The Mont Terrible for which the department was named is now known as mont Terri, a peak of 804 metres near Courgenay . The toponym of mont Terrible was formed by popular etymology from an earlier Frainc-Comtou mont Tairi, from tari "arid, dry".
The department was created in 1793 with the annexation of the short-lived Rauracian Republic, which had been created in December 1792 from a part of the Prince-Bishopric of Basel. In 1797, the old principality of Montbéliard, formerly given to Haute-Saône, was reattached to Mont-Terrible. The department was abolished in 1800. Its territory was annexed to the Haut-Rhin, within which it formed the two arrondissements of Delémont and Porrentruy. In 1815, the territory that had previously formed Mont-Terrible was partitioned between Doubs and the Swiss canton of Bern .
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