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Commune of Salins-les-Bains |
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| Country | France | |
| Region | Franche-Comté | |
| Department | Jura | |
| Arrondissement | Lons-le-Saunier | |
| Canton | Salins-les-Bains (chief town) |
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| Elevation | 284 m–737 m (avg. A geographic coordinate system enables every location on the Earth to be specified in three coordinates using mainly a spherical coordinate system. Wikipedia talkFeatured lists for an explanation of this and other inclusion tags below -->This list of countries, arranged alphabetically This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. France is divided into 26 regions or régions (in French of which 21 are in continental Metropolitan France, one is the island of Corsica, Franche-Comté ( Franc-Comtois: Fràntche-Comté; Franco-Provençal: Franche-Comtât) the former "Free County" of Burgundy In the context of the political and geographic organization of France and many of its former colonies a department (département depaʁtǝmɑ̃ is an Administrative division Jura is a department in the east of France named after the Jura mountains (not to be confused with the Swiss canton of Jura The 100 French departments are divided into 342 arrondissements, which may be translated into English as districts. The arrondissement of Lons-le-Saunier is an arrondissement of France located in the Jura département, in the Franche-Comté The cantons of France are territorial subdivisions of the French Republic's 341 arrondissements and 100 departments. The elevation of a Geographic location is its height above a fixed reference point often the mean sea level. 350 m) |
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| Land area¹ | 24. 68 km² | |
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3,333 | |
| - Density | 135/km² (1999) | |
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| INSEE/Postal code | 39500/ 39110 | |
| 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0. As of January 1, 2008, 64473140 people live in the French Republic. Population density (in agriculture standing stock and Standing crop) is a measurement of Population per unit area or unit volume The INSEE code is a numerical indexing code used by the French National Institute for Statistics and Economic Studies (INSEE to identify various entities including communes Postal codes were introduced in France in 1972, when La Poste introduced automated sorting. Square Kilometre ( US spelling square kilometer) symbol km2, is a decimal multiple of the SI unit of 386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. The square mile is an imperial and US unit of Area equal the area of a square of one statute mile. An estuary is a semi-enclosed Coastal body of Water with one or more Rivers or Streams flowing into it and with a free connection to the open | ||
| 2 Population sans doubles comptes: residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) only counted once. C D E | ||
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Salins-les-Bains is a town of eastern France, in the Jura département, part of the Franche-Comté on a branch line of the Paris-Lyon railway. This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. Jura is a department in the east of France named after the Jura mountains (not to be confused with the Swiss canton of Jura In the context of the political and geographic organization of France and many of its former colonies a department (département depaʁtǝmɑ̃ is an Administrative division Franche-Comté ( Franc-Comtois: Fràntche-Comté; Franco-Provençal: Franche-Comtât) the former "Free County" of Burgundy The Compagnie des chemins de fer de Paris à Lyon et à la Méditerranée (usually known more simply as the PLM) was a French railway company.
Salins owes its name to its saline waters, used for bathing and drinking. There are also salt works and gypsum deposits. Salins is situated in the narrow valley of the Furieuse, between two fortified hills, Fort Belin and Fort Saint-André, while to the north rises Mont Poupet (2798 ft. ). The town possesses an interesting Romanesque church, St-Anatole, which has been well restored, and an hôtel de ville of the 18th century. A 17th century Jesuit chapel contains a library, established in 1593, and a museum. The Society of Jesus ( Latin: Societas Iesu, SJ and SI or SJ, SI) is a Catholic religious order
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History
The territory of Salins, which was enfeoffed in the 10th century by the Abbey of Saint Maurice-en-Valais to the counts of Mâcon, remained in possession of their descendants till 1175. Roman Agaunum, the modern Saint-Maurice in the canton Valais in southwesternmost Switzerland, was a minor post confined Mâcon is a commune of France, préfecture (capital of the Saône-et-Loire département, in the Bourgogne Maurette de Salins, heiress of this dynasty, brought the lordship to the house of Vienne, and her granddaughter sold it in 1225 to Hugh IV of Burgundy, who ceded it in 1237 to John of Chalon (d. Hugh IV of Burgundy ( March 9 1213 &ndash October 27 1271) was Duke of Burgundy between 1218 and 1271 Not to be confused with Châlons-en-Champagne, formerly known as Châlons-sur-Marne 1267) in exchange for the county of Chalon. John's descendants, counts and dukes of Burgundy, emperors and kings of the house of Austria all bore the title of sire de Salins. Austria (Österreich ( officially the Republic of Austria (Republik Österreich
In 1477 Salins was taken by the French and temporarily made the seat of the parliament of Franche-Comté by Louis XI. Franche-Comté ( Franc-Comtois: Fràntche-Comté; Franco-Provençal: Franche-Comtât) the former "Free County" of Burgundy Louis XI ( July 3, 1423 – August 30, 1483) called the Prudent (le Prudent and the Universal Spider ( Middle In 1668 and 1674 it was retaken by the French and thenceforward remained in their power. In 1825 the town was almost destroyed by fire. In 1871 it successfully resisted the German troops in the Franco-Prussian War. The Franco-Prussian War or Franco-German War, often referred to in France as the 1870 War ( 19 July, 1870 — 10 May, 1871
Demographics
As of the census of 1999, the population was 3,333. A census is the procedure of acquiring information about every member of a given population
The estimation for 2007 was 3,045.
See also
References
- This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain. The following is a list of the 544 communes of the Jura département, in France. The Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition (1910–1911 is a 29-volume reference work that marked the beginning of the Encyclopædia Britannica The public domain is a range of abstract materials &ndash commonly referred to as Intellectual property &ndash which are not owned or controlled by anyone
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