- Marnardal
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Marnardal kommune — Municipality — 
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Vest-Agder within
NorwayMarnardal within Vest-Agder
Coordinates: 58°14′34″N 7°29′49″E / 58.24278°N 7.49694°ECoordinates: 58°14′34″N 7°29′49″E / 58.24278°N 7.49694°E Country Norway County Vest-Agder District Sørlandet Administrative centre Marnardal Government - Mayor (2007) Helge Sandåker (Ap) Area - Total 395 km2 (152.5 sq mi) - Land 376 km2 (145.2 sq mi) Area rank 239 in Norway Population (2010) - Total 2,240 - Rank 324 in Norway - Density 6/km2 (15.5/sq mi) - Change (10 years) -0.5 % Demonym Marnardøl[1] Time zone CET (UTC+1) - Summer (DST) CEST (UTC+2) ISO 3166 code NO-1021 Official language form Neutral Website marnardal.kommune.no Data from Statistics Norway Marnardal is a municipality in Vest-Agder county, Norway. Marnardal was created as a new municipality on 1 January 1964 through the merger of the former 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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General information
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
Coat-of-arms
The coat-of-arms is from modern times. They were granted on 19 June 1987. The arms show three pine cones, one for each of the three former municipalities of Bjelland, Laudal, and Øyslebø, which were merged into Marnardal.[2]
References
- ^ "Personnemningar til stadnamn i Noreg" (in Norwegian). Språkrådet. http://www.sprakrad.no/nb-no/Sprakhjelp/Rettskrivning_Ordboeker/Innbyggjarnamn/.
- ^ Norske Kommunevåpen (1990). "Nye kommunevåbener i Norden". http://www.ngw.nl/int/nor/m/marnarda.htm. Retrieved 27 September 2008.
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
Municipalities of Vest-Agder Åseral · Audnedal · Farsund · Flekkefjord · Hægebostad · Kristiansand · Kvinesdal · Lindesnes · Lyngdal · Mandal · Marnardal · Sirdal · Søgne · Songdalen · Vennesla
Categories:- Municipalities of Vest-Agder
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