Ilanz
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| Former municipality of Switzerland | ||
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| Coordinates: 46°46′N 9°12′E / 46.767°N 9.200°ECoordinates: 46°46′N 9°12′E / 46.767°N 9.200°E | ||
| Country | Switzerland | |
| Canton | Graubünden | |
| District | Surselva | |
| Government | ||
| • Mayor |
Gemeindepräsident/President (list) Aurelio Casanova (as of 2016) |
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| Area | ||
| • Total | 4.50 km2 (1.74 sq mi) | |
| Elevation (both churches) | 699 m (2,293 ft) | |
| Population (Dec 2011) | ||
| • Total | 2,327 | |
| • Density | 520/km2 (1,300/sq mi) | |
| Postal code | 7130 | |
| SFOS number | 3574 | |
| Surrounded by | Castrisch, Flond, Luven, Rueun, Ruschein, Schluein, Schnaus, Sevgein | |
| Website |
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Ilanz (Romansh: Glion) is a former municipality in the district of Surselva in the Swiss canton of Graubünden. The former municipality Ilanz was congruent with the town Ilanz, which is known now as Ilanz/Glion, as of 1 January 2014. On 1 January 1978 the former municipality of Strada merged into the new municipality of Ilanz. On 1 January 2014 the municipality of Ilanz and the surrounding municipalities Castrisch, Ladir, Luven, Pitasch, Riein, Ruschein, Schnaus, Sevgein, Duvin, Pigniu, Rueun and Siat merged into the new municipality of "Ilanz/Glion."
Ilanz is first mentioned in 765 as "Iliande." Ilanz became the capital of the newly formed Grey League in 1395. The Grey League was the second of Three Leagues which eventually formed canton Graubünden. Johannes von Ilanz, the Abbott of Disentis, was among the three nobles instrumental in creating this "eternal alliance."
Ilanz has a special place in the history of the Protestant Reformation. In the 1520s, the Diet of Ilanz declared that citizens of the Three Leagues should be free to choose between Catholicism and the Protestant forms of Christianity then rising to the fore. The so-called “Ilanz Reformation” of 1526 resulted in another systemic shock to the Catholic Church (which had been under philosophical attack since Zurich in 1523, when Protestantism first rose to primacy in a major population center). These and other events resulted in a counter-reformation within the Swiss Confederation that reversed many of the gains of the Reformation in Switzerland.
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