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Vågå

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Vågå is a municipality in Oppland county, Norway. [1]

101 relations: Accusative case, Arne Brimi, Øystre Slidre, Baptismal font, Battle of Kringen, Benjamin Blessum, Besseggen, Birkebeiner, Centre Party (Norway), Child sexual abuse, Christian VIII of Denmark, Christianity, Coat of arms, Continental climate, Counties of Norway, Crucifix, Dale-Gudbrand, Dative case, Districts of Norway, Dovre, Eastern Norway, Edvard Storm, Eidfjord, Erosion, Flatningen, Formannskapsdistrikt, Gjesling, Glacier, Gothic art, Gudbrandsdalen, Gudbrandsdalslågen, Hang gliding, Heidal, Heimskringla, Henrik Ibsen, Imprisonment, Ivar Kleiven, Jotunheimen, Jotunheimen National Park, Kristian Prestgard, Labour Party (Norway), Lalm, Last Glacial Maximum, Lendmann, Lesja, List of municipalities of Norway, Lom, Norway, Magnus IV of Norway, Mammoth, Mayor, ..., Ministry of Culture (Norway), Nominative case, Nord-Fron, Norway, Norwegian Americans, Nynorsk, Olaf II of Norway, Old Norse, Ole Paulssøn Haagenstad, Oppland, Otta (river), Otta, Norway, Ottadalen, Paragliding, Parish, Peer Gynt, Poet, Porsanger, Prillar-Guri, Quaternary, Ragnvald Skrede, Rain shadow, Reindeer, Rendalen, Rondane National Park, Rune Øygard, Saga, Saint Peter, Scotland, Sel, Sigrid Undset, Sister city, Sjodalen, Skjåk, Sled, Snorri Sturluson, Statistics Norway, Stave church, Sverre of Norway, Sweden, Thing (assembly), Tierp Municipality, Travel, Tromsø, Uppsala County, Vadsø, Vang, Oppland, Vågå Church, Vågåmo, Vågåvatn, Western Norway. Expand index (51 more) »

Accusative case

The accusative case (abbreviated) of a noun is the grammatical case used to mark the direct object of a transitive verb.

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Arne Brimi

Arne Olav Brimi (born 1 October 1957), is a famous Norwegian chef and food writer.

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Øystre Slidre

Øystre Slidre is a municipality in Oppland county, Norway.

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Baptismal font

A baptismal font is an article of church furniture used for baptism.

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Battle of Kringen

The Battle of Kringen (Slaget ved Kringen) involved an ambush by Norwegian peasant militia of Scottish mercenary soldiers who were on their way to enlist in the Swedish army for the Kalmar War.

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Benjamin Blessum

Benjamin Blessum (November 4, 1877 – October 4, 1954) was an American painter, graphic artist and illustrator.

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Besseggen

Besseggen, or Besseggi, is a mountain ridge in Vågå kommune in Oppland county, Norway.

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Birkebeiner

The Birkebein Party or Birkebeinar (Old Norse: Birkibeinar; Norwegian: Birkebeinarane (nynorsk) or Birkebeinerne (bokmål)) was the name for a rebellious party in Norway, formed in 1174 around the pretender to the Norwegian throne, Eystein Meyla.

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Centre Party (Norway)

The Centre Party (Senterpartiet, Sp) is an agrarian centrist political party in Norway.

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Child sexual abuse

Child sexual abuse, also called child molestation, is a form of child abuse in which an adult or older adolescent uses a child for sexual stimulation.

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Christian VIII of Denmark

Christian VIII (18 September 1786 – 20 January 1848) was the King of Denmark from 1839 to 1848 and, as Christian Frederick, King of Norway in 1814.

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Christianity

ChristianityFrom Ancient Greek Χριστός Khristós (Latinized as Christus), translating Hebrew מָשִׁיחַ, Māšîăḥ, meaning "the anointed one", with the Latin suffixes -ian and -itas.

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Coat of arms

A coat of arms is a heraldic visual design on an escutcheon (i.e., shield), surcoat, or tabard.

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Continental climate

Continental climates are defined in the Köppen climate classification as having the coldest month with the temperature never rising above 0.0° C (32°F) all month long.

