Jura
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, searchPlaces named Jura include:
- Jura mountains The Jura Mountains are a small mountain range located north of the Alps, separating the Rhine and Rhone rivers and forming part of the watershed of each. The mountain range sensu Johann Gottfried Ebel is located in France, Switzerland, and Germany. The name “Jura” is derived from the Celtic root "jor" which was latinised into ", on the French-Swiss-German border, the namesake of the Jurassic The Jurassic is a geologic period and system that extends from about 199.6± 0.6 Ma to 145.5± 4 Ma, that is, from the end of the Triassic to the beginning of the Cretaceous. The Jurassic constitutes the middle period of the Mesozoic Era, also known as the "Age of Reptiles". The start of the period is marked by the major Triassic– period of geology and:
- Franconian Jura, the part of the Jura mountains in southeastern Germany
- Jura (department) Jura is a department in the east of France named after the Jura mountains, a department in France
- Canton of Jura The Republic and Canton of the Jura , also known as the Canton of Jura or Canton Jura, is one of the Cantons of Switzerland. It is the newest (created in 1979) of the 26 Swiss cantons, located in the northwestern part of Switzerland. The capital is Delémont. It shares borders with the Canton of Basel-Landschaft, the Canton of Bern, and the French, Switzerland
- Bernese Jura, a region in the Canton of Bern The canton of Bern is the second largest of the 26 Swiss cantons by both surface area and population. Located in west-central Switzerland, it borders the Canton of Jura and the Canton of Solothurn to the north. To the west lie the Canton of Neuchâtel, the Canton of Fribourg and Vaud. To the south lies the Valais. East of the canton of Bern lie, Switzerland Switzerland , officially the Swiss Confederation (Confœderatio Helvetica in Latin, hence its ISO country codes CH and CHE), is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe[note 4] where it is bordered by Germany to the north, France to the west, Italy to
- Polish Jura, a highland region in southern Poland Poland /ˈpəʊlənd/ (Polish: Polska), officially the Republic of Poland (Rzeczpospolita Polska), is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north. The total area of, hilly landscape with Jurassic limestone rocks
- Jura, Scotland, Scottish island, in the Inner Hebrides where Isle of Jura Single Malt Whiskey is distilled
- Jura, Afghanistan
- Jura, Camenca Raion, a village in Transnistria Transnistria, also known as Trans-Dniestr or Transdniestria is a breakaway territory located mostly in a strip between the Dniester River and the eastern Moldovan border to Ukraine. It is generally recognised internationally as being de jure in Eastern Moldova as the autonomous region Stînga Nistrului ("Left Dnestr bank"). Since its, Moldova Moldova /mɒlˈdoʊvə/ , officially the Republic of Moldova (Moldovan/Romanian: Republica Moldova) is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, located between Romania to the west and Ukraine to the north, east and south. It declared itself an independent state with the same boundaries as the preceding Moldovan SSR in 1991, as part of the
- Al-Jura, a former village in pre-1948 Palestine near Ashkelon Ashkelon or Ashqelon Arabic عسقلان ˁAsqalān (Hebrew: אַשְׁקְלוֹן (help·info); Latin: Ascalon; Akkadian: Isqalluna) is a coastal city in the South District of Israel on the Mediterranean coast, 50 kilometres (31 mi) south of Tel Aviv. The ancient seaport of Ashkelon dates back to the Neolithic Age. In the course of its.
Rivers named Jura include:
- Jūra, river in Lithuania
- Jura River (Papua New Guinea), river near Agaun
- Jura River (California), now dry river, formerly contained gold
- Jura River (Paris), mythological river
Companies and organisations named Jura include:
- Jura Books, anarchist bookshop in Sydney, Australia
- Jura Elektroapparate, Swiss developer and distributor of automatic espresso Caffè espresso, or just espresso is a concentrated coffee beverage brewed by forcing hot water under pressure through finely ground coffee machines, named after the Jura mountains
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