Val Bregaglia
The Val Bregaglia (
Most of the valley falls within the Swiss district of
The Swiss part of the valley is inhabited by the descendants of Italian
Geography
The valley begins at the
In this valley sources of three important basins have their origin: the Rhine (through the Avers Rhine), which runs to the North Sea, the Inn, which runs to the Danube (near Passau), and the rivers Mera and Adda, which run to the Po.
The Bregaglia Range is the group of mountains to the south of the valley.
Name
Some scholars, including E. Dubois and James S. Reid, asserts the valley takes its name from the Bergalei Alpine tribe that inhabited it, a name otherwise lost except for a mention on Tabula clesiana, a Roman plate.[4][5] On the other hand, 18th-century documents derive modern Lombard Bregaglia from Middle Latin Pregallia ("pre-Gaul, anterior Gaul"). The Latin name Pregallia was used for the valley from at least the 13th century.[6]
References
- ^ Elsbeth Brun-Enderlin, July/August 2002, Seit 450 Jahren ist das Bergell protestantisch: Grosse Entscheidung der armen Leute[permanent dead link]. Bündner Kirchenbote, no. 7. Retrieved 2008-10-22. (in German)
- ^ Bergell in German, French and Italian in the online Historical Dictionary of Switzerland, 2005-11-15.
- ^ "Albigna Dam and cable car - Bregaglia Engadin Turismo". Archived from the original on 2020-09-21. Retrieved 2019-11-22.
- ^ E. Dubois in Revue de législation ancienne et moderne française et étrangère (1872), p. 28
- ^ The Municipalities of the Roman Empire By James S. Reid page 166
- ^ Egbert Friedrich von Mülinen, Prodromus: einer schweizerischen Historiographie (1874), p. 106.
External links
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