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Places named Jura include:

• Jura mountains, on the French-Swiss-German border, the namesake of the Jurassic period of geology and:
  • Franconian Jura, the part of the Jura mountains in southeastern Germany
  • Jura (department), a department in France
  • Canton of Jura, Switzerland
  • Bernese Jura, a region in the Canton of Bern, Switzerland
  • Polish Jura Chain, a highland region in southern Poland, hilly landscape with Jurassic limestone rocks
• Jura, Scotland, Scottish island, in the Inner Hebrides where Isle of Jura Single Malt Whiskey is distilled
• Jura, Afghanistan
• Jura, Transnistria, a village in Transnistria, Moldova
• Al-Jura, a former village in pre-1948 Palestine near Ashkelon.

Rivers named Jura include:

• Jūra, river in Lithuania
• Jura River (Papua New Guinea), river near Agaun
• Jura River (California), now dry river, formerly contained gold
• Jura River (Paris), mythological river

Companies and organisations named Jura include:

• Jura Books, anarchist bookshop in Sydney, Australia
• Jura, a brand of automatic espresso machines, named after the Jura mountains

This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct geographical locations with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.

From Wikitravel

There's more than one place called Jura:

France

• Jura (France) - a département in the Franche-Comté region

Poland

• Polish Jura (Krakow-Czestochowa Jura) - a mountain range

Switzerland

• Jura - a canton in the Jura Mountains and Fribourg region
• Jura Mountains and Fribourg - a region on the northwestern border with France

United Kingdom

• Isle of Jura - one of the Inner Hebrides islands, off the south-west coast of Scotland

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From LoveToKnow 1911

There is more than one meaning of Jura discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia. We are planning to let all links go to the correct meaning directly, but for now you will have to search it out from the list below by yourself. If you want to change the link that led you here yourself, it would be appreciated.

• Jura, France
• Jura, Scotland
• Jura (Mountain Range)

Definition from Wiktionary, a free dictionary

English

Proper noun

Jura

1. A département of France.
2. A canton of Switzerland.
3. An island in the inner Hebrides of Scotland.

Synonyms

• (1): the French département of Jura
• (2): the canton of Jura
• (3): the Scottish island of Jura

Translations

See also

• Wikipedia article on the département of Jura
• Wikipedia article on the canton of Jura
• Wikipedia article on the Scottish island of Jura