Leksvik, the Glossary
Leksvik is a former municipality in the old Nord-Trøndelag county (now in Trøndelag county), Norway.[1]
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- 2018 disestablishments in Norway
Administrative centre
An administrative centre is a seat of regional administration or local government, or a county town, or the place where the central administration of a commune, is located.
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Agriculture
Agriculture encompasses crop and livestock production, aquaculture, fisheries, and forestry for food and non-food products.
Argent
In heraldry, argent is the tincture of silver, and belongs to the class of light tinctures called "metals".
Article (grammar)
In grammar, an article is any member of a class of dedicated words that are used with noun phrases to mark the identifiability of the referents of the noun phrases.
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Azure (heraldry)
In heraldry, azure is the tincture with the colour blue, and belongs to the class of tinctures called "colours".
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Bjørn Lyng
Bjørn Lyng (8 July 1925 – 12 October 2006) was a Norwegian businessman, investor and industrialist.
Black Death
The Black Death was a bubonic plague pandemic occurring in Europe from 1346 to 1353.
Blazon
In heraldry and heraldic vexillology, a blazon is a formal description of a coat of arms, flag or similar emblem, from which the reader can reconstruct the appropriate image.
Bomb
A bomb is an explosive weapon that uses the exothermic reaction of an explosive material to provide an extremely sudden and violent release of energy.
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Centre Party (Norway)
The Centre Party (Senterpartiet, Sp; Guovddášbellodat), formerly the Farmer's Party (Bondepartiet, Bp), is an agrarian political party in Norway.
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Chevron (insignia)
A chevron (also spelled cheveron, especially in older documents) is a V-shaped mark or symbol, often inverted.
See Leksvik and Chevron (insignia)
Christian Democratic Party (Norway)
The Christian Democratic Party (Kristelig Folkeparti, Kristeleg Folkeparti,, KrF; Risttalaš Álbmotbellodat) is a Christian-democratic political party in Norway founded in 1933.
See Leksvik and Christian Democratic Party (Norway)
Christopher Winther Scheen
Christopher Winther Scheen, by Carl Lund.
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Church of Norway
The Church of Norway (Den norske kirke, Den norske kyrkja, Norgga girku, Nöörjen gærhkoe) is an evangelical Lutheran denomination of Protestant Christianity and by far the largest Christian church in Norway.
See Leksvik and Church of Norway
Clover
Clover, also called trefoil, are plants of the genus Trifolium (from Latin tres 'three' + folium 'leaf'), consisting of about 300 species of flowering plants in the legume family Fabaceae originating in Europe.
Coat of arms
A coat of arms is a heraldic visual design on an escutcheon (i.e., shield), surcoat, or tabard (the last two being outer garments).
Commerce
Commerce is the large-scale organized system of activities, functions, procedures and institutions that directly or indirectly contribute to the smooth, unhindered distribution and transfer of goods and services on a substantial scale and at the right time, place, quantity, quality and price through various channels from the original producers to the final consumers within local, regional, national or international economies.
Conservative Party (Norway)
The Conservative Party or The Right (Høyre, Høgre,, H; Olgešbellodat) is a liberal-conservative political party in Norway.
See Leksvik and Conservative Party (Norway)
Counties of Norway
There are 15 counties in Norway. The 15 counties are administrative regions that are the first-level administrative divisions of Norway.
See Leksvik and Counties of Norway
Cutting
Cutting is the separation or opening of a physical object, into two or more portions, through the application of an acutely directed force.
Dalbygda
Dalbygda is a village in the municipality of Indre Fosen in Trøndelag county, Norway.
Deanery
A deanery (or decanate) is an ecclesiastical entity in the Roman Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Anglican Communion, the Evangelical Church in Germany, and the Church of Norway.
Decree
A decree is a legal proclamation, usually issued by a head of state, judge, royal figure, or other relevant authorities, according to certain procedures.
Diocese of Nidaros
Nidaros is a diocese in the Lutheran Church of Norway.
See Leksvik and Diocese of Nidaros
Direct election
Direct election is a system of choosing political officeholders in which the voters directly cast ballots for the persons or political party that they wanted to see elected.
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Division of the field
In heraldry, the field (background) of a shield can be divided into more than one area, or subdivision, of different tinctures, usually following the lines of one of the ordinaries and carrying its name (e.g. a shield divided in the shape of a chevron is said to be parted "per chevron").
