Английская Википедия:Alta-Talvik
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Alta-Talvik (or the historic: Alten-Talvig) is a former municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. The Шаблон:Convert municipality existed from 1838 until its dissolution in 1863. It was located along the Altafjorden and the river Altaelva with the same borders as the present-day Alta Municipality. The administrative centre was the village of Alta (in 2000, the village was declared a town). The European route E6 highway runs through the area today.[1]
History
The parish of Alten-Talvig was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt). According to the 1835 census, the area had a population of 3,085.[2] In 1863, the municipality of Alten-Talvig was dissolved and its area was split to create two new municipalities: Alten (population: 2,442) in the south and Talvig (population: 1,938) in the north. The two municipalities lasted for 101 years independently. During the 1960s, there were many municipal mergers across Norway due to the work of the Schei Committee. On 1 January 1964, Talvik and Alta were merged back together to form the present-day Alta Municipality.[3]
Name
The parishes of Alten and Talvig were combined to form the municipality in 1883 and it was named Alten-Talvig, by combining the two names together. The first element comes from the local Altafjorden. The name possibly comes from the Old Norse words Шаблон:Wikt-lang or Шаблон:Wikt-lang which refer to a swan. It could also be the Norwegianization of the Finnish word (Шаблон:Lang) which refers to a "lowland". Prior to 1918, the name was written Alten.[4][5]
The second element of the name comes from the old Talvig farm since the first Talvik Church was built there. The first element of the name is rather uncertain. If the first part was of Old Norse origin then it is derived from the word Шаблон:Lang which means "pine" (due to the large number of pine trees in the area). The other explanation is that it is a corruption of the Northern Sami word Шаблон:Lang or the longer name Шаблон:Lang which translates as "fog" or "fog bay". The early Norwegian settlers would have translated that as Шаблон:Lang (meaning "fog bay") and this could have been corrupted from Шаблон:Wikt-lang to Шаблон:Wikt-lang. The last part of the name is Шаблон:Wikt-lang which means "inlet" or "cove".[6][7]
Government
During its existence, this municipality was governed by a municipal council of elected representatives, which in turn elected a mayor.[8]
Mayors
The mayors of Alta-Talvik:[9][10] Шаблон:Div col
- 1838-1842: John Andreas Gill
- 1843-1845: Ellert Michael Ellertsen
- 1845-1847: Niels Frederik Julius Aars
- 1847-1849: Theodor Bergmann Borchgrevink
- 1849-1851: Carl Norum
- 1851-1853: Theodor Bergmann Borchgrevink
- 1853-1855: Thomas Thomesen
- 1855-1857: Theodor Bergmann Borchgrevink
- 1857-1859: Lars Olsen Follum
- 1859-1861: Martin Heggelund Hjort Stuwitz
- 1861-1863: Lars Olsen Follum
See also
References
External links
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