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The Jura Mountains, a mountain range on the border of France and Switzerland, extending into Germany. quotations examples
Occasionally, a sigh of mountain air came from the distant Jura, fading along the plain.
1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848
On one of the western slopes of the Jura, looking towards France, stood the feudal mansion of Grammont.
1862, Author not identified, The Fir-Tree of the Jura, The Fir-Tree of the Jura and Other Stories, Oliphants Juvenile Series, page 7
A department of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France. Capital: Lons-le-Saunier. examples
A canton of Switzerland. quotations examples
This parallel is the Jura conflict. While the cantonal structure in Switzerland largely follows linguistic lines, the predominantly French-speaking Jura had for a long time until recently been a part of the German-speaking canton of Bern.
2004, Jan Oskar Engene, Terrorism in Western Europe: Explaining the Trends Since 1950, page 158
An island of the Inner Hebrides in Argyll and Bute council area, Scotland. quotations examples
Between the north end of Jura and the small isle of Skarba there is a famous whirlpool, called Cory-vrekan, from Brecan, son of a king of Denmark, who perished in this gulph.
1839, Jura, entry in Thomas Curtis (editor), The London Encyclopaedia, page 275