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Also known as Murist FR

Murist (; ) is a former municipality in the district of Broye, in the canton of Fribourg, Switzerland.

Key facts

Swiss town.subject_name
Murist
Swiss town.municipality_type
former
Swiss town.image_photo
La Molière 2.jpg
Swiss town.image_caption
La Molière tower in Murist
Swiss town.imagepath_coa
CHE Murist COA.svg
Swiss town.canton
Fribourg
Swiss town.iso code region
CH-FR
Swiss town.district
Broye
Swiss town.postal_code
1489
Swiss town.municipality_code
2034
Swiss town.area
8.20
Swiss town.elevation
662
Swiss town.population
621
Swiss town.populationof
Dec 2015
Swiss town.popofyear
2015
Swiss town.mayor_title
Syndic
Swiss town.places
Murist, Franex, La Vounaise, Montborget
Swiss town.neighboring_municipalities
Bollion, Châbles, Chavannes-le-Chêne (VD), Cheyres, Les Montets, Nuvilly, Seiry, Treytorrens (Payerne) (VD)

via Wikipedia infobox

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Encyclopedic overview

11 sections
Contents
  • History
  • Geography
  • Coat of arms
  • Demographics
  • Heritage sites of national significance
  • Politics
  • Economy
  • Religion
  • Education
  • References
  • External links

Murist (; ) is a former municipality in the district of Broye, in the canton of Fribourg, Switzerland.

Its territory was enlarged in 1981 with the formerly independent municipalities La Vounaise and Montborget, and in 1992 with Franex. On 1 January 2017 the former municipalities of Murist, Bussy, Estavayer-le-Lac, Morens, Rueyres-les-Prés, Vernay and Vuissens merged into the new municipality of Estavayer.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Murist” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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