Saint-Claude, Jura
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Commune of Saint-Claude View of Saint-Claude |
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| Location | |
| Longitude | 05° 51' 50" E |
| Latitude | 46° 23' 16" N |
| Administration | |
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| Country | France |
| Region | Franche-Comté |
| Department | Jura |
| Arrondissement | Saint-Claude |
| Canton | Saint-Claude |
| Intercommunality | Communauté de Communes de Val de Bienne |
| Mayor | Jean-Louis Millet (2001-2008) |
| Statistics | |
| Altitude | 360 m–1,222 m (avg. 441 m) |
| Land area¹ | 70.19 km² |
| Population² (1999) |
12,303 |
| - Density (1999) | 175/km² |
| Miscellaneous | |
| INSEE/Postal code | 39478/ 39200 |
| ¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 mi² or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
| ² Population sans doubles comptes: single count of residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel). | |
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Saint-Claude is a commune of the Jura département, in France.
The town was originally named Saint-Oyand after Saint Eugendus. However, when St. Claudius had, in 687, resigned his Diocese of Besançon and had died, in 696, as twelfth abbot, the number of pilgrims who visited his grave was so great that, since the thirteenth century, the name "Saint-Claude" came more and more into use and has to-day superseded the other.[1]
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