| Rissa kommune | |||
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| Country | Norway | ||
| County | Sør-Trøndelag | ||
| Municipality ID | NO-1624 | ||
| Administrative centre | Rissa | ||
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| - Mayor (2003) | Per Kristian Skjærvik (Ap) | ||
| Area (Nr. ||} 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. 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. 178 in Norway) | |||
| - Total | 621 km² (239. Square Kilometre ( US spelling square kilometer) symbol km2, is a decimal multiple of the SI unit of 8 sq mi) | ||
| - Land | 588 km² (227 sq mi) | ||
| Population (2004) | |||
| - Total | 6,384 | ||
| - Density | 11/km² (28. The square mile is an imperial and US unit of Area equal the area of a square of one statute mile. Population density (in agriculture standing stock and Standing crop) is a measurement of Population per unit area or unit volume 5/sq mi) | ||
| - Change (10 years) | -0. 3 % | ||
| - Rank in Norway | 157 | ||
| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) | ||
| - Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) | ||
| Official language form | Neutral | ||
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| Website: www.rissa.kommune.no | |||
Rissa is a municipality in the county of Sør-Trøndelag, Norway. is a county in the area Trøndelag in Norway, bordering Nord-Trøndelag, Møre og Romsdal, Oppland and Hedmark.
Rissa was separated from Stadsbygd in 1860. Stadsbygd is a former municipality in Sør-Trøndelag county Norway Lensvik was separated from Rissa January 1, 1905. Lensvik is a village and former municipality in Sør-Trøndelag county Norway Most of Stadsbygd, and a part of Stjørna, were merged with Rissa January 1964. Stjørna (until 1918 written Skjørn) is a former municipality in Sør-Trøndelag county Norway
The name
The Old Norse form of the name was Rissi. Old Norse is the North Germanic language that was spoken by inhabitants of Scandinavia and inhabitants of their overseas settlements during the Viking Age This was probably the old name of the brackish basin Botnen (literally 'the bottom' of the fjord). Botnen is New Norwegian for "the bottom" it commonly refers to the inner end of a fjord system or glacial valley Even though this is a heavily land-locked fjord with a river-like inlet from the Trondheimsfjord (and was probably a shallow bay in prehistoric times). Trondheimsfjord ( Trondheimsfjorden) an inlet of the Norwegian Sea, is Norway 's third longest Fjord, 130 km long The name is probably derived from the verb rísa 'raise, rise'. (The average water level of Botnen is today about 1. 7 meters above mean sea level, and the surface water is almost fresh from accumulated internal runoff. Mean sea level (MSL is the average (mean height of the Sea, with reference to a suitable reference surface )
Coat-of-arms
The coat-of-arms is from modern times (1987) - but it has old roots: It shows the crown of Skule Bårdsson, as it is depicted on an old tombstone from Nidarosdomen. Skule Baardsson or Duke Skule ( Old Norse Skúli Bárðarson) (c Vinterdomenjpg|thumb|right|View from the Elgeseter bridge]] Nidaros Cathedral (Nidarosdomen considered the most significant church of Norway, is located in Skule was the founder of Rein kloster, which lies in the municipality. for the abbey in Austria see Rein Abbey Austria Rein Abbey was a Roman Catholic religious house for women located in Rissa
History
In April 1978, Rissa was home to a quick clay landslide which encompassed an area of 330,000 square meters and sent 6 million cubic meters of clay from the Fissa settlement on the shore into Botnen , causing a miniature tsunami on the north shore in Leira. Quick clay, also known as Leda clay and Champlain Sea clay in Canada, is a unique form of highly sensitive Marine clay, with the tendency to This slide is particularly famous because a large portion of the slide happened to be recorded on film by two amateur photographers. More information on Rissa Landslide.
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