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Counties of Norway

Norway is divided into 18 administrative regions, called counties (singular fylke, plural fylker (Bokmål) / fylke (Nynorsk) from Old Norse: fylki from the word "folk"); until 1918, they were known as amter.

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Crucifix

A crucifix (from Latin cruci fixus meaning "(one) fixed to a cross") is an image of Jesus on the cross, as distinct from a bare cross.

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Dale-Gudbrand

Dale-Gudbrand is a historical Norwegian person that appears in the Separate Saga of St. Olaf in Snorri Sturluson's Heimskringla.

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Dative case

The dative case (abbreviated, or sometimes when it is a core argument) is a grammatical case used in some languages to indicate, among other uses, the noun to which something is given, as in "Maria Jacobī potum dedit", Latin for "Maria gave Jacob a drink".

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Districts of Norway

The country Norway is historically divided into a number of districts.

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Dovre

Dovre is a municipality in Oppland county, Norway.

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Eastern Norway

Eastern Norway (Bokmål: Østlandet, Nynorsk: Austlandet) is the geographical region of the south-eastern part of Norway.

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Edvard Storm

Edvard Storm (21 August 1749 – 29 September 1794) was an 18th-century Norwegian poet, songwriter and educator.

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Eidfjord

Eidfjord is a municipality in Hordaland county, Norway.

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Erosion

In earth science, erosion is the action of surface processes (such as water flow or wind) that remove soil, rock, or dissolved material from one location on the Earth's crust, and then transport it to another location (not to be confused with weathering which involves no movement).

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Flatningen

Flatningen is a lake in the municipality of Vågå in Oppland county, Norway.

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Formannskapsdistrikt

Formannskapsdistrikt is the name for Norwegian local self-government districts that were legally enacted on 1 January 1838.

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Gjesling

Gjesling (or Gjæsling) was an old family at Vågå in Oppland, Norway.

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Glacier

A glacier is a persistent body of dense ice that is constantly moving under its own weight; it forms where the accumulation of snow exceeds its ablation (melting and sublimation) over many years, often centuries.

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Gothic art

Gothic art was a style of medieval art that developed in Northern France out of Romanesque art in the 12th century AD, led by the concurrent development of Gothic architecture.

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Gudbrandsdalen

Gudbrandsdalen (Gudbrand Valley) is a valley and traditional district in the Norwegian county of Oppland.

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Gudbrandsdalslågen

The Gudbrandsdalslågen (or the Lågen) is a river which flows through the valley of Gudbrandsdal in Norway.

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Hang gliding

Hang gliding is an air sport or recreational activity in which a pilot flies a light, non-motorised foot-launched heavier-than-air aircraft called a hang glider.

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Heidal

Heidal is a valley and parish within the Gudbrand Valley, in the county of Oppland, Norway.

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Heimskringla

Heimskringla is the best known of the Old Norse kings' sagas.

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Henrik Ibsen

Henrik Johan Ibsen (20 March 1828 – 23 May 1906) was a Norwegian playwright, theatre director, and poet.

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Imprisonment

Imprisonment (from imprison Old French, French emprisonner, from en in + prison prison, from Latin prensio, arrest, from prehendere, prendere, to seize) is the restraint of a person's liberty, for any cause whatsoever, whether by authority of the government, or by a person acting without such authority.

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Ivar Kleiven

Ivar Kleiven (10 July 1854 - 19 February 1934) was a Norwegian politician, historian and poet.

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Jotunheimen

Jotunheimen (the home of the Jotnar) is a mountainous area of roughly 3,500 km² in southern Norway and is part of the long range known as the Scandinavian Mountains.

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Jotunheimen National Park

Jotunheimen (“Home of the Giants”) National Park (Jotunheimen nasjonalpark) is a national park in Norway, recognized as one of the country's premier hiking and fishing regions.

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Kristian Prestgard

Kristian Prestgard (29 April 1866 – 25 January 1946) was a Norwegian-born, American journalist and author.

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Labour Party (Norway)

The Labour Party (Arbeiderpartiet, A/Ap), formerly the Norwegian Labour Party, is a social-democratic political party in Norway.

