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  2. Cantons of the Jura department - Wikipedia

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    Cantons of the Jura department. The following is a list of the 17 cantons of the Jura department, in France, following the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015: [1] Arbois. Authume. Bletterans.

  3. Pont du Gard - Wikipedia

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    The Pont du Gard is an ancient Roman aqueduct bridge built in the first century AD to carry water over 50 km (31 mi) to the Roman colony of Nemausus ( Nîmes ). [3] It crosses the river Gardon near the town of Vers-Pont-du-Gard in southern France. The Pont du Gard is one of the best preserved Roman aqueduct bridges.

  4. Jura industriel - Wikipedia

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    Trains still have to reverse in Chambrelien to overcome the difference in altitude between Neuchâtel and Convers. The Compagnie du Jura industriel (Jura industrial, JI) is a former Swiss railway company. It existed from 1857 to 1875 and operated the Neuchâtel–Le Locle-Col-des-Roches railway . The goal of the Jura industriel was to connect ...

  5. La prose du Transsibérien et de la Petite Jehanne de France

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    La prose du Transsibérien et de la Petite Jehanne de France (Prose of the Trans-Siberian and of Little Jehanne of France) is a collaborative artists' book by Blaise Cendrars and Sonia Delaunay-Terk. The book features a poem by Cendrars about a journey through Russia on the Trans-Siberian Express in 1905, during the first Russian Revolution ...

  6. Maquis de l'Ain et du Haut-Jura - Wikipedia

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    The Maquis de l'Ain et du Haut-Jura were a group of maquis fighters in the French Resistance during World War II. On 11 November 1943, the Maquis de l'Ain et du Haut-Jura, on orders from Colonel Henri Romans-Petit, took possession of the town of Oyonnax in the Ain departement, and paraded up to the war memorial laying a wreath in the form of ...

  7. Communes of the Jura department - Wikipedia

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    The following is a list of the 494 communes of the Jura department of France . The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2020): [1] Communauté d'agglomération Espace Communautaire Lons Agglomération. Communauté d'agglomération du Grand Dole. Communauté de communes Arbois, Poligny, Salins – Cœur du Jura.

  8. La Ville-du-Bois - Wikipedia

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    La Ville-du-Bois. 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km 2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. La Ville-du-Bois ( French pronunciation: [la vil dy bwa] ⓘ) is a commune in the southern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located 40 km (25 mi) from the center of Paris .

  9. Dole, Jura - Wikipedia

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    www .doledujura .fr. 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km 2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. Dole ( French: [dɔl], [3] sometimes pronounced [dol]) [4] is a commune in the Jura département, of which it is a subprefecture ( sous-préfecture ), in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region, in Eastern ...