See Leksvik and Division of the field
Downtown
Downtown is a term primarily used in North America by English speakers to refer to a city's sometimes commercial, cultural and often the historical, political, and geographic heart.
Economic development
In the economics study of the public sector, economic and social development is the process by which the economic well-being and quality of life of a nation, region, local community, or an individual are improved according to targeted goals and objectives.
See Leksvik and Economic development
Einar Strøm (politician)
Einar Strøm (born 2 March 1945) is a Norwegian politician for the Centre Party.
See Leksvik and Einar Strøm (politician)
Electric power
Electric power is the rate of transfer of electrical energy within a circuit.
See Leksvik and Electric power
Embowed
Embowed is a term in heraldry and architecture which means.
Field (heraldry)
In heraldry, the background of the shield is called the field.
See Leksvik and Field (heraldry)
Fjord
In physical geography, a fjord or fiord is a long, narrow sea inlet with steep sides or cliffs, created by a glacier.
Forest
A forest is an ecosystem characterized by a dense community of trees.
Formannskapsdistrikt
Formannskapsdistrikt is the name for Norwegian local self-government districts that were legally enacted on 1 January 1838.
See Leksvik and Formannskapsdistrikt
Fortification
A fortification (also called a fort, fortress, fastness, or stronghold) is a military construction designed for the defense of territories in warfare, and is used to establish rule in a region during peacetime.
Fosen
Fosen is a traditional district in Trøndelag, consisting of the municipalities Osen, Roan, Åfjord, Ørland, Indre Fosen, Orkland, Heim, Hitra and Frøya.
Frosta
Frosta is the smallest municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. Leksvik and Frosta are 1838 establishments in Norway.
Genitive case
In grammar, the genitive case (abbreviated) is the grammatical case that marks a word, usually a noun, as modifying another word, also usually a noun—thus indicating an attributive relationship of one noun to the other noun.
Glacier
A glacier is a persistent body of dense ice that is constantly moving downhill under its own weight.
Goat
The goat or domestic goat (Capra hircus) is a species of domesticated goat-antelope that is mostly kept as livestock.
See Leksvik and Goat
Great Norwegian Encyclopedia
The Great Norwegian Encyclopedia (Store Norske Leksikon, abbreviated SNL) is a Norwegian-language online encyclopedia.
See Leksvik and Great Norwegian Encyclopedia
Health care
Health care, or healthcare, is the improvement of health via the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, amelioration or cure of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in people.
High tech
High technology (high tech or high-tech), also known as advanced technology (advanced tech) or exotechnology, is technology that is at the cutting edge: the highest form of technology available.
Ice age
An ice age is a long period of reduction in the temperature of Earth's surface and atmosphere, resulting in the presence or expansion of continental and polar ice sheets and alpine glaciers.
Indirect election
An indirect election or hierarchical voting, is an election in which voters do not choose directly among candidates or parties for an office (direct voting system), but elect people who in turn choose candidates or parties.
See Leksvik and Indirect election
Indre Fosen
Indre Fosen is a municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway.
Ingebjørg Karmhus
Ingebjørg Karmhus (21 December 1936 – 26 February 2009) was a Norwegian politician for the Centre Party.
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Inlet
An inlet is a (usually long and narrow) indentation of a shoreline, such as a small arm, cove, bay, sound, fjord, lagoon or marsh, that leads to an enclosed larger body of water such as a lake, estuary, gulf or marginal sea.
Kunnskapsforlaget
Kunnskapsforlaget is a Norwegian publishing company based in Oslo.
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Leksvik (village)
Leksvik is a village in Indre Fosen municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway.
See Leksvik and Leksvik (village)
Leksvik Church
Leksvik Church (Leksvik kirke) is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Indre Fosen municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway.
See Leksvik and Leksvik Church
Liberal Party (Norway)
The Liberal Party (Venstre,, V; Gurutbellodat) is a centrist political party in Norway.
See Leksvik and Liberal Party (Norway)
List of churches in Nidaros
This list of churches in Nidaros is a list of the Church of Norway churches in the Diocese of Nidaros in Norway.
