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unusual facts about Chapois, Jura


Chapois, Belgium

Chapois is twinned with a village of the same name, Chapois in France.


A846 road

The A846 road is one of the two principal roads of Islay in the Inner Hebrides off the west coast of mainland Scotland and the only 'A' road on the neighbouring island of Jura.

Agiez

The municipality was part of the Orbe District until it was dissolved on 31 August 2006, and Agiez became part of the new district of Jura-Nord Vaudois.

Aromas

Aromas, Jura, one of the 545 communes of the Jura département, in France

Barnhill

Barnhill, Jura, Scotland, a farmhouse on Jura, Scotland, used by George Orwell

BNS Karatoa

The Island Class offshore patrol vessels, built by Hall, Russell & Company in Aberdeen, were modelled on the ocean-going trawlers FPV Jura (1973) and FPV Westra (1974).

BNS Sangu

Built by Hall, Russell & Company, she was modelled on the ocean-going trawlers FPV Jura (1973) and FPV Westra (1974).

Canons Regular of the Immaculate Conception

This congregation was founded at Saint-Claude, in the Department of Jura, by Adrien Gréa, then a secular priest and the young Vicar General of the Diocese of St.-Claude, a position he had accepted in 1863 at the bishop's urging, despite his feeling called to life in a religious community.

Chapois, Belgium

Chapois is a village in the municipality of Ciney, Belgium.

Château de Syam

The Château de Syam, located in the village of Syam in the French department of Jura was built in 1818 by Emmanuel Jobez regional industrialist and owner of the Forges de Syam, a forge and sheet metal works.

Chemins de fer du Jura

The Chemins de fer du Jura (CJ), the railways of the Jura canton in northern Switzerland, came about as the result of an amalgamation, in 1944, of four independent companies connecting Porrentruy to Bonfol, Saignelégier to La Chaux-de-Fonds, Glovelier to Saignelégier and Tavannes to Tramelan and Le Noirmont.

Clan MacInnes

Clan MacInnes' ancestors were among the early inhabitants of Islay, Jura and the Kintyre peninsula in Scotland, generally part of the region known as Argyll.

Clan Maclaine of Lochbuie

Over the years, the Lochbuie branch has held lands in Mull, Scarba, Jura, Morvern, Locheil, and Tiree.

Col de la Faucille

Col de la Faucille is a high mountain pass in the department of Ain in the French Jura.

Courbette

Courbette, a commune of the Jura département of France

Crans

Crans, JuraJura département

Dorothy Bussy

He was five years younger, and the son of a shoemaker from the Jura town of Dole.

Eduard von Fransecky

Under Manteuffel's command Fransecky took part in the operations in the Côte-d'Or and Jura against Bourbaki's Armée de l'Est.

Emanon Records

Artists who have recorded on the label include John Corabi, Jenna Drey, JParis, Leanne Harte, Jura, Cardinal Trait, Fanzine, Lorenzo, and Brandon Cooper.

Eugster/Frismag

Eugster/Frismag manufactures around 95% of all Nespresso machines as well as other machines for brands such as Jura, Koenig, Melitta, Moulinex, or Turmix.

Expo.02

The barge represented the canton of Jura, which does not have access to any one of the three lakes.

Florimont

The settlement was established between 1747 and 1780 by Mennonite families coming from the Swiss Jura to the south and a few Amish families coming from the Montbéliard area to the southwest.

François Jules Pictet de la Rive

He now directed his attention to the fossils of his native country, more especially to those of the Cretaceous and Jurassic strata, and in 1854 he commenced the publication of his great work, Matériaux pour la paléontologie suisse, ou Recueil de monographies sur les fossiles du Jura et des Alpes..., a series of quarto memoirs, of which six were published (1854-1873).

Franconian Keuper-Lias Plains

As the name betrays, the term embraces both the keuper landscapes (including the well-known parts of the Keuper Upland Haßberge, Steigerwald and Frankenhöhe) and lias landscapes (Schwarzer Jura) in Franconia.

