Marnardal
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| Marnardal kommune | |||
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| Coordinates: 58°14′34″N 7°29′49″E / 58.24278°N 7.49694°E | |||
| Country | Norway | ||
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| County | Vest-Agder | ||
| District | Sørlandet | ||
| Municipality ID | NO-1021 | ||
| Administrative centre | Marnardal | ||
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| - Mayor (2007) | Helge Sandåker (Ap) | ||
| Area (Nr. 239 in Norway) | |||
| - Total | 395 km2 (152.5 sq mi) | ||
| - Land | 376 km2 (145.2 sq mi) | ||
| Population (2004) | |||
| - Total | 2,214 | ||
| - Density | 6/km2 (15.5/sq mi) | ||
| - Change (10 years) | -0.5 % | ||
| - Rank in Norway | 324 | ||
| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) | ||
| - Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) | ||
| Official language form | Neutral | ||
| Demonym | Marnardøl [1] | ||
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| Website | www.marnardal.kommune.no | ||
Marnardal is a municipality in the Vest-Agder county, Norway. Marnardal was created as a new municipality on 1 January 1964 after the merger of the old municipalities of Bjelland, Laudal, and Øyslebø.
It is an inland municipality, bordering in the north on Evje og Hornnes municipality in Aust-Agder county, Audnedal municipality in the west, Lindesnes, Mandal, and Søgne in the south, and Songdalen and Vennesla in the east.
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[edit] General information
[edit] Name
The name is a revival (from 1965) of the Old Norse form Marnardalr. The first element is the genitive case of the river name Mörn (now Mandalselva), the last element is dalr meaning 'dale, valley'. The meaning of the river name is unknown (maybe derived from marr which means 'sea').
See also > Mandal
[edit] Coat-of-arms
The coat-of-arms is from modern times. They were granted on 19 June 1987. The arms show three flowers, one for each of the three former municipalities of Bjelland, Laudal, and Øyslebø, which were merged into Marnardal.[2]
[edit] References
- ^ "Personnemningar til stadnamn i Noreg" (in Norwegian). Språkrådet. http://www.sprakrad.no/Sprakhjelp/Rettskriving_Ordboeker/Innbyggjarnamn.
- ^ Norske Kommunevåpen (1990). "Nye kommunevåbener i Norden". http://www.ngw.nl/int/nor/m/marnarda.htm. Retrieved on 27 September 2008.
[edit] External links
Media related to Marnardal at Wikimedia Commons
The Wiktionary definition of Marnardal- Municipal fact sheet from Statistics Norway
- Vest-Agder travel guide from Wikitravel
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