Cheiry
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Cheiry (; , locally ) is a former municipality in the district of Broye in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland. In 2021 the municipality of Cheiry merged into the municipality of Surpierre.
Key facts
- Swiss town.subject_name
- Cheiry
- Swiss town.municipality_type
- former
- Swiss town.imagepath_coa
- Cheiry.jpg
- Swiss town.image_photo
- Cheiry2012.JPG
- Swiss town.canton
- Fribourg
- Swiss town.iso code region
- CH-FR
- Swiss town.district
- Broye
- Swiss town.postal_code
- 1529
- Swiss town.municipality_code
- 2009
- Swiss town.area
- 6.49
- Swiss town.elevation
- 563
- Swiss town.population
- 390
- Swiss town.populationof
- December 2019
- Swiss town.popofyear
- 2019
- Swiss town.mayor_title
- Syndic
- Swiss town.places
- Cheiry, Chapelle, Coumin-Dessus, Coumin-Dessous
- Swiss town.neighboring_municipalities
- Combremont-le-Grand (VD), Combremont-le-Petit (VD), Forel-sur-Lucens (VD), Granges-près-Marnand (VD), Prévondavaux, Sassel (VD), Surpierre
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- Ortschaft
- Official name
- Cheiry
- Country
- Switzerland
- Located in
- Surpierre
- Official language
- French
- Population
- 416
- Area
- 6.45
- Elevation
- 563
- Shares border with
- Forel-sur-Lucens
- Image
- Cheiry2012.JPG
- Dialing code
- 026
- Licence plate code
- FR
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- Commons category
- Cheiry
- replaces
- Chapelle
- P8168
- Murphy J. Foster
- external data available at URL
- geo.ld.admin.ch/boundaries/municipality/2009
- postal code
- 1529
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Cheiry (; , locally ) is a former municipality in the district of Broye in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland. In 2021 the municipality of Cheiry merged into the municipality of Surpierre.
==History== Cheiry is first mentioned around 1184-85 as Chirie, when the bishop of Lausanne Roger de Vico Pisano donated it and Surpierre's churches to the priory of Saint-Maire in Lausanne, confirmed by Pope Lucius III.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cheiry” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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