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Lalm

Lalm is a village in the municipality of Vågå, Norway.

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Last Glacial Maximum

In the Earth's climate history the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) was the last time period during the last glacial period when ice sheets were at their greatest extension.

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Lendmann

Lendmann (plural lendmenn) (Old Norse lendr maðr), was a title in medieval Norway.

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Lesja

Lesja is a municipality in Oppland county, Norway.

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List of municipalities of Norway

Norway is divided into 18 administrative regions, called counties (fylker in Norwegian, singular: fylke), and 422 municipalities (kommuner/-ar, singular: kommune – cf. communes).

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Lom, Norway

Lom is a municipality in Oppland county, Norway.

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Magnus IV of Norway

Magnus IV Sigurdsson (ca. 1115 – 12 November 1139), also known as Magnus the Blind, was King of Norway from 1130 to 1135 and again from 1137 to 1139.

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Mammoth

A mammoth is any species of the extinct genus Mammuthus, proboscideans commonly equipped with long, curved tusks and, in northern species, a covering of long hair.

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Mayor

In many countries, a mayor (from the Latin maior, meaning "bigger") is the highest-ranking official in a municipal government such as that of a city or a town.

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Ministry of Culture (Norway)

The Royal Norwegian Ministry of Culture (Kulturdepartementet) is responsible for cultural policy, regulations and other matters related to the media and sports.

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Nominative case

The nominative case (abbreviated), subjective case, straight case or upright case is one of the grammatical cases of a noun or other part of speech, which generally marks the subject of a verb or the predicate noun or predicate adjective, as opposed to its object or other verb arguments.

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Nord-Fron

Nord-Fron is a municipality in Oppland county, Norway.

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Norway

Norway (Norwegian: (Bokmål) or (Nynorsk); Norga), officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a unitary sovereign state whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula plus the remote island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard.

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Norwegian Americans

Norwegian Americans (norskamerikanere) are Americans with ancestral roots from Norway.

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Nynorsk

Nynorsk (translates to New Norwegian or New Norse) is one of the two written standards of the Norwegian language, the other being Bokmål.

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Olaf II of Norway

Olaf II Haraldsson (995 – 29 July 1030), later known as St.

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Old Norse

Old Norse was a North Germanic language that was spoken by inhabitants of Scandinavia and inhabitants of their overseas settlements from about the 9th to the 13th century.

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Ole Paulssøn Haagenstad

Ole Paulssøn Haagenstad (17 October 1775 – 16 April 1866) was a Norwegian farmer and politician.

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Oppland

Oppland is a county in Norway, bordering Trøndelag, Møre og Romsdal, Sogn og Fjordane, Buskerud, Akershus, Oslo and Hedmark.

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Otta (river)

The Otta River flows through the Ottadal valley in the municipalities of Skjåk, Lom, Vågå, and Sel in Norway.

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Otta, Norway

is a town in the municipality of Sel in the county of Oppland in Norway.

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Ottadalen

The Otta Valley (Ottadalen) is a valley in the municipalities of Skjåk, Lom, Vågå, and Sel in the county of Oppland, Norway.

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Paragliding

Paragliding is the recreational and competitive adventure sport of flying paragliders: lightweight, free-flying, foot-launched glider aircraft with no rigid primary structure.

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Parish

A parish is a church territorial entity constituting a division within a diocese.

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Peer Gynt

Peer Gynt is a five-act play in verse by the Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen published in 1867.

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Poet

A poet is a person who creates poetry.

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Porsanger

Porsanger (Norwegian) or Porsáŋgu (Northern Sami) or Porsanki (Kven/Finnish) is a municipality in Finnmark county, Norway.

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Prillar-Guri

Prillar-Guri or Prillarguri is a semi legendary figure who according to oral tradition was a woman from Sel, Norway who played a key role in the Battle of Kringen (Slaget ved Kringen) in August 1612.

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Quaternary

Quaternary is the current and most recent of the three periods of the Cenozoic Era in the geologic time scale of the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS).

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Ragnvald Skrede

Ragnvald Skrede (24 April 1904 – 16 August 1983) was a Norwegian author, journalist, literature critic and translator.

