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.

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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: December 2019
Swiss town.popofyear: 2019
Swiss town.mayor_title: Syndic
Swiss town.places: Cheiry, Chapelle, Coumin-Dessus, Coumin-Dessous
Swiss town.neighboring_municipalities: Combremont-le-Grand (VD), Combremont-le-Petit (VD), Forel-sur-Lucens (VD), Granges-près-Marnand (VD), Prévondavaux, Sassel (VD), Surpierre

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Official name: Cheiry
Population: 416
Area: 6.45
Elevation: 563
Image: Cheiry2012.JPG
Dialing code: 026
Licence plate code: FR

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Commons category: Cheiry
P8168: Murphy J. Foster
external data available at URL: geo.ld.admin.ch/boundaries/municipality/2009
postal code: 1529

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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.