As I write these lines, we know that Moutier, a small town located, as its slogan puts it, in the «heart of the Jura», has decided by a narrow majority to join the canton. The vote brings an almost definitive end to a two-century-old conflict, since it was in 1815 that the former lands of the Bishopric of Basel were annexed by the canton of Berne. Much later, in the second half of the twentieth century, the question of identity resurfaced and flared up, leading, after a long period of tension, to the Republic and Canton of Jura's entry into sovereignty in 1979.
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