What year was Canton Jura created — Switzerland's newest canton?

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Canton Jura was created in 1979 — the 26th and newest Swiss canton — when its French-speaking, largely Catholic districts voted to split from the German-speaking, Protestant-majority Canton of Bern. The "Jura question" had simmered for decades through referendums and militant separatist campaigns; peacefully carving out a whole new canton at the ballot box is a rare modern example of a country redrawing its own internal borders. Peg 19 · 79 → tub · cop: a cop sitting in a tub.

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• Canton of Jura — Wikipedia — the 1979 split from Bern and the long "Jura question".