badile
Romansh language
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Romansh is a Romance language of the Gallo-Romance and/or Rhaeto-Romance branch of languages spoken predominantly in the Swiss canton of the Grisons. Romansh has been recognized as a national language
Grisons
…three local alliances, the Three Leagues. The other native names also refer to the Grey League: Grischùn in Sutsilvan, Grischun in the other forms of Romansh, and Grigioni in Italian. Rhaetia is the Latin name for the area. The Alpine ibex is the canton's heraldic symbol. The largest and easternmost canton…
"La mort da Benedetg Fontana", a Romansh passage in a Latin chronicle by Durich Chiampel
Front page of Ilg Vêr Sulaz da pievel giuvan
Cover page of Ortografia et ortoëpia del idiom romauntsch d'Engiadin'ota
A 6th-series 10-Swiss franc bill, the first to include Romansh