Åseral

Åseral Municipality

*Åseral kommune*
Åseral Municipality Åseral kommune
Municipality
	Flag Coat of arms
	Vest-Agder within Norway
	Åseral within Vest-Agder
Country	Norway
County	Vest-Agder
District	Sørlandet
Administrative centre	Kyrkjebygda
Government
• Mayor (2007)	Oddmund Ljosland (Sp)
Area
• Total	887 km2 (342 sq mi)
• Land	798 km2 (308 sq mi)
• Rank	#126 in Norway
Population (2008)
• Total	905
• Rank	#412 in Norway
• Density	1/km2 (3/sq mi)
• Change (10 years)	+10%
Demonym	Åsdøl
Official language
• Norwegian form	Nynorsk
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
ISO 3166 code	NO-1026
Website	Official website
	Data from Statistics Norway

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Åseral is a municipality in Vest-Agder county, Norway. The administrative center is the village of Kyrkjebygda.

The parish of Bjelland had to be divided into two formannskapsdistrikts on 1 January 1838. This is because the main part of Bjelland belonged to the county of Vest-Agder, while the annex Aaseral belonged to the county of Aust-Agder. Åseral was transferred from the county of Aust-Agder to the county of Vest-Agder on 1 September 1880.

It is an inland municipality, bordering on the county of Aust-Agder in the east and north. In the south, it borders on the municipality of Audnedal, in the south-east on Hægebostad, and in the west on Kvinesdal.

General information

Name

The Old Norse form of the name was Ásaráll. The first part of the word is probably the genitive case of áss (m.), meaning "mountain ridge". The last part, áll (m.) means "long strip", probably referring to the long and narrow lake Øre.

Coat-of-arms

The coat-of-arms is from modern times (1989). It shows a horseshoe (to represent agriculture, forestry, and good luck).

Attractions

Åseral is a popular tourist destination with three ski resorts: Bortelid, Ljosland, and Eikerapen. Eikerapen is also the site of the annual Eikerapen Roots Festival, an international music festival attracting thousands of people from all over Europe.

References

^ "Navn på steder og personer: Innbyggjarnamn" (in Norwegian). Språkrådet.
^ "Forskrift om målvedtak i kommunar og fylkeskommunar" (in Norwegian). Lovdata.no.
^ Bolstad, Erik; Thorsnæs, Geir, eds. (2023-01-26). "Kommunenummer". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Kunnskapsforlaget.

External links

Media related to Åseral at Wikimedia Commons
The dictionary definition of Åseral at Wiktionary
Municipal fact sheet from Statistics Norway
Vest-Agder travel guide from Wikivoyage

[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. (2023-01-26). "Kommunenummer". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Kunnskapsforlaget.

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