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    Giornico is a municipality in the district of Leventina in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland. Giornico is first mentioned around 935-94 as de Iudicibus...
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    In the Battle of Giornico (Italian: Battaglia di Giornico, dei Sassi Grossi; German: Schlacht bei Giornico) (28 December 1478) a Swiss force of 600 defeated...
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    of Triboltingen (Swabian War) Storm of Thayngen (Swabian War) Battle of Giornico (28 December 1478) Swiss illustrated chronicles Paul Ganz, The Lucerne...
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  • Circolo di Giornico Coat of arms Municipality Population (31 December 2020) Area km2 Bodio 937 6.44 Giornico 806 19.48 Personico 326 39.04 Pollegio 800...
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  • Austrian–Hungarian War (1477–88) 1478 Carinthian Peasant Revolt 1478 Battle of Giornico 1479 Battle of Guinegate 1482–1484 War of Ferrara 1484 Battle of Lochmaben...
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    Campo Tencia in the east. It is visible from the municipalities of Faido, Giornico and Chironico. The north-east face is particularly striking which rises...
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  • Matro (2,171 m) is a mountain of the Swiss Lepontine Alps, overlooking Giornico in the canton of Ticino. It lies at the southern end of the chain separating...
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  • November 1 – The Spanish Inquisition begins. December 28 – Battle of Giornico: Swiss troops defeat the Milanese. Grand Duchy of Moscow devolved from...
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    Bellinzona unsuccessfully. However Swiss pride was restored by the Battle of Giornico which followed, where a force of 600 Swiss soldiers defeated 10,000 Milanese...
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    day's march passed through Biasca, and on the evening of the 22nd reached Giornico, where the Allied General Staff spent the night. The weather continued...
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    Two more spirals, known as the "Biaschina-Loops", lead the line down to Giornico, at an altitude of 391 metres (1,283 ft). By the time the line has arrived...
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    listed a Degagna or associated farms to the greater Giornico area. It belonged to the parish of Giornico until the creation of a separate parish in 1602....
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    the Confederate rear guard defeated the Milanese army at the Battle of Giornico and drove Milan out of the Leventina valley but did not take Bellinzona...
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  • formed the village of Cavagnago which was a Degagna of the old Vicinanza of Giornico. In the Middle Ages, Cavagnago and Sobrio both worshiped at the 13th-century...
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    the Wisp Crypt of St. Nicolas Giornico, Canton Ticino Switzerland (1856) Outside the church of San Nicolo da Mira, Giornico (1856) On the East Lynn, Middleham...
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    the now abandoned village of Simbra (or Saimola) formed a Degagna in the Giornico area. During the reign of the cathedral of Milan over the three Ambrosian...
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  • the Confederate campaign of 1478, and the Swiss victory in the Battle of Giornico in 1487. In Swiss historiography, the account of the Battle of Castione...
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  • 6749 SFOS number 5081 ISO 3166 code CH-TI Surrounded by Acquarossa, Bodio, Cavagnago, Giornico, Ludiano, Semione Website www.faido.ch SFSO statistics...
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  • as Prexonego. During the Middle Ages, it belonged to the Vicinanza of Giornico. The village church of SS. Nazario e Celso was first mentioned in 1256...
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    Middle Ages. In Ticino, irrigation facilities are attested in 1296 in Giornico. Many other testimonies confirm the use of irrigation techniques in almost...
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    Collina d'Oro Comano Cugnasco-Gerra Cureglia Curio Dalpe Faido Gambarogno Giornico Gordola Grancia Gravesano Isone Lamone Lavertezzo Lavizzara Linescio Locarno...
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  • Basel-Landschaft Giez Vaud Giffers Fribourg Gilly Vaud Gimel Vaud Gingins Vaud Giornico Ticino Gipf-Oberfrick Aargau Gisikon Lucerne Giswil Obwalden Givisiez Fribourg...
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  • 8.862408 5473 Torre di Attone 710.596 140.100 46°24′11″N 8°52′37″E / 46.403136°N 8.876848°E / 46.403136; 8.876848 Unknown ISOS villaggio: Giornico...
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  • Castione Milan defeats Uri and Leventina 1478, 28 December Battle of Giornico Giornico Confederates defeat Milan 1487, 28 April Battle of Crevola Crevola...
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    but after a two weeks' siege gave up and returned home. The Battle of Giornico was for once a Swiss victory, in which a force of Uri of about 175 men...
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    Postal code(s) 6747 SFOS number 5070 ISO 3166 code CH-TI Surrounded by Anzonico, Dalpe, Faido, Frasco, Giornico, Lavizzara, Sonogno Website SFSO statistics...
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    Zug 0.02 414 m (1,358 ft) 1 m (3 ft) 100 m (330 ft) No Isola di Giornico Ticino Giornico Ticino 0.67 358 m (1,175 ft) 5 m (16 ft) ^ Yes L'île Rhone Geneva...
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  • The Cima Bianca is a mountain of the Lepontine Alps, overlooking Giornico in the canton of Ticino. On the northern side lies a small lake named Laghetto...
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    Leventina and in 1478, when Zurich men were in the van at the fight of Giornico, won by a handful of Confederates over 12,000 Milanese troops. In 1400...
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  • November 1 – The Spanish Inquisition begins. December 28 – Battle of Giornico: Swiss troops defeat the Milanese. Grand Duchy of Moscow devolved from...
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