Saint-Claude, Jura

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Commune of Saint-Claude

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Location
Longitude 05° 51' 50" E
Latitude 46° 23' 16" N
Administration
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).
France

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was so great that, since the thirteenth century, the name "Saint-Claude" came more and more into use and has to-day superseded the other.[1]

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