Granvin
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| Municipality | |||
View of the village of Granvin
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 Granvin within Hordaland |
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| Coordinates: 60°31′37″N 06°43′10″E / 60.52694°N 6.71944°ECoordinates: 60°31′37″N 06°43′10″E / 60.52694°N 6.71944°E | |||
| Country | Norway | ||
| County | Hordaland | ||
| District | Hardanger | ||
| Administrative centre | Eide | ||
| Government | |||
| • Mayor (2011) | Ingebjørg Winjum (V) | ||
| Area | |||
| • Total | 212.46 km2 (82.03 sq mi) | ||
| • Land | 204.94 km2 (79.13 sq mi) | ||
| • Water | 7.52 km2 (2.90 sq mi) | ||
| Area rank | 325 in Norway | ||
| Population (2014) | |||
| • Total | 911 | ||
| • Rank | 412 in Norway | ||
| • Density | 4.4/km2 (11/sq mi) | ||
| • Change (10 years) | -10.8 % | ||
| Demonym(s) | Gravensar | ||
| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) | ||
| • Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) | ||
| ISO 3166 code | NO-1234 | ||
| Official language form | Nynorsk | ||
| Website | www |
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Granvin is a municipality in Hordaland county, Norway. The municipality is located in the traditional district of Hardanger. The administrative centre of Granvin is the village of Eide, which is also called "Granvin". About half of the residents of the municipality live in the municipal centre. The rest live in the rural valley areas surrounding the Granvinsfjorden or the lake Granvinsvatnet in the central part of the municipality.
The parish of Graven (later spelled "Granvin") was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt). This new municipality was very large and it included two annexes to the parish: Ulvik and Eidfjord. On 1 January 1859, "Ulvik" became the main parish, so that Granvin and Eidfjord became annexes to Ulvik, and the name of municipality was changed accordingly.
On 1 May 1891, the western annex of Granvin (population: 1,331) and the southeastern annex of Eidfjord (population: 1,018) were both separated from Ulvik to become separate municipalities. On 1 January 1964, the Lussand-Kvanndal area of Kinsarvik municipality (population: 72) were transferred to Granvin.
The municipality (originally the parish) is named after the old "Granvin" farm (Old Norse: Grǫnvin), since the first Granvin Church was built there. The first element is grǫn which means "spruce" and the last element is vin which means "meadow" or "pasture". Granvin is one of few parishes in Western Norway with spruce forests.
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