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    Maloja District (Romansh: District da Malögia, Italian: Distretto di Maloja) is a former administrative district in the canton of Graubünden (or Grigioni)...
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  • Maloja (Italian: Maloggia) may refer to: Maloja District, an administrative district in the Swiss canton of Graubünden Maloja Palace, a hotel in the Swiss...
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    Maloja Region is one of the eleven administrative districts in the canton of Grisons in Switzerland. It has an area of 973.65 square kilometers (375.93 sq mi)...
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    municipality Stampa. It is now part of the municipality of Bregaglia in the Maloja district of the Swiss canton Graubünden, Switzerland. Alberto Giacometti, 1901...
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    Jörg Jenatsch (category People from Maloja District)
    Jörg Jenatsch, also called Jürg or Georg Jenatsch (1596 – 24 January 1639), was a Swiss political leader during the Thirty Years' War, one of the most...
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  • Stampa is a former municipality in the Maloja district of the Swiss canton, Graubünden. It is now part of the municipality of Bregaglia. Stampa is first...
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  • Ursina Lardi (category People from Maloja District)
    Ursina Lardi (born 19 December 1970, in Samedan) is a Swiss actress, best known for playing the baroness, Marie-Louise in The White Ribbon. Lardi studied...
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    Diego Giacometti (category People from Maloja District)
    Diego Giacometti (15 November 1902 – 15 July 1985) was a Swiss sculptor and designer, and the younger brother of the sculptor Alberto Giacometti. Diego...
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    Bertha Wegmann (category People from Maloja District)
    Bertha Wegmann (1847–1926) was a Danish portrait painter of Swiss ancestry. She was the first woman to hold a chair at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine...
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    Alberto Giacometti (category People from Maloja District)
    Alberto Giacometti (/ˌdʒækəˈmɛti/, US also /ˌdʒɑːk-/, Italian: [alˈbɛrto dʒakoˈmetti]; 10 October 1901 – 11 January 1966) was a Swiss sculptor, painter...
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    Giovanni Andrea Scartazzini (category People from Maloja District)
    office, where he died at the age of 63 on 10 February 1901. In Acilia, a district close to Rome, Scartazzini is honored by a street named for him, while...
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    Giovanni Giacometti (category People from Maloja District)
    of Borgonovo, a mountain village in Bergell. They spent their summers in Maloja where his friend, Segantini, had lived. He was kept busy there with numerous...
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    Florian Stoppany (category People from Maloja District)
    Florian Stoppany (6 February 1842 - 26 January 1901) was a Swiss hotelier. His enduring legacy is the Sporthotel Pontresina in Graubünden. Florian Stoppany...
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    Toni Rüttimann (category People from Maloja District)
    Toni Rüttimann (Pontresina, 21 August 1967) is a Swiss bridge builder who works in Southeast Asia and in Latin America, where he is known as Toni el Suizo...
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  • Selina Witschonke (category People from Maloja District)
    Selina Witschonke (born December 17, 1998) is a Swiss curler originally from St. Moritz. She currently plays second on Team Silvana Tirinzoni. In 2016...
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  • Gian Franco Kasper (category People from Maloja District)
    Gian Franco Kasper (24 January 1944 – 9 July 2021) was a Swiss ski official who was president of the International Ski Federation (FIS) from 1998 to 2021...
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  • Switzerland, village, part of the municipality of Bregaglia in the Maloja district of the Swiss canton Graubünden, Switzerland Borgonovo, Torricella Sicura...
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  • Andreas Rudolf von Planta (category People from Maloja District)
    Andreas Rudolf von Planta (24 April 1819 in Samedan – 19 April 1889) was a Swiss politician and President of the Swiss National Council (1865/1866). Andreas...
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  • Bruno Giacometti (category People from Maloja District)
    Bruno Giacometti (24 August 1907 – 21 March 2012) was a Swiss architect and the brother of the artists Alberto and Diego Giacometti. He was among the most...
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    Andrea Prader (category People from Maloja District)
    Andrea Prader (December 23, 1919 – June 3, 2001) was a Swiss scientist, physician, and pediatric endocrinologist. He co-discovered Prader–Willi syndrome...
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    Pontresina (Romansh: Puntraschigna) is a municipality in the Maloja Region in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland. Pontresina was first mentioned in...
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  • Werner Nold (category People from Maloja District)
    Werner Nold CM CQ (December 19, 1933 – February 28, 2024) was a Swiss-Canadian film editor, active predominantly in the cinema of Quebec. Over a 35-year...
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    (German/Italian Celerina; Romansh Schlarigna) is a municipality in the Maloja Region in the Swiss canton of Graubünden. Celerina/Schlarigna was first...
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    Zuoz (Romansh pronunciation: [tsuə̯ts] ) is a municipality in the Maloja Region in the Swiss canton of Graubünden. Zuoz is first mentioned about 840 as...
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  • Pio Parolini (category People from Maloja District)
    Pio Parolini (born February 19, 1940) is a retired Swiss professional ice hockey player who played for Zürcher SC in the National League A. He also represented...
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  • Laurent-Théodore Biett (category People from Maloja District)
    Laurent-Théodore Biett (25 July 1781 – 3 March 1840) was a Swiss-born dermatologist from Schams in the canton of Graubünden. He is chiefly remembered for...
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    Joseph Planta (librarian) (category People from Maloja District)
    Joseph Planta FRS (21 February 1744 – 3 December 1827), aka Joseph von Planta, the Principal Librarian (i.e. Director) of the British Museum for the first...
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    municipality was located in the Oberengadin sub-district of the Maloja district, after 2017 it was part of the Maloja Region. It consists of the settlements of...
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    subdistrict of the Maloja district along the Inn river and at the mouth of the Casanna pass. After 2017 it is part of the Maloja Region. It consists...
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    Aita Gasparin (category People from Maloja District)
    Aita Gasparin (born 9 February 1994 in Samedan) is a Swiss biathlete. She competed at the Biathlon World Championships 2013, and at the 2014 Winter Olympics...
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