Fontenais
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Fontenais is a municipality in the district of Porrentruy in the canton of Jura in Switzerland. On 1 January 2013 the former municipality of Bressaucourt merged into the municipality of Fontenais.
Key facts
- Swiss town.subject_name
- Fontenais
- Swiss town.municipality_type
- municipality
- Swiss town.imagepath_coa
- Fontenais-blazon.svg
- Swiss town.canton
- Jura
- Swiss town.iso code region
- CH-JU
- Swiss town.district
- Porrentruy
- Swiss town.postal_code
- 2902
- Swiss town.municipality_code
- 6790
- Swiss town.area
- 10.48
- Swiss town.elevation
- 458
- Swiss town.population
- 1262
- Swiss town.populationof
- 2003
- Swiss town.website
- www.fontenais.ch
- Swiss town.mayor
- Yves Daucourt
- Swiss town.mayor_title
- Maire
- Swiss town.places
- Villars-sur-Fontenais
- Swiss town.neighboring_municipalities
- Bressaucourt, Porrentruy, Cornol, Courgenay, Ocourt
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- Municipality of Switzerland
- Official name
- Fontenais
- Country
- Switzerland
- Located in
- Porrentruy District
- Official language
- French
- Population
- 1685
- Area
- 19.99
- Elevation
- 449
- Shares border with
- Montancy
- Official website
- www.fontenais.ch
- Image
- Château de Fontenais, route de Porrentruy.JPG
- Dialing code
- 032
- Licence plate code
- JU
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- Commons category
- Fontenais
- postal code
- 2902
- replaces
- Bressaucourt
- P8168
- Leon Kieres
- external data available at URL
- geo.ld.admin.ch/boundaries/municipality/6790
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Encyclopedic overview
10 sectionsContents
- History
- Geography
- Coat of arms
- Demographics
- Politics
- Economy
- Religion
- Education
- References
- External links
Fontenais is a municipality in the district of Porrentruy in the canton of Jura in Switzerland. On 1 January 2013 the former municipality of Bressaucourt merged into the municipality of Fontenais.
==History== Fontenais is first mentioned in 1148 as Fonteneis.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Fontenais” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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