Sornetan
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Sornetan is a former municipality in the Jura bernois administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. It is located in the French-speaking Bernese Jura (Jura Bernois). On 1 January 2015 the former municipalities of Châtelat, Monible, Sornetan and Souboz merged to form the new municipality of Petit-Val.
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- Locality
- Petit-Val
- Region
- Bern/Berne
- Country
- Schweiz/Suisse/Svizzera/Svizra
- Population
- 116
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Key facts
- Swiss town.subject_name
- Sornetan
- Swiss town.municipality_type
- former
- Swiss town.image_photo
- Sornetan Reformierte Kirche.jpg
- Swiss town.image_caption
- Sornetan village church
- Swiss town.imagepath_coa
- CHE Sornetan COA.svg
- Swiss town.imagepath_flag
- CHE Sornetan Flag.svg
- Swiss town.canton
- Bern
- Swiss town.iso code region
- CH-BE
- Swiss town.district
- Jura bernois
- Swiss town.postal_code
- 2716
- Swiss town.municipality_code
- 0710
- Swiss town.area
- 5.62
- Swiss town.elevation
- 843
- Swiss town.population
- 129
- Swiss town.populationof
- Dec 2011
- Swiss town.popofyear
- 2011
- Swiss town.website
- www.petit-val.ch
- Swiss town.mayor_title
- Maire
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Country
- Switzerland
- Located in
- Canton of Berne
- Official language
- French
- Area
- 5.62
- Elevation
- 843
- Image
- Sornetan Reformierte Kirche.jpg
- Dialing code
- 032
- Licence plate code
- BE
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- Commons category
- Sornetan
- postal code
- 2716
- replaced by
- Petit-Val
- P8168
- Juliusz Bursche
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Encyclopedic overview
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- History
- Geography
- Coat of arms
- Demographics
- Heritage sites of national significance
- Politics
- Economy
- Religion
- Education
- References
Sornetan is a former municipality in the Jura bernois administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. It is located in the French-speaking Bernese Jura (Jura Bernois). On 1 January 2015 the former municipalities of Châtelat, Monible, Sornetan and Souboz merged to form the new municipality of Petit-Val.
==History== Sornetan is first mentioned in 1179 as Sornetan. The municipality was formerly known by its German name Sornetal, however, that name is no longer used.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sornetan” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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