See also:

• BELLINZONA (Ger. Bellenz)

BELLINZONA (Ger. Bellenz)  , the See also:

• POLITICAL

political See also:

• CAPITAL (i.e. capital stock or fund)
• CAPITAL (Lat. caput, head)

capital of the Swiss See also:

• CANTON
• CANTON (borrowed from the Ital. cantone, a corner or angle)
• CANTON (more correctly KWANG-CHOW Fu)
• CANTON, JOHN (1718-1772)

canton of See also:

• TESSIN, CARL GUSTAF, COUNT (1695-1770)

Tessin or See also:

• TICINO (Fr. and Ger. Tessin)
• TICINO (Ger. Tessin, anc. Ticinus)

Ticino . It is 105 M. from See also:

• LUCERNE
• LUCERNE (Ger. Luzern; Ital. Lucerne)
• LUCERNE, LAKE OF
• LUCERNE, PURPLE MEDICK

Lucerne by the St Gotthard railway, 19 m. from See also:

• LUGANO (Ger. Lauis)
• LUGANO, LAKE OF (also called CERESIO)

Lugano and 14 M. from See also:

• LOCARNO (Ger. Luggarus)

Locarno at the See also:

• HEAD (in 0. Eng. heafad; the word is common to Teutonic languages; cf. Dutch hoofd, Ger. Haupt, generally taken to be in origin connected with Lat. caput, Gr. KerbOvi7)
• HEAD, SIR EDMUND WALKER, BART
• HEAD, SIR FRANCIS BOND, BART

head of the Lago See also:

• MAGGIORE, LAGO (Lacus Verbanus of the Romans; Fr. Lac Majeur; Ger. Langensee)

Maggiore, these two towns having been till 1881 capitals of the canton jointly with See also:

• BELLINZONA (Ger. Bellenz)

Bellinzona . The old See also:

• TOWN

town is built on some hills, on the See also:

• LEFT

left See also:

• BANK

bank of the Tessin or Ticino See also:

• RIVER

river, and a little below the junction of the See also:

• MAIN (from the Aryan root which appears in " may " and " might," and Lat. magnus, great)
• MAIN (Lat. Moenus)

main Ticino valley (the Val Leventina) with that of Mesocco . It thus blocked the road from See also:

• GERMANY
• GERMANY (Ger. Deutschland)

Germany to See also:

• ITALY
• ITALY (Italia)

Italy, while a See also:

• GREAT

great See also:

• WALL (O. Eng. weal, weall, Mid. Eng. wal, wane, adapted from Lat. vallum, rampart; the original O. Eng. word for a wall was wag or tenth)
• WALL, RICHARD (1694-1778)

wall was built from the town to the river bank . Bellinzona still possesses three picturesque castles (restored in See also:

• MODERN

modern times), dating in their See also:

• PRESENT

present See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form from the 15th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century . They belonged for several centuries to the three Swiss cantons which were masters of the town . The most See also:

• WESTERLY

westerly, See also:

• CASTELLO, BERNARDO (1557—1629)
• CASTELLO, GIOVANNI BATTISTA (1500 ?–1569 ?)
• CASTELLO, VALERIO (1625-1659)

Castello Grande or of See also:

• SAN

San Michele, belonged to See also:

• URI

Uri; the central See also:

• CASTLE
• CASTLE (Lat. castellum, a fort, diminutive of castra, a camp; Fr. chateau and chdtel)

castle, that of Montebello, was the See also:

• PROPERTY

property of See also:

• SCHWYZ
• SCHWYZ (modern spelling Schwiz)

Schwyz; while the most easterly castle, that of Sasso Corbaro, was in the hands of See also:

• UNTERWALDEN

Unterwalden . The 13th-century See also:

• CHURCH
• CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
• CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
• CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
• CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
• CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)

church of San Biagio (Blaise) has a remarkable 14th-century See also:

• FRESCO (Ital. for cool, " fresh ")

fresco, while the collegiate church of San Stefano See also:

• DATES

dates from the 16th century . In 1900 the See also:

• POPULATION (Lat. populus, people; populare, to populate)

population of Bellinzona was 4949, practically all Romanists and See also:

• ITALIAN

Italian-speaking . Possibly Bellinzona is of See also:

• ROMAN

Roman origin, but it is first mentioned in 590 . It played a considerable See also:

• PART

part in the See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early See also:

• HISTORY

history of See also:

• LOMBARDY

Lombardy, being a See also:

• KEY
• KEY (in O. Eng. tang; the ultimate origin of the word is unknown; it appears only in Old Frisian kei of other Teutonic languages; until the end of the 17th century the pronunciation was kay, as in other words in O. Eng. ending in aeg; cf. daeg, day; clang
• KEY (the phraseograms being indicated by hyphens)
• KEY, SIR ASTLEY COOPER (1821-1888)
• KEY, THOMAS HEWITT (1799-1875)

key to several Alpine passes . In the 8th century it belonged to the See also:

• BISHOP (A.S. bisceop, from Lat. episcopus, Gr. irio-Korros, " overlooker " or " overseer ")
• BISHOP, ISABELLA (1832-1904)
• BISHOP, SIR HENRY ROWLEY (1786-1855)

bishop of See also:

• COMO (anc. Comum)
• COMO, LAKE OF (the Lacus Larius of the Romans, and so sometimes called LARIO to the present day, though in the 4th century it is already termed Lacus Comacinus)

Como, while in the 13th and 14th centuries it was tossed to and fro between the cities of See also:

• MILAN
• MILAN (Ital. Milano, Ger. Mailand, anc. Mediolanum, q.v.)

Milan and Como .

In 1402 it was taken from Milan by See also:

• ALBERT
• ALBERT (1490'1545)
• ALBERT (149o-1568)
• ALBERT (1522–1557)
• ALBERT (FRANCIS CHARLES AUGUSTUS ALBERT EMMANUEL) (1819—1861)
• ALBERT (FRIEDRICH RUDOLF ALBRECHT)
• ALBERT, FREDERICK AUGUSTUS
• ALBERT, MADAME (c. 2805—2846)

Albert von See also:

• SAX, ANTOINE JOSEPH

Sax, See also:

• LORD
• LORD (O. Eng. hldford, i.e. hldfweard, the warder or keeper of bread, hlIf, loaf; the word is not represented in any other Teutonic language)
• LORD, JOHN (1810-1894)

lord of the Val Mesocco, who in 1419 sold it to Uri and Obwalden, which, however, lost it to Milan in 1422 after the See also:

• BATTLE

battle of Arbedo . In 1499 (like the See also:

• REST (O. Eng. rest, reste, bed, cognate with other Teutonic forms, e.g. Ger. Rast, Riiste, rest, and probably Gothic Rasta, league, i.e. resting or stopping place)

rest of the Milanese) it was occupied by the See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French, but in 1500 it was taken by Uri . In 1503 the French See also:

• KING
• KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
• KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
• KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
• KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
• KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
• KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
• KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
• KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
• KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
• KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
• KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)

king ceded it to Uri, Schwyz and Unterwalden, which henceforth ruled it very harshly through their bailiffs till 1798 . At that date it became the capital of the canton Bellinzona of the Helvetic See also:

• REPUBLIC (Lat. respublica, a commonweal or common-wealth)

republic, but in 1803 it was See also:

• UNITED

united to the newly-formed canton of Tessin . (W . A . B .