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Eidsvåg, Bergen
Eidsvåg is a neighborhood in the city of Bergen in Vestland county, Norway. The village area lies in the borough of Åsane in the northern part of the city. It is located north of Sandviken, Ytre Sandviken, northwest of Jordal, southwest of Ervik, Hordaland, Ervik and south of Eidsvågen, an arm of Byfjorden (Hordaland), Byfjorden. Eidsvåg was the administrative center of the former municipality of Åsane (municipality), Åsane, until 1972 when Åsane was merged into the city of Bergen. The area is mainly residential. It has Eidsvåg School, Eidsvåg Church, a slaughterhouse for Nortura, a marina, and the former Eidsvåg Fabrikker. In 2009, Eidsvåg had 2,965 residents and covered . References Neighbourhoods of Bergen {{Bergen-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eidsvåg
Eidsvåg may refer to: People * Bjørn Eidsvåg, a Norwegian singer, songwriter and priest Places * Eidsvåg, Nesset, a village in Molde municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway * Eidsvåg, Bergen, a neighbourhood in the city of Bergen in Vestland county, Norway Other * Eidsvåg IL (Hordaland), a football club in Bergen, Norway * , a Norwegian coaster {{dab, geo, surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bergen
Bergen (, ) is a city and municipalities of Norway, municipality in Vestland county on the Western Norway, west coast of Norway. Bergen is the list of towns and cities in Norway, second-largest city in Norway after the capital Oslo. By May 2025 the population is 294 029 according to Statistics Norway. The municipality covers and is on the peninsula of Bergenshalvøyen. The city centre and northern neighbourhoods are on Byfjorden (Hordaland), Byfjorden, 'the city fjord'. The city is surrounded by mountains, causing Bergen to be called the "city of Seven Mountains, Bergen, seven mountains". Many of the extra-municipal suburbs are on islands. Bergen is the administrative centre of Vestland county. The city consists of eight boroughs: Arna, Bergen, Arna, Bergenhus, Fana, Bergen, Fana, Fyllingsdalen, Laksevåg, Ytrebygda, Årstad, Bergen, Årstad, and Åsane. Trading in Bergen may have started as early as the 1020s. According to tradition, the city was founded in 1070 by King Ol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vestland
Vestland is a Counties of Norway, county in Norway. The county is located in Western Norway, and its administrative centre is Bergen, where the executive and political leadership is based. The County governor (Norway), County Governor is based in Hermansverk. Vestland is one of two counties in Norway that have Nynorsk as their official written language form. Vestland was created on 1 January 2020, when the former counties of Hordaland and Sogn og Fjordane were merged. History Vestland county is a newly created county, but it has been inhabited for millennia. The area was made up of many petty kingdoms under the Gulating during the Middle Ages. The northern part was then known as ''Firdafylke'' (now the Fjordane region; Nordfjord-Sunnfjord), the central area was known as ''Sygnafylke'' (now the Sogn region), and the southern part was known as ''Hordafylke''. In the early 16th century, Norway was divided into four ''len''. The Bergenhus len was headquartered in Bergen and encompa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norway
Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard also form part of the Kingdom of Norway. Bouvet Island, located in the Subantarctic, is a Dependencies of Norway, dependency, and not a part of the Kingdom; Norway also Territorial claims in Antarctica, claims the Antarctic territories of Peter I Island and Queen Maud Land. Norway has a population of 5.6 million. Its capital and largest city is Oslo. The country has a total area of . The country shares a long eastern border with Sweden, and is bordered by Finland and Russia to the northeast. Norway has an extensive coastline facing the Skagerrak strait, the North Atlantic Ocean, and the Barents Sea. The unified kingdom of Norway was established in 872 as a merger of Petty kingdoms of Norway, petty kingdoms and has existed continuously for years. From 1537 to 1814, Norway ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Åsane
Åsane is a borough of the city of Bergen in Vestland county, Norway. The borough makes up the northern part of the city, north of the city centre. Åsane is connected to downtown Bergen by the E16/ E39 highway. The E16 highway continues on through Åsane to the southeast to the neighboring borough of Arna. The E39 highway continues north through Åsane to the Nordhordland Bridge and then on to the northern municipalities in Vestland county. There are plans to shorten the E39 highway through Åsane, including the construction of two tunnels: Eikås Tunnel (start of construction 2010) and the Nyborg Tunnel (still in the planning stages). Most buses passing through Åsane stop at the centrally located Åsane Terminal. History The area that is now the borough of Åsane was historically called ''Aasene'' and it was a parish in the large municipality of Hamre from 1838 until 1 January 1904, when it was separated from Hamre to become a separate municipality. The new municipa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sandviken
