Giffers
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Giffers (French: Chevrilles; ) is a municipality in the district of Sense in the canton of Fribourg, Switzerland. It is one of the municipalities with a large majority of German speakers in the mostly French speaking Canton of Fribourg.
Key facts
- Swiss town.subject_name
- Giffers
- Swiss town.municipality_type
- municipality
- Swiss town.image_photo
- Giffers.JPG
- Swiss town.image_caption
- Giffers village
- Swiss town.imagepath_coa
- CHE Giffers COA Var.svg
- Swiss town.imagepath_flag
- CHE Giffers Flag.svg
- Swiss town.canton
- Fribourg
- Swiss town.iso code region
- CH-FR
- Swiss town.district
- Sense
- Swiss town.postal_code
- 1735
- Swiss town.municipality_code
- 2294
- Swiss town.area
- 5.15
- Swiss town.elevation
- 767
- Swiss town.website
- www.giffers.ch
- Swiss town.mayor_title
- Gemeindeammann
- Swiss town.neighboring_municipalities
- Plaffeien, Plasselb, Rechthalten, Sankt Silvester, Tentlingen
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- Municipality of Switzerland
- Official name
- Giffers
- Country
- Switzerland
- Located in
- Sense District
- Population
- 1634
- Area
- 5.22
- Elevation
- 822
- Official website
- www.giffers.ch
- Image
- Giffers.JPG
- Dialing code
- 026
- Licence plate code
- FR
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- Commons category
- Giffers
- postal code
- 1735
- P8168
- Marienkirche
- external data available at URL
- geo.ld.admin.ch/boundaries/municipality/2294
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Encyclopedic overview
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Giffers (French: Chevrilles; ) is a municipality in the district of Sense in the canton of Fribourg, Switzerland. It is one of the municipalities with a large majority of German speakers in the mostly French speaking Canton of Fribourg.
==History== Giffers is first mentioned in 1160 as Chivriles. In 1301 it was mentioned as Guifrils and in 1577 it was first called Giffers.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Giffers” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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