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The Republic and Canton of Ticino or Ticino ((イタリア語:Canton Ticino) (:kanˈton tiˈtʃiːno); (ドイツ語:Tessin) (:tɛˈsiːn); see also in other languages) is the southernmost canton of Switzerland. Ticino borders the Canton of Uri to the north, Valais to the west (through the Novena Pass), Graubünden to the northeast, Italy's regions of Piedmont and Lombardy to the south and it surrounds the small Italian exclave of Campione d'Italia. Named after the Ticino river, it is the only canton where Italian is the sole official language and represents the bulk of the Italian-speaking area of Switzerland along with the southern sections of Graubünden. The land now occupied by the canton was annexed from Italian cities in the 15th century by various Swiss forces in the last Transalpine campaigns of the Old Swiss Confederacy. In the Helvetic Republic, established 1798, it was divided between the cantons of Bellinzona and Lugano, which since the formation of the Swiss Confederation five years later have been the canton's districts. ==Etymology== The name ''Ticino'' was chosen for the newly established canton in 1803, after the Ticino river which flows through it from the Nufenen Pass to Lake Maggiore.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.aet.ch/comunicati_det.html?idnews=7195 )〕 Known as ''Ticinus'' in Roman times, the river appears on the Tabula Peutingeriana as ''Ticenum''. Johann Kaspar Zeuss attributed Celtic origins to the name, tracing it to the Celtic ''tek'', itself from an Indo-European root ''tak'', meaning "melting, flowing". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ticino」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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