Matran
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Matran (, ) is a municipality in the district of Sarine in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland.
Key facts
- Swiss town.subject_name
- Matran
- Swiss town.municipality_type
- municipality
- Swiss town.imagepath_coa
- CHE Matran COA.svg
- Swiss town.canton
- Fribourg
- Swiss town.iso code region
- CH-FR
- Swiss town.district
- Sarine
- Swiss town.postal_code
- 1753
- Swiss town.municipality_code
- 2208
- Swiss town.area
- 2.89
- Swiss town.elevation
- 614
- Swiss town.website
- www.matran.ch
- Swiss town.mayor_title
- Syndic
- Swiss town.neighboring_municipalities
- Avry, Corminboeuf, Hauterive, Neyruz, Villars-sur-Glâne
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- Municipality of Switzerland
- Official name
- Matran
- Country
- Switzerland
- Located in
- Sarine District
- Official language
- French
- Population
- 1521
- Area
- 2.91
- Elevation
- 611
- Shares border with
- Villars-sur-Glâne
- Official website
- www.matran.ch
- Image
- 2013-05-07 Friburgo (Foto Dietrich Michael Weidmann) 015.JPG
- Dialing code
- 026
- Licence plate code
- FR
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- Commons category
- Matran
- postal code
- 1753
- external data available at URL
- geo.ld.admin.ch/boundaries/municipality/2208
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Encyclopedic overview
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Matran (, ) is a municipality in the district of Sarine in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland.
==History== Matran is first mentioned in 1123 as Martrans. It is then mentioned in 1138 under the name Martrens en Nuithonie. Later it changed to Martrans (1148), Matrans (1157), Martranz (1285), Martrant (1445), Martrand (1555) and Matrang (1668). The place name derives from "Martyrus".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Matran” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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