Meyriez
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Meyriez (; ; ) is a municipality in the district of See or du Lac in the canton of Fribourg in 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.area
- 0.32
- Swiss town.subject_name
- Meyriez
- Swiss town.municipality_type
- municipality
- Swiss town.imagepath_coa
- CHE Meyriez COA.svg
- Swiss town.canton
- Fribourg
- Swiss town.iso code region
- CH-FR
- Swiss town.district
- See or du Lac
- Swiss town.postal_code
- 3280
- Swiss town.municipality_code
- 2271
- Swiss town.elevation
- 435
- Swiss town.website
- www.meyriez.ch
- Swiss town.mayor_title
- Syndic/Gemeindeammann
- Swiss town.executive_name
- Conseil communal/Gemeinderat
- Swiss town.executive_number_of_members
- 5
- Swiss town.neighboring_municipalities
- Greng, Haut-Vully, Murten/Morat
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- Municipality of Switzerland
- Official name
- Meyriez
- Country
- Switzerland
- Located in
- See District
- Population
- 565
- Area
- 0.34
- Elevation
- 435
- Body of water
- Lake Murten
- Official website
- www.merlach.ch
- Dialing code
- 026
- Licence plate code
- FR
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- Commons category
- Meyriez
- postal code
- 3280
- P8168
- Black Sash
- external data available at URL
- geo.ld.admin.ch/boundaries/municipality/2271
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Geography
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- Demographics
- Politics
- Economy
- Religion
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Meyriez (; ; ) is a municipality in the district of See or du Lac in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland. It is one of the municipalities with a large majority of German speakers in the mostly French-speaking canton of Fribourg.
==History== Meyriez is first mentioned in 1162 as de Meriaco. In 1178 it was mentioned as Meriei.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Meyriez” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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