- Rauland
"This article is about the former municipality in Norway. For the American diplomat Scott Rauland, see this article".
Rauland is a former municipality in
Telemark county, Norway.It was created in 1860 from the districts of Rauland in
Vinje andØyfjell inLårdal as a border adjustment. The new municipality had a population of 988.On
1 January 1964 Rauland was incorporated into Vinje. Prior to the merger Rauland had a population of 1.656.The name
The municipality (originally the parish) is named after the old farm Rauland (
Norse "Rauðaland"), since the first church was built there. The first element is the genitive case of "rauði" m 'bog-iron', the last element is "land" n 'land, farm'. (The many marshlands in the parish is filled with bog-iron - and the production of this was for centuries an important local resource.)References
*cite paper | author=Dag Jukvam / Statistics Norway | title=Historisk oversikt over endringer i kommune- og fylkesinndelingen | date=1999 | url=http://www.ssb.no/emner/00/90/rapp_9913/rapp_9913.pdfl
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