The arrondissement of Thann is a former

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of France in the

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department in the

Alsace Alsace (, ; ; Low Alemannic German/ gsw-FR, Elsàss ; german: Elsass ; la, Alsatia) is a cultural region and a territorial collectivity in eastern France, on the west bank of the upper Rhine next to Germany and Switzerland. In 2020, it had ...

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. In 2015 it was disbanded, and most of its communes were assigned to the new arrondissement of Thann-Guebwiller, some to the arrondissements of

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and

Altkirch Altkirch (, ; gsw, label= Alsatian, Àltkìrech) is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department in Alsace in north-eastern France. The town is traditionally regarded as the capital of Sundgau. Etymology The name of the commune means ''old churc ...

.Décret n° 2014-1720 du 29 décembre 2014 portant suppression des arrondissements de Guebwiller et de Ribeauvillé (département du Haut-Rhin)
/ref> It had 52

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, and its population was 81,614 (2012).Populations légales 2012: 68 Haut-Rhin
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Composition

The communes of the arrondissement of Thann, and their

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s, were:

History

The arrondissement of Thann was created in 1919.Historique du Haut-Rhin
/ref> It was disbanded in 2015. As a result of the reorganisation of the

cantons of France The cantons of France are territorial subdivisions of the French Republic's departments and arrondissements. Apart from their role as organizational units in relation to certain aspects of the administration of public services and justice, ...

which came into effect in 2015, the borders of the cantons are no longer related to the borders of the arrondissements. The cantons of the arrondissement of Thann were, as of January 2015: # Cernay # Masevaux # Saint-Amarin # Thann

References

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