Vevelstad

Vevelstad Municipality

*Vevelstad kommune*
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Municipality
	Flag Coat of arms
	Nordland within Norway
	Vevelstad within Nordland
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 (2010)
• Total	520
• Rank	#427 in Norway
• Density	1/km2 (3/sq mi)
• Change (10 years)	−19.8%
Demonym	Vevelstadværing
Official language
• Norwegian form	Bokmål
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
ISO 3166 code	NO-1816
Website	Official website
	Data from Statistics Norway

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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/

[1] "Navn på steder og personer: Innbyggjarnamn" (in Norwegian). Språkrådet.

[2] "Forskrift om målvedtak i kommunar og fylkeskommunar" (in Norwegian). Lovdata.no.

[3] Bolstad, Erik; Thorsnæs, Geir, eds. (2023-01-26). "Kommunenummer". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Kunnskapsforlaget.

[4] Norske Kommunevåpen (1990). "Nye kommunevåbener i Norden". Retrieved 2008-11-30.

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