Agarn
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Agarn (Walliser German: Agaru) is a municipality in the district of Leukin the German-speaking part of the canton of Valais in Switzerland.
Key facts
- Swiss town.district
- Leuk
- Swiss town.subject_name
- Agarn
- Swiss town.municipality_type
- municipality
- Swiss town.imagepath_coa
- CHE Agarn COA.svg
- Swiss town.imagepath_flag
- CHE Agarn Flag.svg
- Swiss town.canton
- Valais
- Swiss town.iso code region
- CH-VS
- Swiss town.postal_code
- 3951
- Swiss town.municipality_code
- 6101
- Swiss town.area
- 7.7
- Swiss town.elevation
- 620
- Swiss town.population
- 757
- Swiss town.populationof
- 2002
- Swiss town.website
- www.agarn.ch
- Swiss town.mayor
- Thomas Matter
- Swiss town.neighboring_municipalities
- Chandolin, Leuk, Oberems, Saint-Luc, Turtmann, Unterems
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- Municipality of Switzerland
- Official name
- Agarn
- Country
- Switzerland
- Located in
- Leuk District
- Population
- 718
- Area
- 7.65
- Elevation
- 628
- Official website
- www.agarn.ch
- Dialing code
- 027
- Licence plate code
- VS
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- Commons category
- Agarn
- P8168
- Bundesstraße 432
- external data available at URL
- geo.ld.admin.ch/boundaries/municipality/6101
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Encyclopedic overview
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Agarn (Walliser German: Agaru) is a municipality in the district of Leukin the German-speaking part of the canton of Valais in Switzerland.
==History== thumb|Historic aerial photograph by Werner Friedli from 1955 Agarn is first mentioned in 1252 as Aert. In 1267 it was mentioned as Ayert and in the 16th century it was known as Agaren. Agarn was twice nearly totally burned down, in 1799 and 1899.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Agarn” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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