Jort

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

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
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	46.0/km2 (119/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.

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

• Communes of the Calvados department
• Mithraic Reliefs of Jort