Sorvilier
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Sorvilier (Frainc-Comtou: Sorvelie) is a municipality in the Jura bernois administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. It is located in the French-speaking Bernese Jura (Jura Bernois).
Key facts
- Swiss town.subject_name
- Sorvilier
- Swiss town.municipality_type
- municipality
- Swiss town.image_photo
- SorvilierBirse2014.JPG
- Swiss town.image_caption
- The river Birs and the railroad station in Sorvilier
- Swiss town.imagepath_coa
- CHE Sorvilier COA.svg
- Swiss town.imagepath_flag
- CHE Sorvilier Flag.svg
- Swiss town.canton
- Bern
- Swiss town.iso code region
- CH-BE
- Swiss town.district
- Jura bernois
- Swiss town.postal_code
- 2736
- Swiss town.municipality_code
- 0711
- Swiss town.area
- 7.02
- Swiss town.elevation
- 681
- Swiss town.population
- 266
- Swiss town.populationof
- Dec 2011
- Swiss town.popofyear
- 2011
- Swiss town.website
- www.sorvilier.ch
- Swiss town.mayor_title
- Maire
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Sorvilier (Frainc-Comtou: Sorvelie) is a municipality in the Jura bernois administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. It is located in the French-speaking Bernese Jura (Jura Bernois).
==History== thumb|Aerial view (1955) Sorvilier is first mentioned in 1148 as Sorurvilier, though this comes from a 12th-century forgery. In 1179 it was mentioned as Sororviler. The municipality was formerly known by its German name Surbelen, however, that name is no longer used.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sorvilier” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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