See Leksvik and List of churches in Nidaros
List of former municipalities of Norway
This is a list of former municipalities of Norway, i.e. municipalities that no longer exist. Leksvik and list of former municipalities of Norway are former municipalities of Norway.
See Leksvik and List of former municipalities of Norway
Longboat
A longboat is a type of ship's boat that was in use from circa 1500 or before.
Mayor
In many countries, a mayor is the highest-ranking official in a municipal government such as that of a city or a town.
Meltingvatnet
Meltingvatnet is a lake on the border of the municipalities of Indre Fosen and Inderøy in Trøndelag county, Norway.
Moose
The moose ('moose'; used in North America) or elk ('elk' or 'elks'; used in Eurasia) (Alces alces) is the world's tallest, largest and heaviest extant species of deer and the only species in the genus Alces.
Mountain
A mountain is an elevated portion of the Earth's crust, generally with steep sides that show significant exposed bedrock.
Municipal council
A municipal council is the legislative body of a municipality or local government area.
See Leksvik and Municipal council
Museum
A museum is an institution dedicated to displaying and/or preserving culturally or scientifically significant objects.
Nord-Trøndelag
Nord-Trøndelag ("North Trøndelag") was a county constituting the northern part of the present-day Trøndelag county in Norway. Leksvik and nord-Trøndelag are 2018 disestablishments in Norway.
See Leksvik and Nord-Trøndelag
Norsk Lovtidend
Norsk Lovtidend (Norwegian Law Gazette) is a Norwegian periodical published by the Ministry of Justice and the Police.
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Norway
Norway (Norge, Noreg), formally the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, situated on the Scandinavian Peninsula.
Norwegian County Road 755
Norwegian County Road 755 (Fylkesvei 755) is a county road in Trøndelag county, Norway.
See Leksvik and Norwegian County Road 755
Old age
Old age is the range of ages for people nearing and surpassing life expectancy.
Operation Weserübung
Operation Weserübung (Unternehmen Weserübung,, 9 April – 10 June 1940) was the invasion of Denmark and Norway by Nazi Germany during the Second World War and the opening operation of the Norwegian Campaign.
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Political party
A political party is an organization that coordinates candidates to compete in a particular country's elections.
See Leksvik and Political party
Population density
Population density (in agriculture: standing stock or plant density) is a measurement of population per unit land area.
See Leksvik and Population density
Prestegjeld
A prestegjeld was a geographic and administrative area within the Church of Norway (Den Norske Kirke) roughly equivalent to a parish.
Primary education
Primary education or elementary education is typically the first stage of formal education, coming after preschool/kindergarten and before secondary school.
See Leksvik and Primary education
Recorded history
Recorded history or written history describes the historical events that have been recorded in a written form or other documented communication which are subsequently evaluated by historians using the historical method.
See Leksvik and Recorded history
Reindeer
The reindeer or caribou (Rangifer tarandus) is a species of deer with circumpolar distribution, native to Arctic, subarctic, tundra, boreal, and mountainous regions of Northern Europe, Siberia, and North America.
Residential area
A residential area is a land used in which housing predominates, as opposed to industrial and commercial areas.
See Leksvik and Residential area
Rissa, Norway
Rissa is a former municipality in the old Sør-Trøndelag county in Norway in the Fosen region. Leksvik and Rissa, Norway are 2018 disestablishments in Norway, former municipalities of Norway and Populated places disestablished in 2018.
Road
A road is a thoroughfare for the conveyance of traffic that mostly has an improved surface for use by vehicles (motorized and non-motorized) and pedestrians.
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Ruins
Ruins are the remains of a civilization's architecture.
Salmon
Salmon (salmon) is the common name for several commercially important species of euryhaline ray-finned fish from the genera Salmo and Oncorhynchus of the family Salmonidae, native to tributaries of the North Atlantic (Salmo) and North Pacific (Oncorhynchus) basins.
Secondary sector of the economy
In macroeconomics, the secondary sector of the economy is an economic sector in the three-sector theory that describes the role of manufacturing.
See Leksvik and Secondary sector of the economy
Seter, Indre Fosen
Seter is a village located along the Trondheimsfjord in the municipality of Indre Fosen in Trøndelag county, Norway.
See Leksvik and Seter, Indre Fosen
Social work is an academic discipline and practice-based profession concerned with meeting the basic needs of individuals, families, groups, communities, and society as a whole to enhance their individual and collective well-being.
