Dalen is the administrative centre of

Tokke Tokke is a municipality in Telemark in the county of Vestfold og Telemark in Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Vest-Telemark. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Dalen. The municipality of Tokke was c ...

municipality,

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. Its population ( SSB 2005) is 801. Dalen is located on and around the delta where the river

flows into the west end of the lake

Bandak Bandak is a lake in the municipalities of Kviteseid and Tokke in Vestfold og Telemark county, Norway. The lake, which is part of the Telemark Canal route, belongs to the Skien watershed. The river Tokke flows into the lake, and the outlet i ...

. Dalen is the westernmost endpoint of the

Telemark Canal The Telemark Canal connects the towns Skien and Dalen in southern Norway by linking several long lakes in the Skien watershed through a series of 18 locks. It originally consisted of two canals. The Norsjø–Skien Canal, with locks in Skien a ...

which runs to

Skien Skien () is a city and municipality in Vestfold og Telemark county in Norway. In modern times it is regarded as part of the traditional region of Grenland, although historically it belonged to Grenmar/Skiensfjorden, while Grenland referred the ...

in the east, and became a tourist site with the canal traffic. Dalen Hotel, built in 1894, is among the largest wooden buildings in Norway. Also in Dalen is the

hydroelectric power station Hydroelectricity, or hydroelectric power, is electricity generated from hydropower (water power). Hydropower supplies one sixth of the world's electricity, almost 4500 TWh in 2020, which is more than all other renewable sources combined an ...

Tokke kraftverk which exploits the fall from the lake Vinje. Statkraft's regional headquarters for eastern Norway are located in Dalen, and manages 38 power stations. Dalen's population increased as the power systems were constructed in the 1950s, but declined again in the 1960s.

Use of preposition with ''Dalen''

"In Dalen" is translated ''på Dalen''—literally "on Dalen".

References

Villages in Vestfold og Telemark Tokke {{telemark-geo-stub