Engadin, the Glossary
The Engadin or Engadine (help;This is the name in the two Romansh idioms that are spoken in the Engadin, Vallader and Puter, as well as in Sursilvan and Rumantsch Grischun. In Surmiran, the name is Nagiadegna, and in Sutsilvan, it is Gidegna. help; Engadina; Engadine) is a long high Alpine valley region in the eastern Swiss Alps in the canton of Graubünden in southeasternmost Switzerland with about 25,000 inhabitants.[1]
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- Regions of Switzerland
Albula Pass
The Albula Pass (Romansh: Pass d'Alvra or, Albulapass) (el. 2312 m) is a Swiss mountain pass in the canton of Graubünden.
Albula Tunnel
The Albula Tunnel is the centrepiece of the Albula Railway, which forms part of the Rhaetian Railway network, in the Canton of Graubünden, Switzerland.
Alps
The Alps are one of the highest and most extensive mountain ranges in Europe, stretching approximately across eight Alpine countries (from west to east): Monaco, France, Switzerland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Germany, Austria and Slovenia.
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Atrebates
The Atrebates (Gaulish: *Atrebatis, 'dwellers, land-owners, possessors of the soil') were a Belgic tribe of the Iron Age and the Roman period, originally dwelling in the Artois region.
Austria
Austria, formally the Republic of Austria, is a landlocked country in Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps.
Bernina Pass
The Bernina Pass (el..) (Passo del Bernina) is a high mountain pass in the Bernina Range of the Alps, in the canton of Graubünden (Grisons) in eastern Switzerland.
Bernina Range
The Bernina Range is a mountain range in the Alps of eastern Switzerland and northern Italy.
Black Sea
The Black Sea is a marginal mediterranean sea lying between Europe and Asia, east of the Balkans, south of the East European Plain, west of the Caucasus, and north of Anatolia.
Chiavenna
Chiavenna (Ciavèna; Clavenna; Clavenna or Claven; archaic Cläven or Kleven) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Sondrio in the northern Italian region of Lombardy.
Chur
Chur ((locally) or; Coira; Cuera; Cuoira; Cuira; Coira; Cuera or Cuira; Coire)CVRIA, CVRIA RHAETORVM and CVRIA RAETORVM.
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Collins English Dictionary
The Collins English Dictionary is a printed and online dictionary of English.
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Como
Como (Comasco, Cómm or Cùmm; Novum Comum) is a city and comune (municipality) in Lombardy, Italy.
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Danube
The Danube (see also other names) is the second-longest river in Europe, after the Volga in Russia.
Davos
Davos (or; help; Old Tavate) is an Alpine resort town and a municipality in the Prättigau/Davos Region in the canton of Graubünden, Switzerland.
Eastern Alps
The Eastern Alps are usually defined as the area east of a line from Lake Constance and the Alpine Rhine valley, up to the Splügen Pass at the Alpine divide, and down the Liro River to Lake Como in the south.
Elevation
The elevation of a geographic ''location'' is its height above or below a fixed reference point, most commonly a reference geoid, a mathematical model of the Earth's sea level as an equipotential gravitational surface (see Geodetic datum § Vertical datum).
Engadin
The Engadin or Engadine (help;This is the name in the two Romansh idioms that are spoken in the Engadin, Vallader and Puter, as well as in Sursilvan and Rumantsch Grischun. In Surmiran, the name is Nagiadegna, and in Sutsilvan, it is Gidegna. help; Engadina; Engadine) is a long high Alpine valley region in the eastern Swiss Alps in the canton of Graubünden in southeasternmost Switzerland with about 25,000 inhabitants. Engadin and Engadin are regions of Switzerland and valleys of the Alps.
Engadin Skimarathon
The Engadin Skimarathon is an annual cross-country skiing race (ski marathon) held on the second Sunday of March in the upper Engadine valley (Switzerland), between Maloja and S-chanf.
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Engadine Line
The Engadine Line is an over long strike-slip fault in the Swiss canton of Graubünden, which extends into Italy and Austria.
Ethnonym
An ethnonym is a name applied to a given ethnic group.
Filisur
Filisur is an Alpine village and former municipality in the Albula Region in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland.
Flaz
The Flaz is a river in the Swiss region of Engadin.
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Flüela Pass
The Flüela Pass (Flüelapass, Pass dal Flüela, elevation) is a high mountain pass of the Swiss Alps in Graubünden.