Statistics Norway
Statistics Norway (Statistisk sentralbyrå, abbreviated to SSB) is the Norwegian statistics bureau.
See Leksvik and Statistics Norway
Stave church
A stave church is a medieval wooden Christian church building once common in north-western Europe.
Storvatnet (Indre Fosen)
Storvatnet is a lake in the municipality of Indre Fosen in Trøndelag county, Norway.
See Leksvik and Storvatnet (Indre Fosen)
Stranda Church (Leksvik)
Stranda Church (Stranda kirke) is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Indre Fosen municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway.
See Leksvik and Stranda Church (Leksvik)
Sverre of Norway
Sverre Sigurdsson (Sverrir Sigurðarson) (c. 1145/1151 – 9 March 1202) was the king of Norway from 1184 to 1202.
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Temperance Party (Norway)
The Temperance Party (Avholdspartiet) was a political party in Norway.
See Leksvik and Temperance Party (Norway)
Tincture (heraldry)
Tincture is the limited palette of colours and patterns used in heraldry.
See Leksvik and Tincture (heraldry)
Tomb
A tomb (τύμβος tumbos) or sepulcher (sepulcrum.) is a repository for the remains of the dead.
See Leksvik and Tomb
Trøndelag
Trøndelag (or is a county and coextensive with the Trøndelag region (also known as Midt-Norge or Midt-Noreg, "Mid-Norway") in the central part of Norway. It was created in 1687, then named Trondhjem County (Trondhjems Amt); in 1804 the county was split into Nord-Trøndelag and Sør-Trøndelag by the King of Denmark-Norway, and the counties were reunited in 2018 after a vote of the two counties in 2016.
Trefoil
A trefoil is a graphic form composed of the outline of three overlapping rings, used in architecture, Pagan and Christian symbolism, among other areas.
Trondheim
Trondheim (Tråante), historically Kaupangen, Nidaros, and Trondhjem, is a city and municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway.
Trondheim Fjord
The Trondheim Fjord or Trondheimsfjorden, an inlet of the Norwegian Sea, is Norway's third-longest fjord at long.
See Leksvik and Trondheim Fjord
Unemployment
Unemployment, according to the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development), is people above a specified age (usually 15) not being in paid employment or self-employment but currently available for work during the reference period.
Vanvikan
Vanvikan is a village in the municipality of Indre Fosen in Trøndelag county, Norway.
Viking Age
The Viking Age (about) was the period during the Middle Ages when Norsemen known as Vikings undertook large-scale raiding, colonising, conquest, and trading throughout Europe and reached North America.
Wildlife
Wildlife refers to undomesticated animal species, but has come to include all organisms that grow or live wild in an area without being introduced by humans.
World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.
Zoning
In urban planning, zoning is a method in which a municipality or other tier of government divides land into "zones", each of which has a set of regulations for new development that differs from other zones.
See also
2018 disestablishments in Norway
- Byavisa Sandefjord
- FlyViking
- Hesnes Air
- Hof Municipality (Vestfold)
- Lardal
- Leksvik
- Mo IL
- Nøtterøy
- Nord-Trøndelag
- Oslo and Akershus University College
- Rissa, Norway
- Sør-Trøndelag
- Tjøme
- Tour des Fjords
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leksvik
Also known as Coat of arms of Leksvik, Leksvik Municipality.
, Leksvik (village), Leksvik Church, Liberal Party (Norway), List of churches in Nidaros, List of former municipalities of Norway, Longboat, Mayor, Meltingvatnet, Moose, Mountain, Municipal council, Museum, Nord-Trøndelag, Norsk Lovtidend, Norway, Norwegian County Road 755, Old age, Operation Weserübung, Political party, Population density, Prestegjeld, Primary education, Recorded history, Reindeer, Residential area, Rissa, Norway, Road, Ruins, Salmon, Secondary sector of the economy, Seter, Indre Fosen, Social work, Statistics Norway, Stave church, Storvatnet (Indre Fosen), Stranda Church (Leksvik), Sverre of Norway, Temperance Party (Norway), Tincture (heraldry), Tomb, Trøndelag, Trefoil, Trondheim, Trondheim Fjord, Unemployment, Vanvikan, Viking Age, Wildlife, World War II, Zoning.