Nannestad

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Nannestad Municipality
Nannestad kommune
Municipality
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The characteristic landscape of Nannestad
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Flag
Nannestad komm.svg
Coat of arms
Norway Counties Akershus Position.svg
Akershus within Norway
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Nannestad within Akershus
Coordinates: 60°14′44″N10°57′10″E / 60.24556°N 10.95278°E / 60.24556; 10.95278
Country Norway
County Akershus
District Romerike
Administrative centre Teigebyen
Government
 • Mayor (2007-)Anne-Ragni K. Amundsen (Ap)
Area
 • Total
341 km2 (132 sq mi)
 • Land324 km2 (125 sq mi)
 • Rank#259 in Norway
Population
 (2012)
 • Total
11,362
 • Rank#102 in Norway
 • Density31/km2 (80/sq mi)
 • Change (10 years)
Increase2.svg +23%
Demonym Nannestadsokning [1]
Official language
[2]
 •  Norwegian form Bokmål
Time zone UTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST) UTC+02:00 (CEST)
ISO 3166 code NO-3238 [3]
Website Official website
Data from Statistics Norway

Nannestad is a municipality in Akershus county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Romerike. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Teigebyen.

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History

Nannestad was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt).

Store norske leksikon writes that "At søndre Låke gård (a farm), South of Nannestad Church, Skule Bårdsson beat Birkebeinar (a political group), [... on a battlefield] South of the farm". [4]

Name and coat-of-arms

The municipality (originally the parish) is named after the old Nannestad farm (Old Norse: Nannastaðir), since the first church was built here. The first element is the genitive case of Nanni (an old Norse male name) and the last element is staðir which means "homestead" or "farm".

The coat-of-arms is from modern times. They were granted in 1990. The arms show three yellow coltsfoot flowers on a green background. This is a flower that is prevalent in the area. [5]

Geography

Nannestad is located in northwestern Akershus county, with inhabitants concentrated at Romerikssletta. It includes the villages of Maura, Åsgreina, Eltonåsen, Steinsgård and Teigebyen, that last being the administrative centre.

Demographics

In 2017, 539 inhabitants had Polish parents and/or were Polish (themselves); 239 had Lithuanian parents and/or were Lithuanian. [6]

AncestryNumber [7]
Flag of Poland.svg Poland 539
Flag of Lithuania.svg Lithuania 239
Flag of Pakistan.svg Pakistan 179
Flag of Sweden.svg Sweden 156
Flag of the Philippines.svg Philippines 143
Flag of Thailand.svg Thailand 117
Flag of Germany.svg Germany 61
Flag of Romania.svg Romania 56
Flag of Iran.svg Iran 56
Flag of Syria (2025-).svg Syria 53

Notable people

Jacob Stang, 1884 Jacob Stang.png
Jacob Stang, 1884

References

  1. ↑ "Navn på steder og personer: Innbyggjarnamn" (in Norwegian). Språkrådet.
  2. ↑ "Forskrift om målvedtak i kommunar og fylkeskommunar" (in Norwegian). Lovdata.no.
  3. ↑ Bolstad, Erik; Thorsnæs, Geir, eds. (2024-01-09). "Kommunenummer". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Foreningen Store norske leksikon.
  4. ↑ https://snl.no/Nannestad "På søndre Låke gård, sør for Nannestad kirke, skal hertug Skule Bårdsson ha slått birkebeinerne i et slag sør for gården i 1240."
  5. ↑ "Kommunevåpen" (in Norwegian). Retrieved 2008-12-20.
  6. ↑ "Immigrants and Norwegian-born to immigrant parents, by immigration category, country background and percentages of the population". ssb.no. Retrieved 25 June 2017.
  7. ↑ "Immigrants and Norwegian-born to immigrant parents, by immigration category, country background and percentages of the population". ssb.no. Retrieved 25 June 2017.
  8. ↑ IMDb Database retrieved 21 February 2021
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