Grengiols
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Grengiols () is a municipality in the district of Raron in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.
Key facts
- Swiss town.subject_name
- Grengiols
- Swiss town.municipality_type
- municipality
- Swiss town.imagepath_coa
- CHE Grengiols COA.svg
- Swiss town.imagepath_flag
- CHE Grengiols Flag.svg
- Swiss town.canton
- Valais
- Swiss town.iso code region
- CH-VS
- Swiss town.district
- Raron
- Swiss town.postal_code
- 3993
- Swiss town.municipality_code
- 6177
- Swiss town.area
- 58.5
- Swiss town.elevation
- 995
- Swiss town.population
- 497
- Swiss town.populationof
- December 2002
- Swiss town.popofyear
- 2002
- Swiss town.website
- grengiols.ch
- Swiss town.neighboring_municipalities
- Baceno (IT-VB), Betten, Binn, Bister, Ernen, Filet, Lax, Martisberg, Ried-Brig, Termen, Varzo (IT-VB)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- village
- Official name
- Grengiols
- Country
- Switzerland
- Located in
- Östlich Raron District
- Population
- 424
- Area
- 58.52
- Elevation
- 984
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Body of water
- Binna
- Shares border with
- Varzo
- Official website
- www.grengiols.ch
- Image
- Grengiols.JPG
- Dialing code
- 027
- Licence plate code
- VS
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- Commons category
- Grengiols
- postal code
- 3993
- P8168
- Mittelzentrum Artern
- external data available at URL
- geo.ld.admin.ch/boundaries/municipality/6177
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Encyclopedic overview
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- History
- Geography
- Coat of arms
- Demographics
- Sights
- Politics
- Economy
- Religion
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- External links
Grengiols () is a municipality in the district of Raron in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.
==History== Grengiols is first mentioned in 1052 as Graneirolis. In 1228 it was mentioned as Griniruel and in 1297 as Graniols. The name probably comes from the Latin word graneirolas meaning a small granary.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Grengiols” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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