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Saine (river)
The Saine is a French river that flows through the Jura department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region. It is a left tributary of the Ain. Geography Nineteen kilometers long, the Saine rises in a green, sparsely populated area, in the small village of Foncine-le-Haut, in the Haut-Jura Regional Nature Park, at an altitude of around 892 m. First, it heads south-west, then, on reaching Foncine-le-Bas, it bends north-west and cuts deeply into the limestone plateau, creating the gorges de Malvaux, where it receives a right-bank tributary, the Bief de la Ruine, with its famous waterfall. Near the village of Les Planches-en-Montagne, it creates a spectacular 1 km-long fault, the Gorges de la Langouette. It then continues in the same direction until its confluence with the Ain at Syam, four kilometers upstream of Champagnole, at an altitude of 521 m. Communes and cantons crossed In the Jura department alone, the Saine flows through five communes and two cantons: * from upstrea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
Bourgogne-Franche-Comté (; , sometimes abbreviated BFC; Arpitan: ''Borgogne-Franche-Comtât'') is a region in Eastern France created by the 2014 territorial reform of French regions, from a merger of Burgundy and Franche-Comté. The new region came into existence on 1 January 2016, after the regional elections of December 2015, electing 100 members to the Regional Council of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. The region covers an area of and eight departments; it had a population of 2,811,423 in 2017. Its prefecture and largest city is Dijon, although the regional council sits in Besançon, making Bourgogne-Franche-Comté one of two regions in France (along with Normandy) in which the prefect does not sit in the same city as the regional council. Toponymy The text of the territorial reform law gives interim names for most of the merged regions, combining the names of their constituent regions separated by hyphens. Permanent names would be proposed by the new regional councils and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lons-le-Saunier
Lons-le-Saunier () is a commune and capital of the Jura Department, eastern France. Geography The town is in the heart of the Revermont region, at the foot of the first plateau of the Jura massif. The Jura escarpment extends to the east and south, while to the west lies the plain of Bresse and to the north extensive vineyards. The river Vallière runs through the town, rising in a typical Jura blind valley not far away, at Revigny. It has been conduited since the 1960s on grounds of hygiene, since sewage outlets run into it. A small section remains in the open air near the parc des Bains, and only a single bridge (the pont de la Guiche) remains. The town is approximately equally placed between Besançon, Dijon, Bourg-en-Bresse and Geneva, though the last of these lies on the other side of the Jura massif. It is served by the A39 autoroute, by which Dijon can be reached in about an hour and Lyon in an hour and a half. The town's railway station lies on the line from Strasb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parc Naturel Régional Du Haut-Jura
Parc naturel régional du Haut-Jura (Jura Mountains Regional Natural Park) is a French regional natural park located in the southwest of the Jura Mountain Range in France, on the French-Swiss border. Park description The park was created February 10, 1986, and at that time comprised 37 towns. As of 2005, that count is now 113 towns, with a total population of 71,000 inhabitants. The park covers an area of 165,000 hectares across three French departments: Ain, Doubs and Jura. Entry towns (''ville-portes'') situated at the park boundaries are not actually part of the park themselves, but due to their geographic locations are important points of entry into the park. These towns are Divonne-les-Bains, Gex, Bellegarde-sur-Valserine, Champagnole, and the Community of Communes of Oyonnax (the latter two not having territory within the park's perimeter). History The park was established in 1986. Its aim was to preserve the mountainous landscapes and biodiversity of the wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trout
Trout are species of freshwater fish belonging to the genera '' Oncorhynchus'', '' Salmo'' and '' Salvelinus'', all of the subfamily Salmoninae of the family Salmonidae. The word ''trout'' is also used as part of the name of some non-salmonid fish such as ''Cynoscion nebulosus'', the spotted seatrout or speckled trout. Trout are closely related to salmon and char (or charr): species termed salmon and char occur in the same genera as do fish called trout (''Oncorhynchus'' – Pacific salmon and trout, ''Salmo'' – Atlantic salmon and various trout, ''Salvelinus'' – char and trout). Lake trout and most other trout live in freshwater lakes and rivers exclusively, while there are others, such as the steelhead, a form of the coastal rainbow trout, that can spend two or three years at sea before returning to fresh water to spawn (a habit more typical of salmon). Arctic char and brook trout are part of the char genus. Trout are an important food source for humans and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mont Noir