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Rain shadow

A rain shadow is a dry area on the leeward side of a mountainous area (away from the wind).

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Reindeer

The reindeer (Rangifer tarandus), also known as the caribou in North America, is a species of deer with circumpolar distribution, native to Arctic, sub-Arctic, tundra, boreal and mountainous regions of northern Europe, Siberia and North America.

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Rendalen

Rendalen is a municipality in Hedmark county, Norway.

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Rondane National Park

Rondane National Park (Rondane nasjonalpark) is the oldest national park in Norway, established on 21 December 1962.

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Rune Øygard

Rune Øygard (born 27 April 1959) is a former Norwegian politician representing the Norwegian Labour Party, who served as mayor of Vågå from 1995 to 2012 when he was granted leave following his indictment for child sexual abuse in a much publicized case, the so-called Vågå case.

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Saga

Sagas are stories mostly about ancient Nordic and Germanic history, early Viking voyages, the battles that took place during the voyages, and migration to Iceland and of feuds between Icelandic families.

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Saint Peter

Saint Peter (Syriac/Aramaic: ܫܸܡܥܘܿܢ ܟܹ݁ܐܦ݂ܵܐ, Shemayon Keppa; שמעון בר יונה; Petros; Petros; Petrus; r. AD 30; died between AD 64 and 68), also known as Simon Peter, Simeon, or Simon, according to the New Testament, was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus Christ, leaders of the early Christian Great Church.

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Scotland

Scotland (Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and covers the northern third of the island of Great Britain.

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Sel

Sel is a municipality in Oppland county, Norway.

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Sigrid Undset

Sigrid Undset (20 May 1882 – 10 June 1949) was a Norwegian novelist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1928.

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Sister city

Twin towns or sister cities are a form of legal or social agreement between towns, cities, counties, oblasts, prefectures, provinces, regions, states, and even countries in geographically and politically distinct areas to promote cultural and commercial ties.

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Sjodalen

Sjodalen is a wide, gently sloping valley in Southern Norway, draining the eastern parts of Jotunheimen.

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Skjåk

Skjåk is a municipality in Oppland county, Norway.

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Sled

A sled, sledge, or sleigh is a land vehicle with a smooth underside or possessing a separate body supported by two or more smooth, relatively narrow, longitudinal runners that travels by sliding across a surface.

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Snorri Sturluson

Snorri Sturluson (1179 – 23 September 1241) was an Icelandic historian, poet, and politician.

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Statistics Norway

Statistics Norway (Statistisk sentralbyrå, abbreviated to SSB) is the Norwegian statistics bureau.

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Stave church

A stave church is a medieval wooden Christian church building once common in north-western Europe.

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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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Sweden

Sweden (Sverige), officially the Kingdom of Sweden (Swedish), is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe.

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Thing (assembly)

A thing, also known as Alþing, was the governing assembly of a northern Germanic society, made up of the free people of the community presided over by lawspeakers.

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Tierp Municipality

Tierp Municipality (Tierps kommun) is a municipality in Uppsala County in east central Sweden.

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Travel

Travel is the movement of people between distant geographical locations.

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Tromsø

Tromsø (Romsa; Tromssa; Tromssa) is a city and municipality in Troms county, Norway.

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Uppsala County

Uppsala County (Uppsala län) is a county or län on the eastern coast of Sweden.

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Vadsø

Vadsø (Čáhcesuolu; Vesisaari) is a municipality in Finnmark County, Norway.

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Vang, Oppland

Vang is a municipality in Oppland county, Norway.

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Vågå Church

Vågå Church (Vågå kyrkje) is a historic stave church located in Vågå in Oppland county, Norway.

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Vågåmo

Vågåmo is the administrative centre of Vågå municipality, in Oppland county.

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Vågåvatn

The Vågåvatn lake (in the Norwegian language Vågåvatnet or "the Vågå lake") is located in Lom and Vågå municipalities, Oppland county, Norway.

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Western Norway

Western Norway (Vestlandet, Vest-Norge, Vest-Noreg) is the region along the Atlantic coast of southern Norway.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vågå

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