Folk etymology
Folk etymology – also known as (generative) popular etymology, analogical reformation, (morphological) reanalysis and etymological reinterpretation – is a change in a word or phrase resulting from the replacement of an unfamiliar form by a more familiar one through popular usage.
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Forbes
Forbes is an American business magazine founded by B. C. Forbes in 1917 and owned by Hong Kong-based investment group Integrated Whale Media Investments since 2014.
Fuorn Pass
Fuorn Pass or Ofen Pass (Romansh: Pass dal Fuorn, Ofenpass, Passo del Forno) (el. 2149 m.) is a high alpine mountain pass in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland.
Gelgia (river)
Gelgia (Romansh, Julia) is a river in the Grisons canton, eastern Switzerland.
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Grisons
The Grisons or Graubünden,Names include.
HarperCollins
HarperCollins Publishers LLC is a British-American publishing company that is considered to be one of the "Big Five" English-language publishers, along with Penguin Random House, Hachette, Macmillan, and Simon & Schuster.
Inn (river)
The Inn (Aenus; En) is a river in Switzerland, Austria and Germany.
Innsbruck
Innsbruck (Austro-Bavarian) is the capital of Tyrol and the fifth-largest city in Austria.
Ischgl
Ischgl is a town in the Paznaun valley in the Austrian state of Tyrol.
Italy
Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern and Western Europe.
Julier Pass
The Julier Pass (Romansh: Pass dal Güglia, German: Julierpass, Italian Passo del Giulia) (el. 2284 m) is a mountain pass in Switzerland, in the Albula Alps.
Klosters
Klosters is a Swiss village in the Prättigau, politically part of the municipality of Klosters-Serneus, which belongs to the political district Prättigau/Davos in the canton of Grisons.
Lake
A lake is an often naturally occurring, relatively large and fixed body of water on or near the Earth's surface.
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Lake Sils
Lake Sils (German Silsersee, Romansh: Lej da Segl) is a lake in the Upper Engadine valley, Grisons, Switzerland.
Lake Silvaplana
Lake Silvaplana (Silvaplanersee; Lej da Silvaplauna) is a lake in the Upper-Engadine valley of Grisons, Switzerland.
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Lake St. Moritz
Lake St.
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Landeck
Landeck is a city in the Austrian state of Tyrol, the capital of the district of Landeck.
Loanword
A loanword (also a loan word, loan-word) is a word at least partly assimilated from one language (the donor language) into another language (the recipient or target language), through the process of borrowing.
Lugano
Lugano (Lügán) is a city and municipality within the Lugano District in the canton of Ticino, Switzerland.
Lunghin Pass
Lunghin Pass is a mountain pass (2645 m) and a triple watershed near Piz Lunghin in the Swiss canton of Graubünden.
Maloja Pass
Maloja Pass (Italian: Passo del Maloja, German: Malojapass) (1815m a.s.l.) is a high mountain pass in the Swiss Alps in the canton of Graubünden, linking the Engadine with the Val Bregaglia, still in Switzerland and Chiavenna in Italy.
Maloja, Switzerland
Maloja (Malögia) is a village in the Swiss canton of Grisons.
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Mals
Mals (Malles Venosta) is a comune (municipality) and a village in South Tyrol in northern Italy, located about northwest of Bolzano, on the border with Switzerland and Austria.
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Mediterranean Sea
The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa, on the east by the Levant in West Asia, and on the west almost by the Morocco–Spain border.
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Mera (Lake Como)
Villa di Chiavenna, Chiavenna, Menarola, Gordona, Novate Mezzola,Verceia, Dubino, Sorico, Gera Lario in Italia--> The Mera (Maira) is a river in Switzerland and Italy.
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Mountain pass
A mountain pass is a navigable route through a mountain range or over a ridge.
North Sea
The North Sea lies between Great Britain, Denmark, Norway, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and France.
Passau
Passau (Båssa) is a city in Lower Bavaria, Germany.
Pfunds
Pfunds is a municipality in the district of Landeck in the Austrian state of Tyrol located 19.7 km south of the city of Landeck and 5 km north of the border to Switzerland.
Piz Bernina
Piz Bernina (Romansh, Pizzo Bernina) is the highest mountain in the Eastern Alps, the highest point of the Bernina Range, and the highest peak in the Rhaetian Alps.
Piz Corvatsch
Piz Corvatsch is a mountain in the Bernina Range of the Alps, overlooking Lake Sils and Lake Silvaplana in the Engadin region of the canton of Graubünden.
Piz Nair
Piz Nair is a mountain of the Albula Alps in Switzerland, overlooking St. Moritz in the canton of Graubünden.
