Rimella (Walser German: Remmalju, Piedmontese: Rimela) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Vercelli in the Italian region Piedmont, located about northeast of Turin and about northwest of Vercelli.
Rimella borders the following municipalities: Bannio Anzino, Calasca-Castiglione, Cravagliana, Fobello, and Valstrona.
Population
Founded in 1255 by Walser emigrants from Visperterminen in the now Swiss Valais, its population is traditionally Alemannic German speaking. From 1871 on, when Rimella had a population of 1327, the number of inhabitants has dramatically diminished. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 129.
References
Sources
- Marco Bauen: Sprachgemischter Mundartausdruck in Rimella (Valsesia, Piemaont). Zur Syntax eines südwalserischen Dialekts im Spannungsfeld der italienischen Landes- und Kultursprache, Berne and Stuttgart 1978. â Translated into Italian in 1999 by Eugenio Vasina.
- Paolo Sibilla: Una comunitÃÂ Walser delle Alpi. Strutture tradizionali e processi culturali, Florence 1980.
- Centro Studi Walser (Ed.): Ts Remmaljertittschu. Vocabolario Italiano â Tittschu, Turin 1995. Vocabolario Tittschu â Italiano, Borgosesia 2005.
- Centro Studi Walser (Ed.): Storia di Rimella in Valsesia, Ravenna 2004.
- Silke La Rose: Walser Recht ennetbirgen â Ein Beitrag zu Ursprung und Verlaufsbedingungen der Walserwanderung. Part II: Rimella und Alagna, in: Wir Walser 1 (2006) 7âÂÂ17.
- Atlante Toponomastico del Piemonte Montano Nr. 31: Rimella. Ed. by the UniversitÃÂ degli Studi di Torino and the Region of Piedmont. Turin 2007.
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