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Montfaucon (Jura)
Montfaucon () is a municipality in the district of Franches-Montagnes in the canton of Jura in Switzerland. On 1 January 2009 the former municipality of Montfavergier merged into Montfaucon. History Montfaucon is first mentioned in 1125 as ''de Monte Falconis''. The municipality was formerly known by its German name ''Falkenberg'', however, that name is no longer used. Geography Montfaucon has an area of . Of this area, or 65.5% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 30.2% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 3.9% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.1% is either rivers or lakes and or 0.5% is unproductive land.Swiss Federal Statistical Office-Land Use Statistics 2009 data . Retrieved 25 March 2010. Of the built up area, housing and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franches-Montagnes (district)
Franches-Montagnes District (, , Franc-Comtois: ''Dichtrict des Fraintches-Montaignes'') is one of the three districts of the canton of Jura, Switzerland. Its capital is the town of Saignelégier. The French-speaking district has a population of (as of ). Municipalities Franches-Montagnes contains a total of 12 municipalities: Mergers * In 2009 Montfavergier merged into Montfaucon and Le Peuchapatte merged into Muriaux. At the same time, Goumois and Les Pommerats merged into Saignelégier. Also in 2009, Epauvillers and Epiquerez merged into Clos du Doubs of the Porrentruy District.Amtliches Gemeindeverzeichnis der Schweiz published by the Swiss Federal Statistical Office accessed 14 January 2010 * In 2023 |
Les Breuleux
Les Breuleux () is a municipality in the district of Franches-Montagnes in the canton of Jura in Switzerland. On 1 January 2023 the former municipality of La Chaux-des-Breuleux merged to form the municipality of Les Breuleux. History Les Breuleux is first mentioned in 1429 as ''Les Bruilluit''. Geography Les Breuleux has an area of . Of this area, or 62.2% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 30.2% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 7.7% is settled (buildings or roads) and or 0.1% is unproductive land.Swiss Federal Statistical Office-Land Use Statistics 2009 data accessed 25 March 2010 Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 1.1% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 4.0% and transportation infrastruct ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2007 Swiss Federal Election
Elections to the Swiss Federal Assembly, the federal parliament of Switzerland, were held on Sunday, 21 October 2007. In a few cantons, a second round of the elections to the Council of States was held on 11 November, 18 November, and 25 November 2007. For the 48th legislative term of the federal parliament (2007–2011), voters in 26 cantons elected all 200 members of the National Council as well as 43 out of 46 members of the Council of States. The other three members of the Council of States for that term of service were elected at an earlier date.The date of the election of the members of the Council of States is a matter of cantonal law. 24 cantons have chosen to let the elections coincide with the federally regulated National Council elections. Two cantons are electing their members of the Council of States at an earlier date: Zug reelected its incumbents Peter Bieri and Rolf Schweiger on 29 October 2006, while Appenzell Innerrhoden elected Ivo Bischofsberger as its on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spanish Language
Spanish ( or , Castilian) is a Romance languages, Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from colloquial Latin spoken on the Iberian peninsula. Today, it is a world language, global language with more than 500 million native speakers, mainly in the Americas and Spain. Spanish is the official language of List of countries where Spanish is an official language, 20 countries. It is the world's list of languages by number of native speakers, second-most spoken native language after Mandarin Chinese; the world's list of languages by total number of speakers, fourth-most spoken language overall after English language, English, Mandarin Chinese, and Hindustani language, Hindustani (Hindi-Urdu); and the world's most widely spoken Romance languages, Romance language. The largest population of native speakers is in Mexico. Spanish is part of the Iberian Romance languages, Ibero-Romance group of languages, which evolved from several dialects of Vulgar Latin in I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German Language
German ( ) is a West Germanic languages, West Germanic language mainly spoken in Central Europe. It is the most widely spoken and Official language, official or co-official language in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and the Italy, Italian province of South Tyrol. It is also a co-official language of Luxembourg and German-speaking Community of Belgium, Belgium, as well as a national language in Namibia. Outside Germany, it is also spoken by German communities in France (Bas-Rhin), Czech Republic (North Bohemia), Poland (Upper Silesia), Slovakia (Bratislava Region), and Hungary (Sopron). German is most similar to other languages within the West Germanic language branch, including Afrikaans, Dutch language, Dutch, English language, English, the Frisian languages, Low German, Luxembourgish, Scots language, Scots, and Yiddish. It also contains close similarities in vocabulary to some languages in the North Germanic languages, North Germanic group, such as Danish lan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Language
