There, in one of the major Swiss engineering feats of the 19th century, the Jura water correction, the river, which had previously rendered the countryside north of Bern a swampland through frequent flooding, was diverted by the Hagneck Canal into Lake of Bienne.

Thom proposed that this was a foresight to a point on the distant horizon between Beinn Shianaidh and Beinn o ' Chaolias on Jura.

The extreme right flank of the Franco-Bavarian army was covered by the Danube ; to the extreme left flank lay the undulating pine-covered hills of the Swabian Jura.

David Astor was instrumental in arranging a place for Orwell on Jura.

By the end of July 1948 Orwell was able to return to Jura and by December he had finished the manuscript of Nineteen Eighty-Four.

It was a deception ; Toussaint was seized and deported to France, where he died of pneumonia while imprisoned at Fort de Joux in the Jura Mountains in April 1803.

The Jurassic is named after the Jura Mountains within the European Alps, where limestone strata from the period was first identified.

Alexander von Humboldt recognized the mainly limestone dominated mountain range of the Jura Mountains as a separate formation that was not at the time included in the established stratigraphic system defined by Abraham Gottlob Werner and named it “ Jurakalk ” in 1795.

The name “ Jura ” is derived from the Celtic root “ jor ”, which was Latinised into “ juria ”, meaning forest ( i. e. “ Jura ” is forest mountains ).

The house in which Pasteur was born, Dole, Jura | Dole

Louis Pasteur was born on December 27, 1822, in Dole in the Jura region of France, into the family of a poor tanner.

The above report was made in an article by Malatesta and Cafiero in the ( Swiss ) Jura Federation's bulletin later that year.

He was born as Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris in La Chaux-de-Fonds, a small city in Neuchâtel canton in north-western Switzerland, in the Jura mountains, just across the border from France.

Other important cities are Dole ( capital before the region was conquered by Louis XIV in the late 17th century ), Vesoul ( capital of Haute-Saône ), Arbois ( the " wine capital " of the Jura ), and Lons-le-Saunier ( capital of Jura ).

When the canton of Jura was created in 1979, the district of Laufental became an enclave of the canton of Bern.

K Foundation Burn a Million Quid was an action that took place on 23 August 1994, in which the K Foundation ( an art duo consisting of Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty ) burned cash in the amount of one million pounds sterling on the Scottish island of Jura.

" The concept was first proposed by Jules Marcou in Lettres sur les roches du Jura.

Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle ( 10 May 1760, Montaigu, Jura – 26 June 1836 ), was a French Army officer of the Revolutionary Wars.

There were two available routes for them: the first one was the difficult and dangerous Pas de l ' Ecluse, located between the Jura mountains and the Rhône River.

Born at Mont-sous-Vaudrey in the Jura mountains, he became an advocate in 1837, and, having steadily maintained republican principles under the Orléans monarchy, was elected by his native department to the Constituent Assembly of 1848.

Life was extremely hard in the Swabian Jura.

He was under Bourbaki during the campaign of the Jura, and when Bourbaki attempted to commit suicide he succeeded to the command ( 23 January 1871 ), only to be driven with 84, 000 men over the Swiss frontier at Pontarlier.

** The Canton of Jura comes into existence as the twenty-sixth canton of Switzerland, being formed from the predominantly French-speaking Catholic part of the Canton of Bern.

However, the southern part of the Jura region, which is also predominantly French-speaking but has a Protestant majority, opted not to join the newly-formed canton, and instead remained part of the Canton of Bern.

In 2004, a federal commission proposed that the French-speaking southern Jura be reunited with the Canton of Jura, as the language question now seems to be more important than the denominational one.

Elsener, through his company Victorinox, managed to corner the market until 1893, when the second industrial cutler of Switzerland, Paul Boéchat & Cie, headquartered in Delémont in the French-speaking region of Jura, started selling a similar product.

Courtelary is a municipality of the French-speaking Bernese Jura, in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.

It is located in the French-speaking Bernese Jura ( Jura Bernois ).

La Neuveville is a municipality in the Jura bernois administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland, located in the French-speaking Bernese Jura ( Jura Bernois ).

In the second half of the 20th century, tensions between the French-speaking minority in the Canton of Bern and the German-speaking majority led to the creation of the new Canton of Jura on January 1, 1979.

The dahu is a staple of 20th century French popular culture, known in Lorraine, in the mountainous regions of eastern France ( Alpes and Jura ), and in French-speaking Switzerland as a theme of jokes among natives and a spoof for fooling young children.

Courtelary District was located in Switzerland and was one of the 3 French-speaking districts of the Bernese Jura.

It is located in the French-speaking Bernese Jura ( Jura Bernois ).

Bernese Jura () is the name for the French-speaking area of the Swiss canton of Bern, and from 2010 one of five administrative divisions of the canton.

Of the 160 seats in the Grand Council of Bern, 12 seats are reserved for the Bernese Jura and an additional three seats are guaranteed for the French-speaking population of the bilingual district of Biel / Bienne.

La Neuveville District was one of the 3 French-speaking districts of the Bernese Jura in the canton of Bern with the seat being La Neuveville.

Moutier District was one of the 3 French-speaking districts of the Bernese Jura in the canton of Bern with the seat being Moutier.

It is located in the French-speaking Bernese Jura ( Jura Bernois ).

It is located in the French-speaking Bernese Jura ( Jura Bernois ).

The Roman parts of Germania, " Lesser Germania ", eventually formed two provinces of the empire, Germania Inferior, " Lower Germany ", which came to eventually include the region of the original germani cisrhenani and Germania Superior, which in modern terms comprised an area of western Switzerland, the French Jura and Alsace regions, and southwestern Germany.

The Roman ruins of Aventicum, Avenches Castle, the Cure at Rue du Jura 2, the Swiss Reformed Church, the Temple à Donatyre and the Tour de l ’ évêque ( Bishops tower ) with amphitheater and Roman Museum are listed as Swiss heritage site of national significance.

He proclaimed independence from the Holy Roman Emperor Lothair III, but was defeated by King Conrad III of Germany and forced to relinquish all his lands east of the Jura.