Graubunden

Graubunden or Grisons is the biggest and easternmost canton of Switzerland. It has worldwide borders with Italy, Austria and Liechtenstein. Its German name, Graubunden, translates because the "Grey Leagues", regarding the canton's beginning in 3 local alliances, the League of God's House, the Grey League, and the League of the Ten Jurisdictions. Grisons is likewise home to a few of Switzerland's ethnic corporations, whose spoken languages—Swiss German, Italian and Romansh—are all local to the canton. It is the only formally trilingual canton and the simplest canton where the Romansh language has official popularity.

Most of the lands of the canton were once a part of a Roman province referred to as Raetia, which became set up in 15 BC. The modern-day capital of Grisons, Chur, was referred to as Curia in Roman instances. The location later was a part of the lands of the diocese of Chur. In 1367 the League of God's House became founded to withstand the growing energy of the Bishop of Chur. This become accompanied via the established order of the Grey League, from time to time called Oberbund, in 1395 inside the Upper Rhine valley. The call Grey League is derived from the homespun grey garments worn via the people and changed into used exclusively after sixteen March 1424.