| Holtålen kommune | |||
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| Country | Norway | ||
| County | Sør-Trøndelag | ||
| Municipality ID | NO-1644 | ||
| Administrative centre | Ålen | ||
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| - Mayor (2003) | Ivar P. ||} Norway is divided into 19 administrative regions called counties ( fylker, singular fylke) and 430 municipalities ( kommuner, cf Norway ( Norwegian: Norge ( Bokmål) or Noreg ( Nynorsk) officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Constitutional ||-||} Norway is divided into 19 administrative regions, called counties ( Norwegian: singular fylke, plural fylker ( Bokmål is a county in the area Trøndelag in Norway, bordering Nord-Trøndelag, Møre og Romsdal, Oppland and Hedmark. ISO 3166-2NO is an ISO standard which defines Geocodes it is the subset of ISO 3166-2 which applies to Norway. Ålen is the administrative centre of Holtålen municipality in Sør-Trøndelag county Norway. Volden (Ap) | ||
| Area (Nr. The Norwegian Labour Party ( Norwegian: Det norske arbeiderparti ( DNA) or Arbeiderpartiet ( AP) is a Social democratic Area is a Quantity expressing the two- Dimensional size of a defined part of a Surface, typically a region bounded by a closed Curve. 83 in Norway) | |||
| - Total | 1,209 km² (466. Square Kilometre ( US spelling square kilometer) symbol km2, is a decimal multiple of the SI unit of 8 sq mi) | ||
| - Land | 1,172 km² (452. The square mile is an imperial and US unit of Area equal the area of a square of one statute mile. 5 sq mi) | ||
| Population (2004) | |||
| - Total | 2,172 | ||
| - Density | 2/km² (5. Population density (in agriculture standing stock and Standing crop) is a measurement of Population per unit area or unit volume 2/sq mi) | ||
| - Change (10 years) | -9. 4 % | ||
| - Rank in Norway | 330 | ||
| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) | ||
| - Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) | ||
| Official language form | Neutral | ||
| Demonym | holtåling[1] | ||
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| Website: www.holtalen.kommune.no | |||
Holtålen is a municipality in the county of Sør-Trøndelag, Norway. Central European Time ( CET) is one of the names of the Time zone that is 1 hour ahead of Coordinated Universal Time. UTC+1 is used in the following locations Central European Time West Africa Time Western European Summer Time Daylight saving time ( DST Central European Summer Time ( CEST) is one of the names of UTC+2 Time zone, 2 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time. UTC+2 corresponds to the following Time zones Eastern European Time Egypt Standard Time Central Africa Time Norwegian ( norsk) is a North Germanic Language spoken primarily in Norway, where it is an official language Norwegian ( norsk) is a North Germanic Language spoken primarily in Norway, where it is an official language A demonym or gentilic is a word that denotes the members of a People or the inhabitants of a place is a county in the area Trøndelag in Norway, bordering Nord-Trøndelag, Møre og Romsdal, Oppland and Hedmark.
Holtålen (in the period 1938-1971 named Haltdalen) was established as a municipality January 1, 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt). Formannskaps-distrikt was the name for a Norwegian local self-government districts put into force in 1838. Singsås was separated from Holtålen in 1841. Singsås is a former municipality in Sør-Trøndelag county Norway. Ålen was separated from Holtålen in 1860 - but it was again merged with Holtålen January 1, 1972. Ålen is the administrative centre of Holtålen municipality in Sør-Trøndelag county Norway.
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The name
The Old Norse forms of the name was Holtdalr and (later) Holtáll. Old Norse is the North Germanic language that was spoken by inhabitants of Scandinavia and inhabitants of their overseas settlements during the Viking Age The first element is the name of the river Holta. The last element was (first) dalr m 'valley, dale', but is was later (around 1400 AD) replaced by the word áll m 'ditch, gully'. (The form -ålen is the modern finite form of this word. )
In the period 1938-1972 the name of the municipality was Haltdalen.
Coat-of-arms
The coat-of-arms is from modern times (1988). It shows a grouse (Lagopus lagopus). The Willow Grouse (Europe or Willow Ptarmigan (North America Lagopus lagopus, is a medium-sized Gamebird in the Grouse
(See also the coat-of-arms of Lierne and Sirdal. Lierne is a municipality in the Norwegian county of Nord-Trøndelag. Sirdal is a municipality in the Vest-Agder county, Norway. Sirdal was separated from Bakke in 1849 )
Geography
The valley Gauldalen with its river the Gaula originates from the mountainous area around the mining town of Røros 35 km south of Ålen, and listet on the World Heritage List. Gauldalen ( the valley of Gaula) is a traditional district in Trøndelag, Norway, consisting of the municipalities Holtålen Gaula may refer to Gaula (Madeira Gaula River (Sogn og Fjordane Norway Gaula River (Sør-Trøndelag Norway is a Town and municipality in the county of Sør-Trøndelag, Norway. The Gaula streams to its estuary at Melhus close to Trondheim. Melhus is a municipality in the county of Sør-Trøndelag, Norway (Trondhjem is a city and municipality in the county of Sør-Trøndelag, Norway. The village of Ålen, administrative centre of the municipality, is found where the deep valley disappears into the mountains.
Downstream is the next village Haltdalen. Haltdalen is a small village in the central part of Norway with approx 600 inhabitants (2004 During the years the two villages have been separate and joined municipalities. The last fusion of the two municipalities Haltdalen (778 inhabitant) and Ålen (1944 inhabitants) in 1972 the old name Holtålen was revived.
The two mines Kjøli and Killingdal are the norththernmost of many coppermines in the Røros area. The last mine in production was Killingdal until close down in 1986.
Hessdalen is a mountain valley joining the Gauldalen close to Ålen. Hessdalen is a 15 km long valley in Norway located approximately 120 kilometres south of Trondheim city and approximately 35 km north of Røros mining town About 1983 Hessdalen became famous for UFO observations.
References
- ^ Personnemningar til stadnamn i Noreg (Norwegian)