Cheiry
Also known as Cheiry FR
Cheiry (; , locally ) is a former municipality in the district of Broye in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland. In 2021 the municipality of Cheiry merged into the municipality of Surpierre.
Key facts
- Swiss town.subject_name
- Cheiry
- Swiss town.municipality_type
- former
- Swiss town.imagepath_coa
- Cheiry.jpg
- Swiss town.image_photo
- Cheiry2012.JPG
- Swiss town.canton
- Fribourg
- Swiss town.iso code region
- CH-FR
- Swiss town.district
- Broye
- Swiss town.postal_code
- 1529
- Swiss town.municipality_code
- 2009
- Swiss town.area
- 6.49
- Swiss town.elevation
- 563
- Swiss town.population
- 390
- Swiss town.populationof
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Cheiry (; , locally ) is a former municipality in the district of Broye in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland. In 2021 the municipality of Cheiry merged into the municipality of Surpierre.
==History== Cheiry is first mentioned around 1184-85 as Chirie, when the bishop of Lausanne Roger de Vico Pisano donated it and Surpierre's churches to the priory of Saint-Maire in Lausanne, confirmed by Pope Lucius III.
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