Jort

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Jort
Commune
The church in Jort
Location of Jort
Jort Show map of France Jort Show map of Normandy
Coordinates: 48°58′26″N 0°04′42″W / 48.9739°N 0.0783°W / 48.9739; -0.0783
Country	France
Region	Normandy
Department	Calvados
Arrondissement	Caen
Canton	Falaise
Intercommunality	Pays de Falaise
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Jean-François Guillemot^[1]
Area ¹	6.58 km² (2.54 sq mi)
Population (2022)^[2]	303
• Density	46/km² (120/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	14345 /14170
Elevation	29–67 m (95–220 ft) (avg. 43 m or 141 ft)
¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Jort (French pronunciation: [ʒɔʁ] ^ⓘ) is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France.

Geography

The commune is made up of the following collection of villages and hamlets, Macé and Jort.^[3]

Two rivers The Dives and The Perrières run through the commune.^[4]^[5]in addition the Le Douit du Houle flows through the commune.^[6]

Population

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±%
1962	340	—
1968	367	+7.9%
1975	351	−4.4%
1982	354	+0.9%
1990	317	−10.5%
1999	306	−3.5%
2008	308	+0.7%

Points of Interest

Town hall - contains the Mithraic reliefs of Jort, discovered in 2011 as part of Sanitation works in the commune.^[7]

National Heritage sites

Église Saint-Gervais-et-Saint-Protais de Jort - a twelfth centaury church that was listed as a Monument historique in 1927.^[8]

See also

References

^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 2 December 2020.
^ "Populations de référence 2022" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 19 December 2024.
^ ^a ^b "Jort · 14170, France". Jort · 14170, France.
^ Sandre. "Fiche cours d'eau - La Dives (I1--0200)".
^ Sandre. "Fiche cours d'eau - Rivière de Perrières (I1227000)".
^ Sandre. "Fiche cours d'eau - Le Douit du Houle (I1229000)".
^ "CIMRM Supplement - Mithraic Reliefs from Jort in Normandy, France". The Roman Cult of Mithras.
^ "Eglise à Jort - PA00111457". Monumentum.

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Communes of the Calvados department

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