Jura

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. özel isim A mountain range on the border of France and Switzerland, extending into Germany; in full, Jura Mountains.

   “Occasionally, a sigh of mountain air came from the distant Jura, fading along the plain.”

2. özel isim A department of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France. Capital: Lons-le-Saunier.
3. özel isim A canton of Switzerland. Capital: Delémont.

   “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.”

4. özel isim An island of the Inner Hebrides in Argyll and Bute council area, Scotland.

   “1839, Jura, entry in Thomas Curtis (editor), The London Encyclopaedia, page 275, 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.”