Augst
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Augst (Swiss German: Augscht) is a municipality in the district of Liestal in the canton of Basel-Country in Switzerland. It was known as Augusta Raurica in Roman times.
Key facts
- Swiss town.subject_name
- Augst
- Swiss town.image_photo
- Augst.jpg
- Swiss town.municipality_type
- municipality
- Swiss town.imagepath_coa
- Wappen Augst.png
- Swiss town.canton
- Basel-Landschaft
- Swiss town.iso code region
- CH-BL
- Swiss town.district
- Liestal
- Swiss town.postal_code
- 4302
- Swiss town.municipality_code
- 2822
- Swiss town.area
- 1.64
- Swiss town.elevation
- 275
- Swiss town.website
- augst.ch
- Swiss town.neighboring_municipalities
- Füllinsdorf, Giebenach, Grenzach-Wyhlen (DE-BW), Kaiseraugst (AG), Pratteln
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- Municipality of Switzerland
- Named after
- Augusta Raurica
- Country
- Switzerland
- Located in
- Liestal District
- Official language
- German
- Population
- 1024
- Area
- 1.65
- Elevation
- 266
- Body of water
- Ergolz
- Shares border with
- Füllinsdorf
- Official website
- kanton.baselland.ch/gemeinden/augst
- Image
- Augst.jpg
- Dialing code
- 061
- Licence plate code
- BL
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- Commons category
- Augst
- postal code
- 4302
- described by source
- Pauly–Wissowa
- external data available at URL
- geo.ld.admin.ch/boundaries/municipality/2822
Sources (8)
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Encyclopedic overview
12 sectionsContents
- History
- Geography
- Coat of arms
- Demographics
- Heritage sites of national significance
- Politics
- Economy
- Religion
- Education
- Transportation
- References
- External links
Augst (Swiss German: Augscht) is a municipality in the district of Liestal in the canton of Basel-Country in Switzerland. It was known as Augusta Raurica in Roman times.
==History== Augst is first mentioned in 615 as Augustodunensem praesulem. In 752 it was mentioned as Augusta and in 1288 as Augst.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Augst” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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