Gabrán mac Domangairt

The domain of the Cenél nGabraín appears to have been centred in Kintyre and Knapdale and may have included Arran, Jura and Gigha.

Geography of the Alps

Working upstream, the River Rhône turns to the east near Lyon, and forms part of the boundary between the Alps and the Jura that ends at Lake Geneva.

Georges de Regibus

In that city, he worked as a locksmith at the Jura–Simplon Railway carriage repair works while his mother earned money by selling chestnuts.

Giroud

Fort de Pré-Giroud, twentieth-century Swiss fortification located in the Jura Mountains

Groupe Bel

The company “Établissements Jules Bel” was founded in 1865 in Orgelet in the Department of the Jura.

Imerius of Immertal

Imerius (Himerius, Imier, Immer) of Immertal (d. ca. 620 AD) was a monk, hermit, and missionary in the Swiss Jura.

Jules Malfroy

The Malfroy family in New Zealand was descended from Jean Baptiste Malfroy originally from Macornay, Lons-le-Saunier, Jura, France, a miller, and his wife, Josephine Pricarde.

Jura Mountains

Part of the A40 autoroute crosses through a spectacular portion of the southern Jura between Bourg-en-Bresse and Bellegarde-sur-Valserine, which is known as the "Highway of the Titans."

Jurassic separatism

In particular, the municipality of Vellerat found itself in the canton of Berne, but it could only be reached via roads from the canton of Jura.

Juravenator

In the summer of 1998, the Jura-Museum Eichstätt at Eichstätt organised a paleontological expedition to the nearby chalk quarry of Schamhaupten.

Jurix

There is no indication if the name was in any way related to the nearby Dutch law and IT organisation JURIX or rather just a portmanteau between "Jura" and "Unix"/"Linux".

Karl Culley

Culley recorded his debut album, Bundle of Nerves, on the Scottish Isle of Jura.

Les Clées

The municipality was part of the Orbe District until it was dissolved on 31 August 2006, and Les Clées became part of the new district of Jura-Nord Vaudois.

Lynx

Fourteen projects of reintroduction have been set in Europe between 1970 and 2006 which gave the best results in Slovenia, the Swiss Alps, Jura, Croatia, Germany, and Italy.

Merian family

The founding father of all the Merians of Basel is one Theobald Merian (c.1415 – c.1505), a Basel episcopal bailiff or steward in Lüttelsdorf (now Courroux) in the Swiss canton of Jura.

Mönthal

The municipality is located in the Brugg district, in a Jura valley between Brugg and Laufenburg.

Orbe

The municipality was the capital of the Orbe District until it was dissolved on 31 August 2006, and Orbe became part of the new district of Jura-Nord Vaudois.

Pierre Edmond Boissier

His hikes in the Jura and the Alps laid the foundation of his zest for later exploration and adventure.

Rauracia

the Rauracian Republic, a short-lived (1792–1793) state that included parts of modern France and Switzerland around the Jura mountains

Romainmôtier-Envy

The municipality was part of the Orbe District until it was dissolved on 31 August 2006, and Romainmôtier-Envy became part of the new district of Jura-Nord Vaudois.

Sculpture at Schoenthal

A number of well-known Swiss and international artists have integrated works of sculpture into the surrounding Jura countryside, including Tony Cragg, Nigel Hall, Richard Long and David Nash.

Swiss Army knife

Elsener, through his company Victorinox, managed to control the market until 1893, when the second industrial cutler of Switzerland, Paul Boéchat & Cie, headquartered in Delémont in the French-speaking region of Jura, started selling a similar product.

Tête de Moine

Tête de Moine is currently produced by fewer than 10 cheese dairies of the Jura Mountains area of Porrentruy, District of Franches-Montagnes, both situated in the Canton of Jura, as well as in Moutier and Courtelary, in the Bernese Jura.

Tourism TriRhena

The natural highlights have their presence with the astonishing landscapes of the Black Forest, Alsace, and the region of Jura in Baselland.


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