Courtelary
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Courtelary is a municipality of the French-speaking Bernese Jura, in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. The town is the capital of the Jura bernois administrative district.
Key facts
- Swiss town.subject_name
- Courtelary
- Swiss town.image_photo
- Courtelary, Schulhaus 01 10.jpg
- Swiss town.image_caption
- School house in Courtelary
- Swiss town.municipality_type
- municipality
- Swiss town.imagepath_flag
- CHE Courtelary Flag.svg
- Swiss town.imagepath_coa
- CHE Courtelary COA.svg
- Swiss town.canton
- Bern
- Swiss town.iso code region
- CH-BE
- Swiss town.district
- Jura bernois
- Swiss town.postal_code
- 2608
- Swiss town.municipality_code
- 0434
- Swiss town.area
- 22.24
- Swiss town.elevation
- 695
- Swiss town.website
- www.courtelary.ch
- Swiss town.mayor_title
- Maire
- Swiss town.neighboring_municipalities
- Cormoret, Nods, Cortébert, Mont-Tramelan, Les Breuleux, La Chaux-des-Breuleux
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- Municipality of Switzerland
- Official name
- Courtelary
- Country
- Switzerland
- Located in
- Courtelary District
- Official language
- French
- Population
- 1438
- Area
- 22.21
- Elevation
- 695
- Body of water
- Suze
- Capital of
- Bernese Jura
- Shares border with
- Nods
- Official website
- www.courtelary.ch
- Image
- Courtelary, Schulhaus 01 10.jpg
- Dialing code
- 032
- Licence plate code
- BE
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- Commons category
- Courtelary
- postal code
- 2608
- P8168
- Klein Schierstedt
- external data available at URL
- geo.ld.admin.ch/boundaries/municipality/434
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Courtelary is a municipality of the French-speaking Bernese Jura, in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. The town is the capital of the Jura bernois administrative district.
==History== thumb|Aerial view (1950) Courtelary is first mentioned in 968 as Curtis Alerici in a list of the properties of Moutier-Grandval Abbey. In 1179, Pope Alexander III elevated the Abbot to a Canon and confirmed the Abbots title to Courtelary.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Courtelary” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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