Murist
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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)
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Encyclopedic overview
11 sectionsContents
- 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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