Haram, Norway

Haram, Norway

Infobox_Kommune
name=Haram
idnumber=1534
county=Møre og Romsdal
landscape=Sunnmøre
capital=Brattvåg
governor=Bjørn Sandnes (H)
governor_as_of=2007
arearank=295
area=260
arealand=254
areapercent=0.08
population_as_of=2004
populationrank=119
population=8,781

populationpercent=0.19
populationdensity=35
populationincrease=2.0
language=Nynorsk
lat_deg=62| lat_min=34| lat_sec=3| lon_deg=6| lon_min=22| lon_sec=20
utm_zone=32V| utm_northing=6940155 |utm_easting=0364962| geo_cat=adm2nd





munwebpage=www.haram.kommune.no

Haram is a municipality in the county of Møre og Romsdal, Norway.The administrative center is Brattvåg, the industrial sweetspot of Sunnmøre.

Haram was established as a municipality January 1, 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt). Vigra was separated from Haram January 1, 1890. Vatne, and a part of Borgund, were merged with Haram January 1, 1965.

The name

The municipality (originally the parish) is named after the farm Haram (Old Norse "Harhamarr"), since the first church was built there. The meaning of the first element is unknown, the last element is "hamarr" m 'rocky hill'.

Until 1889 the name was written "Harham".

Coat-of-arms

The coat-of-arms is from 1987, and shows three waves.

Villages

*Brattvåg
*Søvik
*Vatne
*Austnes
*Tennfjord

Islands

*Bjørnøya
*Fjørtofta
*Haramsøya
*Løvsøya
*Skuløya
*Terøya

Trivia

The dialect of the district was well-known for its practice of H-dropping - and the old and traditional pronunciation of the name of the municipality was [a:ram] .


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