Vevelstad
Vevelstad Municipality
Vevelstad kommune | |
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Country | Norway |
County | Nordland |
District | Helgeland |
Administrative centre | Vevelstad |
Government | |
• Mayor (2003) | Ken-Richard Hansen (Sp) |
Area | |
• Total | 539 km2 (208 sq mi) |
• Land | 517 km2 (200 sq mi) |
• Rank | #198 in Norway |
Population (2008) | |
• Total | 420 |
• Rank | #427 in Norway |
• Density | 1/km2 (3/sq mi) |
• Change (10 years) | −19.8% |
Demonym | Vevelstadværing[1] |
Official language | |
• Norwegian form | Bokmål |
Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
ISO 3166 code | NO-1816[3] |
Website | Official website |
Vevelstad is a municipality in Nordland county, Norway. It is part of the Helgeland traditional region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Vevelstad. The municipality lies in the middle of Norway, surrounded by mountains and fjords. Vevelstad was separated from the municipality of Tjøtta on 1 July 1916.
General information
Name
The municipality (originally the parish) is named after the old Vevelstad farm (Old Norse: Vifilsstaðir), since the first church was built there. The first element is the genitive case of the Norse male name Vifill and the last element is staðir which means "homestead" or "farm".
Coat-of-arms
The coat-of-arms is from modern times. They were granted on 13 November 1991. The arms are canting, showing the first letter of the name, V. The municipality already applied for arms in the 1970s, but all the proposals were rejected by either the council or the national archives. Finally the above arms were adopted and granted.[4]
References
- ^ "Navn på steder og personer: Innbyggjarnamn" (in Norwegian). Språkrådet.
- ^ "Forskrift om målvedtak i kommunar og fylkeskommunar" (in Norwegian). Lovdata.no.
- ^ Bolstad, Erik; Thorsnæs, Geir, eds. (2023-01-26). "Kommunenummer". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Kunnskapsforlaget.
- ^ Norske Kommunevåpen (1990). "Nye kommunevåbener i Norden". Retrieved 2008-11-30.
External links
- Media related to Vevelstad at Wikimedia Commons
- http://oklausse.home.online.no/vevelstad/