Mont Noir (''Zwarte Berg'' in Dutch) is a high hill located on the French-Belgian border, a few kilometres from Bailleul. It takes its name from the presence of a high concentration of black pine woodland, which covers the hillside. Location Three municipalities share Mont Noir; Saint-Jans-Cappel and Boeschepe, both in France, and Westouter Heuvelland () is a municipality located in the Belgian province of West Flanders. The municipality comprises the villages of Dranouter, Kemmel, De Klijte, Loker, Nieuwkerke, Westouter, Wijtschate and Wulvergem. Heuvelland is a thinly populated ... in Belgium. The summit is located entirely in France. References External links ''MONT NOIR MILITARY CEMETERY, ST. JANS-CAPPEL'' cwgc.org Landforms of Nord (French department) Noir Hauts-de-France region articles needing translation from French Wikipedia {{Belgium-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Syam Villa
Syam may refer to: * Syam, Jura, a commune in eastern France * Syam Ben Youssef, Tunisian footballer * Amal Syam, member of the Palestinian group Hamas * Satrio Syam, Indonesian footballer * Variant of the Indian given name Shyam (see article for a list of people) See also * Sjam (other) * Siam (other) * Château de Syam, a castle in Syam, Jura, France * Forges de Syam The Forges de Syam (Syam Forges) are forge works and sheet metal mills at the confluence of the rivers Ain and Saine to the south of Champagnole in the French département of Jura. The documentary film ''Syam ou le temps forgé,'' filmed on loca ..., forge works in Jura département * Seyam, a list of people with that name {{Disambiguation, geo, given name, surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fontaine-Notre-Dame, Nord
Fontaine-Notre-Dame is a commune in the Nord department in northern France. Heraldry Fontaine-Notre-Dame in World War I Fontaine-Notre-Dame was the scene of intense fighting during the Battle of Cambrai in World War I. The battle started on 20 November 1917 when the British army made significant advances (4 miles) by virtue of its extensive use of tanks (300) for the first time. Fontaine-Notre-Dame was initially captured but, as the British advance stalled in the following days, soon lost due to "a vigorous ermancounterattack". General Julian Byng decided to make one more effort on 27 November to try to recapture Fontaine-Notre-Dame and the neighbouring Bourlon Wood, despite the reservations of divisional commander Major-General Fielding who described the idea as, "a dangerous and impracticable undertaking for which there could be no kind of justification." The attack commenced at 6.20 a.m. on 27 November 1917 with soldiers of the 3rd Battalion Grenadier Guards heading ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lac-des-Rouges-Truites
Lac-des-Rouges-Truites () is a commune in the Jura department in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in eastern France. Population See also *Communes of the Jura department The following is a list of the 494 communes of the Jura department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2020):Communes of Jura (department) {{JuraFR-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Châtelblanc
Châtelblanc () is a commune in the Doubs department Department may refer to: * Departmentalization, division of a larger organization into parts with specific responsibility Government and military *Department (administrative division), a geographical and administrative division within a country, ... in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in eastern France. Population See also * Communes of the Doubs department References Communes of Doubs {{Doubs-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chaux-des-Crotenay
Chaux-des-Crotenay is a commune in the Jura department in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in eastern France. Population Battle of Alesia The siege of Alesia was the last major battle between the Gauls under Vercingetorix and the Romans under Julius Caesar, but the location of the historical city of Alesia remains under dispute. The generally accepted location is in Alise-Sainte-Reine, but Danielle Porte, a professor at the Sorbonne, has argued for an alternative theory that a site in Chaux-des-Crotenay better fits the historical description. See also *Communes of the Jura department The following is a list of the 494 communes of the Jura department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2020): [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Les Planches-en-Montagne
Les Planches-en-Montagne () is a Communes of France, commune in the Jura (department), Jura Departments of France, department in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in eastern France. In 1973 it absorbed the former commune La Perrena. ''Journal officiel de la République française'' n° 0024, 28 January 1973, pp. 1114-1117. Population See also *Communes of the Jura departmentReferences Communes of Jura (department) {{JuraFR-geo-stub ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