Po (river)
The Po is the longest river in Italy.
Pontresina
Pontresina (Puntraschigna) is a municipality in the Maloja Region in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland.
PostBus Switzerland
PostAuto Switzerland, PostBus Ltd. (known as PostAuto Schweiz in Swiss Standard German (PostAuto AG), CarPostal Suisse in Swiss French (CarPostal S.A.), AutoPostale Svizzera in Swiss Italian (AutoPostale S.A.), and AutoDaPosta Svizra in Romansh (AutoDaPosta S.A.) is a subsidiary company of the Swiss Post, which provides regional and rural bus services throughout Switzerland, and also in France, Germany, and Liechtenstein.
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Prättigau
The Prättigau is a geographical region in the cantons of Grisons, Switzerland. Engadin and Prättigau are regions of Switzerland and valleys of the Alps.
Putèr
Puter (also spelled Putèr; puter) is a variety of Romansh spoken in the Engadin valley in Graubünden, which is in the southeastern part of Switzerland.
Rhaetian Railway
The Rhaetian Railway (Rhätische Bahn; Ferrovia retica; Viafier retica), abbreviated RhB, is a Swiss transport company that owns the largest network of all private railway operators in Switzerland.
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Rhine
--> The Rhine is one of the major European rivers.
Romansh language
Romansh is a Gallo-Romance language spoken predominantly in the Swiss canton of the Grisons (Graubünden).
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S-chanf
S-chanf (Scanfs; Scanevo) is a municipality in the Maloja Region in the Swiss canton of Graubünden.
Samedan
Samedan is a town and municipality in the Maloja Region in the Swiss canton of Grisons.
Samedan Airport
Samedan Airport, also known as Engadin Airport, is a regional airport in Samedan in the Engadin valley of Switzerland, 5 km from St. Moritz.
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Samnaun
Samnaun (Samignun) is a high Alpine village and a valley at the eastern end of Switzerland and a municipality in the Engiadina Bassa/Val Müstair Region in the Swiss canton of Graubünden.
Scuol
Scuol is a municipality in the Engiadina Bassa/Val Müstair Region in the Swiss canton of Grisons.
Sgraffito
Sgraffito (sgraffiti) is a technique either of wall decor, produced by applying layers of plaster tinted in contrasting colours to a moistened surface, or in pottery, by applying to an unfired ceramic body two successive layers of contrasting slip or glaze, and then in either case scratching so as to reveal parts of the underlying layer.
Springer Nature
Springer Nature or the Springer Nature Group is a German-British academic publishing company created by the May 2015 merger of Springer Science+Business Media and Holtzbrinck Publishing Group's Nature Publishing Group, Palgrave Macmillan, and Macmillan Education.
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St. Moritz
St.
Surmiran dialect
Surmiran (Surmiran, Vallader, Sutsilvan, Rumantsch Grischun: surmiran; Puter: surmiraun) is a dialect of the Romansh language.
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Sursilvan
Sursilvan (also romontsch sursilvan; Sursilvan, Vallader, Surmiran, Sutsilvan, and Rumantsch Grischun: sursilvan; Puter: sursilvaun) is a group of dialects of the Romansh language spoken in the Swiss district of Surselva.
Susch
Susch (formally Süs) is a village and former municipality in the district of Inn in the Swiss canton of Graubünden.
Swiss Alps
The Alpine region of Switzerland, conventionally referred to as the Swiss Alps, represents a major natural feature of the country and is, along with the Swiss Plateau and the Swiss portion of the Jura Mountains, one of its three main physiographic regions. Engadin and Swiss Alps are regions of Switzerland.
Swiss National Park
The Swiss National Park (Parc Naziunal Svizzer; Schweizerischer Nationalpark; Parco Nazionale Svizzero; Parc National Suisse) is located in the Western Rhaetian Alps, in eastern Switzerland.
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Swiss Standard German
Swiss Standard German (SSG; Schweizer Standarddeutsch), or Swiss High German (Schweizer Hochdeutsch or Schweizerhochdeutsch), referred to by the Swiss as Schriftdeutsch, or Hochdeutsch, is the written form of one of four official languages in Switzerland, besides French, Italian, and Romansh.
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Swisstopo
Swisstopo is the official name for the Swiss Federal Office of Topography (in German: Bundesamt für Landestopografie; French: Office fédéral de topographie; Italian: Ufficio federale di topografia; Romansh: Uffizi federal da topografia), Switzerland's national mapping agency.
Switzerland
Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a landlocked country located in west-central Europe.
