Dueland or Dualand is a village in

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municipality,

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. It is located just west of the larger village of Skjoldastraumen.

History

It was previously located in Skjold municipality. On 1 January 1965, Skjold municipality was dissolved, and its territory dispersed between three municipalities. The districts surrounding

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, Dueland, and Grinde, with 1,133 inhabitants in total, were moved to Tysvær municipality. People with the surname Dueland could be people from this farm, but typically people with that last name hail from a different farm called Dueland in

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. Several of those residents emigrated to the US, particularly to

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References

Villages in Rogaland Tysvær {{Rogaland-geo-stub