French ( or ) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family. It descended from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire, as did all Romance languages. French evolved from Gallo-Romance, the Latin spoken in Gaul, and more specifically in Northern Gaul. Its closest relatives are the other langues d'oïl—languages historically spoken in northern France and in southern Belgium, which French ( Francien) largely supplanted. French was also influenced by native Celtic languages of Northern Roman Gaul like Gallia Belgica and by the ( Germanic) Frankish language of the post-Roman Frankish invaders. Today, owing to France's past overseas expansion, there are numerous French-based creole languages, most notably Haitian Creole. A French-speaking person or nation may be referred to as Francophone in both English and French. French is an official language in 29 countries across multiple continents, most of which are members of the ''Organisation internationale de la Francophonie'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Montfaucon may refer to: People * Amadeus II of Montfaucon (1130–1195), lord of Montfaucon and count of Montbéliard * Bernard de Montfaucon (1655–1741), French monk, early palaeographer and archaeologist * Henry of Montfaucon (before 1318–1367), lord of Montfaucon and count of Montbéliard * Stephen of Montfaucon (1325–1397), lord of Montfaucon and count of Montbéliard Places Switzerland * Montfaucon, Switzerland, in the canton of Jura France * Montfaucon, Aisne, in the Aisne ''département'' * Montfaucon, Doubs, in the Doubs ''département'' * Montfaucon, Gard, in the Gard ''département'' * Montfaucon, Lot, in the Lot ''département'' * Montfaucon-d'Argonne, in the Meuse ''département'' * Montfaucon-en-Velay, in the Haute-Loire ''département'' * Montfaucon-Montigné, in the Maine-et-Loire ''département'' ** Canton of Montfaucon-Montigné Other uses * Battle of Montfaucon or Meuse-Argonne Offensive, World War I battle * Gibbet of Montfaucon The Gibbet of Mon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canting Arms
Canting arms are heraldic bearings that represent the bearer's name (or, less often, some attribute or function) in a visual pun or rebus. French heralds used the term (), as they would sound out the name of the armiger. Many armorial allusions require research for elucidation because of changes in language and dialect that have occurred over the past millennium. Canting arms – some in the form of rebuses – are quite common in German civic heraldry. They have also been increasingly used in the 20th century among the British royal family. When the visual representation is expressed through a rebus, this is sometimes called a ''rebus coat of arms''. An in-joke among the Society for Creative Anachronism heralds is the pun, "Heralds don't pun; they cant." Examples of canting arms Personal coats of arms A famous example of canting arms are those of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother's paternal family, the Bowes-Lyon family. The arms (pictured below) contain the bows and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coat Of Arms
A coat of arms is a heraldry, heraldic communication design, visual design on an escutcheon (heraldry), escutcheon (i.e., shield), surcoat, or tabard (the latter two being outer garments). The coat of arms on an escutcheon forms the central element of the full achievement (heraldry), heraldic achievement, which in its whole consists of a shield, supporters, a crest (heraldry), crest, and a motto. A coat of arms is traditionally unique to an individual person, family, state, organization, school or corporation. The term itself of 'coat of arms' describing in modern times just the heraldic design, originates from the description of the entire medieval chainmail 'surcoat' garment used in combat or preparation for the latter. Roll of arms, Rolls of arms are collections of many coats of arms, and since the early Modern Age centuries, they have been a source of information for public showing and tracing the membership of a nobility, noble family, and therefore its genealogy across tim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blazon
In heraldry and heraldic vexillology, a blazon is a formal description of a coat of arms, flag or similar emblem, from which the reader can reconstruct the appropriate image. The verb ''to blazon'' means to create such a description. The visual depiction of a coat of arms or flag has traditionally had considerable latitude in design, but a verbal blazon specifies the essentially distinctive elements. A coat of arms or flag is therefore primarily defined not by a picture but rather by the wording of its blazon (though in modern usage flags are often additionally and more precisely defined using geometrical specifications). ''Blazon'' is also the specialized language in which a blazon is written, and, as a verb, the act of writing such a description. ''Blazonry'' is the art, craft or practice of creating a blazon. The language employed in ''blazonry'' has its own vocabulary, grammar and syntax, which becomes essential for comprehension when blazoning a complex coat of arms. Ot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franches-Montagnes (municipality) .
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Franches-Montagnes may refer to: * Franches-Montagnes District, one of the three districts of the canton of Jura, Switzerland * Franches-Montagnes, a horse breed, also known as a Freiberger The Freiberger, also known as Franches-Montagnes, is a horse breed from Switzerland, from the Jura region, described as either a " heavy warmblood" or a "light coldblood". It was widely used as draft and pack horse in the Swiss army. It h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soubey
Soubey is a municipality in the district of Franches-Montagnes in the canton of Jura in Switzerland. History Soubey is first mentioned in 1340 as ''Subeis''. In 1369 it was mentioned as ''Subiez''. Because Soubey is among the few locations in Switzerland with no cell phone reception and few other sources of electromagnetic radiation, it has attracted – to the disapproval of its residents – numerous visitors seeking relief from electromagnetic hypersensitivity. Geography Soubey has an area of . Of this area, or 38.5% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 56.8% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 2.2% is settled (buildings or roads), or 2.3% is either rivers or lakes and or 0.3% is unproductive land.Swiss Federal Statistical Office-Land Use S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
