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Septimer Pass

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was the one placed at the pass itself, mentioned in 831. It was mentioned in documents for the following millennium, even though it was abandoned in the tenth century and rebuilt at the beginning of the eleventh. (The hospice was later abandoned for good in 1778.) During the
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to Milan, which diverted merchants from going through Chur. The pass further lost importance after the construction of roads over the
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for traveling emperors. The nearest inhabited localities on the approaches of the Septimer Pass are
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Hyde, Walter Woodburn (1937). "The Alpine Passes in Nature and History".
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the Septimer Pass was crucial to the temporal power of the
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Elevation
Switzerland
Range
Alps
Coordinates
46°25.2′N 09°38.28′E / 46.4200°N 9.63800°E / 46.4200; 9.63800
Septimer Pass is located in Switzerland
mountain pass
canton
Graubünden
Swiss Alps
Bregaglia
Surses
Oberhalbstein
Albula Alps
Middle Ages
Great St. Bernard
Brenner
Alps
Casaccia
Bivio
Romans
Milan
Augsburg
Splügen Pass
Hinterrhein
hospice
Middle Ages
Bishopric of Chur

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