Mels
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Mels is a municipality in the Wahlkreis (constituency) of Sarganserland in the Seeztal, canton of St. Gallen, Switzerland.
Key facts
- Swiss town.subject_name
- Mels
- Swiss town.image_photo
- Kirche von Mels.jpg
- Swiss town.municipality_type
- municipality
- Swiss town.imagepath_coa
- CHE Mels COA.svg
- Swiss town.imagepath_flag
- CHE Mels Flag.svg
- Swiss town.canton
- St. Gallen
- Swiss town.iso code region
- CH-SG
- Swiss town.district
- Sarganserland
- Swiss town.postal_code
- 8887
- Swiss town.municipality_code
- 3293
- Swiss town.area
- 139.16
- Swiss town.elevation
- 500
- Swiss town.website
- mels.ch
- Swiss town.mayor
- Guido Fischer
- Swiss town.neighboring_municipalities
- Bad Ragaz, Fläsch (GR), Flums, Glarus Süd (GL), Pfäfers, Sargans, Vilters-Wangs, Wartau
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Mels is a municipality in the Wahlkreis (constituency) of Sarganserland in the Seeztal, canton of St. Gallen, Switzerland.
==History== Mels is first mentioned in 765 as Maile though this comes from a later copy of the original document. In 1018 it was mentioned as Meilis.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mels” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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