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    Germany and Luxembourg. Gare de Besançon-Viotte, the main railway station, sits in the centre of the city. Gare de Besançon Franche-Comté TGV is the high...
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    The Besançon–Le Locle railway line is a standard gauge railway line in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in France. A small section of the line extends...
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    The Canton of Geneva, officially the Republic and Canton of Geneva, is one of the 26 cantons of the Swiss Confederation. It is composed of forty-five municipalities...
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    Territoire de Belfort, and the Swiss cantons of Vaud, Neuchâtel, and Jura. The department is dominated by the Jura mountains, which rise east of Besançon. The...
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  • March 2015: Audincourt Baume-les-Dames Bavans Besançon-1 Besançon-2 Besançon-3 Besançon-4 Besançon-5 Besançon-6 Bethoncourt Frasne Maîche Montbéliard Morteau...
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    Louise-Constance de Batz de Castelmore, born on 4 May, 1775 in Paris. She had a son Jean-Guillaume-Ernest Batz, born in Besançon on 9 February, 1809...
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    Roman Catholic Diocese of Lausanne, Geneva and Fribourg (category Articles with German-language sources (de))
    archdiocese of Besançon, through the 18th century. The diocese of Geneva was a suffragan of the archdiocese of Vienne. It comprises the Cantons of Fribourg...
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    until the region was conquered by Louis XIV and the capital was moved to Besançon. Dole is now a sous-préfecture, or sub-prefecture, of Jura. As early as...
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    is 249,211 (2016), and its area is 1,926.4 km2 (743.8 sq mi). The communes of the arrondissement of Besançon, and their INSEE codes, are: Abbans-Dessous...
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    Doubs (river) (category Rivers of the canton of Jura)
    of France, Cantons of Switzerland, and cities: Doubs (F): Pontarlier Neuchâtel (CH) Jura (CH): Saint-Ursanne Doubs (F): Montbéliard, Besançon Jura (F):...
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    (French: Observatoire Cantonal de Neuchâtel) is an astronomical observatory funded by the Public Economy Department of the canton of Neuchâtel, Switzerland...
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    Planoise (category Areas of Besançon)
    Besançon, France, built in the 1960s between the hill of Planoise and the district of Hauts-de-Chazal. It is the most populous district of Besançon,...
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    Paris (redirect from Département de Paris)
    Département de Paris (75)". INSEE. 2011. Archived from the original on 4 September 2015. Retrieved 1 November 2014. "Un territoire ancien et de petite taille"...
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    Flag of Switzerland (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    from 1289 by King Rudolph I of Habsburg at the occasion of a campaign to Besançon. Use of a white cross as a mark of identification of the combined troops...
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    eastern France. Boussières had been the seat of a canton until its attachment to the new Canton of Besançon-6. Communes of the Doubs department "Répertoire...
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    Wikipedia (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    2015, French researchers José Lages of the University of Franche-Comté in Besançon and Dima Shepelyansky of Paul Sabatier University in Toulouse published...
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    Basel (category Cantonal capitals of Switzerland)
    in the 7th century. Basel at this time was part of the Archdiocese of Besançon. A separate bishopric of Basel, replacing the ancient bishopric of Augusta...
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    Neuchâtel (category Municipalities of the canton of Neuchâtel)
    German: Neuenburg) is a town, a municipality, and the capital of the Swiss canton of Neuchâtel on Lake Neuchâtel. Since the fusion in 2021 of the municipalities...
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    Nanterre (category Communes of Hauts-de-Seine)
    violent unrest around France. Nanterre is divided into two cantons: Canton of Nanterre-1 Canton of Nanterre-2 Nanterre is served by three stations on RER...
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  • good results for EELV. Thus, cities like Rouen, Villeurbanne, Strasbourg, Besançon or Lille are considered as being able to be won. On the evening of the...
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    Centre-Chapelle des Buis (category Besançon)
    bisontins". calameo.com. Retrieved 9 February 2024. "Galeries Lafayette – Besançon". Galeries Lafayette. Canton of Besançon-5 Besançon Bourgogne-Franche-Comté...
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  • The following is a list of the 21 cantons of the Yonne department, in France, following the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March...
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    Jura industriel (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    the line from Le Locle to the Col des Roches and on to Besançon was opened in 1884. The Chemin de fer Régional des Brenets (RdB) commenced operations on...
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    Gruyères (category Municipalities of the canton of Fribourg)
    Fribourgeois: Grevire; German: Greyerz) is a town in the district of Gruyère in the canton of Fribourg, Switzerland. The medieval town is an important tourist location...
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  • Michel Peiry (category People from the canton of Fribourg)
    manoeuvres around the camp. Between 1999 and 2000, a survey of the gendarmes in Besançon established that two soldiers had disappeared between 1975 and 1977 in...
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    ISBN 0-02-909501-8 Gotteri, Nicole: Soult: Maréchal d'Empire et homme d'État. Besançon: La Manufacture, 1991. ISBN 978-2-7377-0285-3 Hayman, Peter: Soult: Napoleon's...
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    region of the upper Jura plateaus. It is located 36.7 km (22.8 mi) from Besançon, the prefecture of the department, 9 km (5.6 mi) from the sub-prefecture...
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    of Philibert Chevignard de Chavigny, President of the Parliament of Besançon and niece of the ambassador Théodore Chevignard de Chavigny, Count of Toulongeon...
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    Zenith (watchmaker) (category Companies based in the canton of Neuchâtel)
    The company was started in 1865 by Georges Favre-Jacot in Le Locle in the canton of Neuchâtel and is one of the oldest continuously operating watchmakers...
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  • France to annex new territories in Alsace. By creating Chambres de Reunion in Metz, Besançon, and Brisach, Louis XIV was able to annex new territories without...
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