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The name of the municipality (and the parish) is Ålen which comes from the [[Old Norse]] word ''áll'', meaning ''[[eel]]'', which likely refers to the winding valley in which the main village centre is located.<ref name="snl" /> |
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Revision as of 02:25, 25 March 2018
Ålen Municipality
Ålen herad | |
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 Sør-Trøndelag within Norway | |
 Ålen within Sør-Trøndelag | |
| Coordinates: 62°50′31″N 11°18′05″E / 62.8419°N 11.3013°E | |
| Country | Norway |
| County | Sør-Trøndelag |
| District | Gauldalen |
| Established | 1855 |
| • Preceded by | Holtaalen in 1855 |
| Disestablished | 1972 |
| • Succeeded by | Holtålen in 1972 |
| Administrative centre | Renbygda |
| Area (upon dissolution) | |
| • Total | 718 km2 (277 sq mi) |
| Population (1972) | |
| • Total | 1,944 |
| • Density | 2.7/km2 (7.0/sq mi) |
| Demonym | Ålbygg[1] |
| Official language | |
| • Norwegian form | Unknown |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| ISO 3166 code | NO-1644[3] |
Ålen is a former municipality in the old Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. The 718-square-kilometre (277 sq mi) former municipality existed from 1855 until 1972. It encompassed the southeastern half of what is now the municipality of Holtålen in Trøndelag county. The administrative centre was the village of Renbygda (also known as Ålen) where Ålen Church is located.[4]
History
The parish of Ålen (historically spelled Aalen) was established as a civil municipality in 1855 when it was split off from the municipality of Holtaalen. Initially, Ålen had a population of 1,487. (The now smaller Holtaalen municipality later changed its name to Haltdalen in 1937.) In 1875, an uninhabited part of Ålen was moved to the neighboring municipality of Røros. On 1 January 1972, the municipality of Ålen was merged with the neighboring municipality of Haltdalen to make a new municipality called Holtålen, bringing back to use a name from an earlier municipality. Prior to the merger Ålen municipality had a population of 1,944. On 21 April 1989, a small unpopulated part of the neighboring municipality of Røros was transferred to Holtålen.[5]
Name
The name of the municipality (and the parish) is Ålen which comes from the Old Norse word áll, meaning eel, which likely refers to the winding valley in which the main village centre is located.[4]
See also
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.
- ^ a b Haugen, Morten, ed. (2014-11-28). "Ålen – tidligere kommune". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 2018-01-16.
- ^ Jukvam, Dag (1999). "Historisk oversikt over endringer i kommune- og fylkesinndelingen" (PDF) (in Norwegian). Statistisk sentralbyrå.
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