Thusis
Thusis (Tosana, Romansh: Tusàn) is a municipality in the Viamala Region in the Swiss canton of Graubünden.
Tirano
Tirano (Tiran; Thiran) is a town and comune (municipality) in Valtellina, located in the province of Sondrio, Lombardy (northern Italy).
Tyrol (federal state)
Tyrol (Tirol; Tirolo) is an Austrian federal state.
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Val Bregaglia
The Val Bregaglia (Val Bregaja; Bergell,; Val Bregaglia) is an alpine valley of Switzerland and Italy at the base of which runs the river Mera (Maira in Switzerland). Engadin and val Bregaglia are valleys of the Alps.
Val Müstair
Val Müstair (Münstertal) is a municipality in the Engiadina Bassa/Val Müstair Region in the Swiss canton of Graubünden. Engadin and Val Müstair are valleys of the Alps.
Val Poschiavo
Val Poschiavo (Pus'ciaf, Puschlav) is a valley in the southern, Italian-speaking part of the Swiss canton of the Grisons. Engadin and val Poschiavo are regions of Switzerland and valleys of the Alps.
Val Roseg
The Val Roseg is a valley of the Swiss Alps, located on the north side of the Bernina Range in the canton of Graubünden (Engadin). Engadin and val Roseg are valleys of the Alps.
Vallader dialect
Vallader (Vallader, Sursilvan, Puter, Surmiran, and Rumantsch Grischun: vallader; Sutsilvan: valader) is a variety of the Romansh language spoken in the Lower Engadine valley (Engiadina Bassa) of southeast Switzerland, between Martina and Zernez.
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Vereina Tunnel
The Vereina Tunnel is a railway tunnel, and the principal part of the Vereina railway line, in the canton of Graubünden in eastern Switzerland.
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Vinschgau
The Vinschgau, Vintschgau or Vinschgau Valley (Val Venosta; Vnuost; Val Venuesta; medieval toponym: Finsgowe) is the upper part of the Adige or Etsch river valley, in the western part of the province of South Tyrol, Italy.
Winter sports
Winter sports or winter activities are competitive sports or non-competitive recreational activities which are played on snow or ice.
Zams
Zams is a municipality in the district of Landeck in the Austrian state of Tyrol.
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Zernez
Zernez is a village and a municipality in the Engiadina Bassa/Val Müstair Region in the Swiss canton of Graubünden.
Zuoz
Zuoz is a municipality in the Maloja Region in the Swiss canton of Graubünden.
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Zurich
Zurich (Zürich) is the largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zurich.
1928 Winter Olympics
The 1928 Winter Olympics, officially known as the II Olympic Winter Games (IIes Jeux olympiques d'hiver; II.; II Giochi olimpici invernali; II Gieus olimpics d'enviern) and commonly known as St.
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1948 Winter Olympics
The 1948 Winter Olympics, officially known as the V Olympic Winter Games (V.; Ves Jeux olympiques d'hiver; V Giochi olimpici invernali; V Gieus olimpics d'enviern) and commonly known as St.
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See also
Regions of Switzerland
- Üechtland
- Appenzell
- Arpitania
- Bernese Jura
- Bernese Oberland
- Cadi (Surselva)
- Central Switzerland
- Eastern Switzerland
- Engadin
- Espace Mittelland
- Fricktal
- German-speaking Switzerland
- Glatt Valley
- Goldcoast (Switzerland)
- Gros-de-Vaud
- Heinzenberg GR
- Italian Grisons
- Jungfrau Region
- Lake Geneva region
- Languages of Switzerland
- Limmat Valley
- Lumnezia
- Metropolitan areas of Switzerland
- NUTS statistical regions of Switzerland
- Northwestern Switzerland
- Oberaargau
- Onsernone Valley
- Pfannenstiel (Zürich)
- Prättigau
- Regions of the canton of Bern
- Rheinwald
- Romandy
- Seeland (Switzerland)
- Sihl Valley
- Swiss Alps
- Swiss Jura
- Swiss Plateau
- Töss Valley
- Toggenburg
- Unterwalden
- Val Poschiavo
- Val d'Illiez
- Val da Camp
- Valle Maggia
- Valle Verzasca
- Zürcher Oberland
- Zimmerberg
- Zurich Metropolitan Area
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engadin
Also known as Engadin valley, Engadina, Engadine Valley, Lower Engadin, Lower Engadine, Lower-Engadin, Ober Engadin, Oberengadin, The Engadine, Unter Engadin, Unterengadin, Upper Engadine.
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