Sandviken is a locality and the seat of Sandviken Municipality in Gävleborg County, Sweden with 26,438 inhabitants in 2023. It is situated about 25 km west of Gävle and lies approximately 190 km north of Stockholm. The rail journey to Stockholm takes about 1.5 hours and to Arlanda, Sweden's main international airport, around an hour. Sandviken is the home town of the major high-technology Swedish engineering concern Sandvik and the main office of the company was located in Sandviken until January 2012 when it was moved to Stockholm. Culture and recreation Sandviken is home to a number of cultural activities: Kulturskolan means "the culture school" (extramural music, dance and drama training), Sandviken Big Band, Sandviken Symphonic Orchestra and many musicians in the region. Sandvikens Art Gallery shows throughout the year various interesting exhibitions. Amongst the many popular tourist attractions in the municipality, the following merit special mention: the attr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jordal
Jordal is a neighbourhood in the borough of Gamle Oslo in Oslo, Norway. The neighbourhood is in a small valley between Kampen, Norway, Kampen and Vålerenga, on a portion of the land previously occupied by the Nedre Valle farm. The area then became part of the Aker, Norway, Aker municipality until 1878, when Aker was incorporated into Kristiania (renamed Oslo in 1925). Jordal on the site now occupied by the Jordal Amfi, built as Ice hockey arena, the venue for ice hockey at the 1952 Winter Olympics. The area is served by Ensjø (station), Ensjø station on the Oslo Metro. See also *Jordal Idrettspark *Jordal IF - a defunct sports club that used the Jordal facilities *Vålerengens IF - a sports club that uses the Jordal facilities References External links Neighbourhoods of Oslo Gamle Oslo {{coord, 59.9103, 10.7838, type:landmark_region:NO, display=title ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Byfjorden (Hordaland)
Byfjorden (Norwegian Nynorsk and Bokmål: /byːfjɔrn/, /-ɔɾn/; Bokmål: also /-ɔɳ/; Bergensk: usually /-ɔʁn/) is a fjord in Vestland county, Norway. The long fjord separates the island of Askøy from the mainland Bergen Peninsula, passing right north of the city of Bergen Bergen (, ) is a city and municipalities of Norway, municipality in Vestland county on the Western Norway, west coast of Norway. Bergen is the list of towns and cities in Norway, second-largest city in Norway after the capital Oslo. By May 20 ... on the mainland. The western entrance to Byfjorden is between the village of Drotningsvik in Laksevåg borough, Bergen, and the village of Marikoven on the island of Askøy in Askøy municipality. The northern entrance to the fjord is between the village of Ask on Askøy and Mjølkeråen in the borough of Åsane in Bergen. On the northern end, it connects with the Salhusfjorden and Herdlefjorden. There is one road crossing over the Byfjorden: th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Åsane (municipality)
Åsane is a List of former municipalities of Norway, former municipality in the old Hordaland county in Norway. The municipality existed from 1904 until 1972. The municipality encompassed the northern part of the Bergen Peninsula, roughly corresponding to the present-day borough of Åsane in the city-municipality of Bergen. The administrative centre of the municipality was the village of Eidsvåg, Bergen, Eidsvåg. The main church for the municipality was Åsane Church. Historically, the area was called ''Aasene'', but with spelling reforms in the Norwegian language, the modern spelling has been ''Åsane'' since about 1920. History The large prestegjeld, parish of Hamre (municipality), Hammer existed for many centuries and within the parish existed the annex of ''Aasene''. On 1 January 1904, the annex of Aasene (population: 1,625) was separated from the rest of Hammer to become a separate municipality. The original municipality included the northern part of the Bergen Penins ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eidsvåg Church
Eidsvåg Church () is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Bergen Municipality in Vestland county, Norway. It is located in the Eidsvåg neighborhood in the city of Bergen. It is the church for the Eidsvåg parish which is part of the Åsane prosti (deanery) in the Diocese of Bjørgvin. The large, white, concrete church was built in a rectangular design in 1981 using plans drawn up by the architectural firm ''Lund + Slaatto Arkitekter'' from Oslo. The church is a large cube shape, seating about 300 people, and the main sanctuary is expandable up to 500 people. History Efforts to get a church built in Eidsvåg began in 1942, but it was a long time until this work came to fruition. In 1969, there was an architectural competition to design the new church and the firm ''Lund + Slaatto Arkitekter'' from Oslo won. In 1971, a Royal Decree was issued granting permission to construct the new church. It would be part of the Åsane Church parish as an annex church. Work did not begin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nortura
Nortura is a Norwegian agricultural cooperative that operates slaughterhouses and other processing plants related to meat and eggs. The company was created as a merger between Gilde Norsk Kjøtt and Prior Norge in 2006, and has head offices in Oslo. Nortura is Norway's biggest food supplier. It processed 222 thousand tonnes of meat at 31 plants in 2017. The company is owned by about 18,900 farmers throughout the country and is one of 13 agricultural cooperatives in Norway. Annual revenue is NOK 23,5 billion. The main brands include Gilde (red meat), Prior The term prior may refer to: * Prior (ecclesiastical), the head of a priory (monastery) * Prior convictions, the life history and previous convictions of a suspect or defendant in a criminal case * Prior probability, in Bayesian statistics * Prio ... (white meat and eggs), Alfathi (halal slaughtered meat), and Eldhus (smoked meat). References {{Authority control Food and drink companies of Norway Agricultural cooper ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
