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  Ain - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
The highest elevation in the département (and in the Jura mountains) is the Crêt de la Neige (1720 m).
Ain is surrounded by the French départements of Jura, Saône-et-Loire, Rhône, Isère, Savoie, and Haute-Savoie.
The Parc Naturel Régional du Haut Jura is a natural reserve with high mountain passes.
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 Doubs - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Victor Hugo and Auguste and Louis Lumière are among the famous people born in Doubs.
Doubs is part of the current region of Franche-Comté and is surrounded by the French départements of Jura, Haute-Saône, and Territoire de Belfort, and the Swiss cantons of Vaud, Neuchâtel, and Jura.
The département is dominated by the Jura mountains, which rise east of Besançon.
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 Switzerland - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Women were granted the right to vote in the first cantons in 1959, at the federal level in 1971, in the last canton, Appenzell Innerrhoden, only in 1990.
Switzerland comprises three basic topographical areas: the Swiss Alps, the Swiss plateau, and the Jura mountains.The Alps are a high mountain range running across the central-south of the country.
Among the high peaks of the Swiss Alps, the highest of which is the Dufour Peak at 4,634 metres (15,203 ft), are found countless valleys, some with glaciers.
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 Mountain   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The upfolds are anticlines and the downfolds are synclines, in asymmetric folding there may also be recumbent and overturned folds.
The Jura mountains are an example of folding.
Over time, erosion can bring about an inversion of relief, the soft upthrust rock is worn away so the anticlines are actually lower than the tougher rock of the synclines.
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 Saint-Amour - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Saint-Amour, Jura, a commune in the Jura département, in France
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 Teck - LoveToKnow 1911
TECK, a ducal castle in the kingdom of Wurttemberg, immediately to the N. of the Swabian Jura and S. of the town of Kirchheim, crowning a ridge (2544 ft.) of the same name.
It was destroyed in the Peasants' War (1525).
This page was last modified 11:28, 26 Apr 2006.
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 Geneva Did You Mean geneva   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The Jura mountains can be seen at the top, and the Alps at the bottom.
It is surrounded by two mountain chains, the Alps and the Jura.
The city of Geneva has an area of 15.86 km², while the area of the Canton of Geneva is 282 km², including the two small enclaves of Céligny in Vaud.
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 Jura   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
A mountain chain on the French-Swiss border, see Jura mountains
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 Aargau
The canton of Lucerne lies south of the canton of Aargau, Zürich and Zug to the east.
The canton of Aargau is one of the least mountainous Swiss cantons, forming part of a great table-land, to the north of the Alps and the east of the Jura, above which rise low hills.
The surface of the country is beautifully diversified, undulating tracts and well-wooded hills alternating with fertile valleys watered mainly by the Aar and its tributaries.
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 Moron Did You Mean moron   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Moron, a mountain and a village in the Jura mountains, Switzerland.
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 Alps - The real meaning from Timesharetalk wikipedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
For other use of the word, see Alps (disambiguation).
The West face of the Petit Dru above the Chamonix valley near the Mer de Glace.
The Swiss Jura does geographically not belong to the Alps, however, geologically, it does.
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 Bure : search word
Bure - one of the 83 municipalities of Canton of Jura
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 Switzerland - More Info   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
On April 1Ց ; 1999 the Swiss population and the cantons voted in favour of a completely revised federal constitution.
From these the headwaters of several maјor European rivers such as the Rhine ; the Rhone River ; the Inn River ; the Aare or the Ticino River ; flow down into lakes such as Lake Geneva ; Lake Zürich ; Lake Neuchâtel ; and Lake Constance.
The Swiss climate is generally temperate climate ; but can vary greatly between the localities; from harsh conditions on the high mountains to the often pleasant Mediterranean climate at Switzerland's southern tip.
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Metropolitan France possesses a large variety of landscapes, ranging from coastal plains in the north and west, where France borders the North Sea and the Atlantic Ocean, to the Pyrenees mountains in the south-west and the Alps in the south-east, the latter containing the highest point in western Europe, Mont Blanc at 4810 m.
In between are found other elevated regions such as the Massif Central, the Jura, the Vosges, or the Ardennes which are quite rocky and forested, as well as extensive river basins such as those of the Loire River, the Rhône River, the Garonne and Seine.
The EEZ of France covers approximately 8% of the total surface of all the EEZs of the world, whereas the land area of the French Republic is only 0.45% of the total land area of the Earth.
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 Helvetia - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
For other uses of the word, see Helvetia (disambiguation).
Helvetia is the Roman name for an ancient region of central Europe occupying a plateau between the Alps and the Jura Mountains.
Helvetia, National symbols, See also, External links, Swiss culture, National personifications and Ancient Roman provinces.
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Helvetia   (305 words)

  
 Poland travel guide - Wikitravel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Ojcowski National Park - national park in the Polish Jura with bizzar rocks.
Bieszczady - 1355m are said wildest mountains in Central Europe with cities in: Sanok, Lesko, Solina, Wetlina, Ustrzyki Gorne and Ustzyki Dolne.
Polish Jura - about 800m are karst mountains with a lot of caves and bizzar rocks, with cities in: Olsztyn (castle), Mirow, Boblice, Morsko, Ogrodzeniec, Pilica, Olkusz, Rabsztyn, Pieskowa Skala, Ojcow and Rudno
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 Switzerland Encyclopedia Articles @ FatOne.net (Fat One)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Swiss Federal Council - Federal Assembly of Switzerland - List of political parties in Switzerland - Elections in Switzerland - Foreign relations of Switzerland
Swiss Alps - Swiss plateau - Jura mountains - List of lakes of Switzerland - List of rivers of Switzerland - List of mountain passes in Switzerland
Federal Charter of 1291 - Wilhelm Tell- The Early history of Switzerland- The Swiss Confederacy from 1291-1516- The Reform- Early Modern Switzerland- Switzerland in the Napoleonic era- The Helvetic Republic- The Return of the Federation- A federal Republic- Switzerland during the World Wars- "Operation Tannenbaum"- Modern Switzerland
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 Lombard - TvWiki, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Lombard, a commune of the Doubs département in France
Lombard, a commune of the Jura in France
This is a disambiguation page — a list of articles associated with the same title.
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