Mont-Terrible
Sign in to saveMont-Terrible () was a department of the First French Republic, with its seat at Porrentruy.
Key facts
- Former country.conventional_long_name
- Department of Mont-Terrible
- Former country.common_name
- Mont-Terrible
- Former country.year_start
- 1793
- Former country.year_end
- 1800
- Former country.image_map
- Département du Mont-Terrible.svg
- Former country.image_map_caption
- Mont-Terrible and its arrondissements
- Former country.official_languages
- French
- Former country.status
- Department of the French First Republic
- Former country.admin_center_type
- Chef-lieu
- Former country.admin_center
- Porrentruy
- Former country.population_census
- 35,954
- Former country.population_census_year
- 1797
- Former country.era
- French Revolutionary Wars
- Former country.event_pre
- Prince-Bishopric of Baseloverthrown
- Former country.date_pre
- 19 December 1792
- Former country.event_start
- Annexation of theRauracian Republic
- Former country.date_start
- 23 March
- Former country.event1
- Montbéliardincorporated
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- department of France
- Named after
- Mont Terri
- Official name
- Mont-Terrible
- Country
- France
- Capital
- Porrentruy
- Followed by
- Haut-Rhin
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- inception
- 1793-03-25
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 1800-02-17
- replaces
- Rauracian Republic
- replaced by
- Haut-Rhin
- Commons category
- Mont-Terrible
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Creation
- References
Mont-Terrible () was a department of the First French Republic, with its seat at Porrentruy.
The Mont Terrible for which the department was named is now known as , a peak of near Courgenay (now in the canton of Jura, Switzerland). The toponym of was formed by popular etymology from an earlier Frainc-Comtou Mont Tairi, from "arid, dry".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mont-Terrible” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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