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    Forsand is a village in Sandnes Municipality in Rogaland county, Norway. The village is located along the Høgsfjorden, at the mouth of the 42-kilometre...
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    municipality was the village of Forsand. Other villages in the municipality included Lysebotn, Øvre Espedal, Oanes, Kolabygda, and Fløyrli. Forsand municipality...
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    the region. The fairly isolated village of Lysebotn lies at the eastern end of the fjord and the villages of Forsand and Oanes both lie at the western...
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    Rogaland (section Villages)
    Domkirken, Stavanger Egersund Erfjord Falnes Ferkingstad Finnøy (Hesby) Fister Forsand (Fossan) Frue, see Hetland Førdesfjorden Gjestal Haugesund Hausken Helleland...
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    Lysebotn (category Villages in Rogaland)
    Skagenkaien in the city of Stavanger, Lauvvik in Sandnes, and the village of Forsand. All of which pass beneath the famous Preikestolen cliff on the way...
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    Norway. It is located in the village of Forsand, near the mouth to the Lysefjorden. It is one of the two churches for the Forsand parish which is part of the...
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    Dirdal (category Villages in Rogaland)
    mountains and ends at the village of Gilja. Prior to 1 January 1965, the village (and valley) were part of the municipality of Forsand. This area was moved...
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    Oanes (category Villages in Rogaland)
    Lysefjorden and Høgsfjorden, just north of the village of Forsand. The Norwegian National Road 13 runs through the village, just west of the Lysefjord Bridge. Oanes...
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  • place in Fjaler, Norway. Espedal may also refer to: Espedal Øvre, a village in Forsand, Norway Ronny Espedal, Norwegian footballer Kristian Espedal or Gaahl...
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    located in the very small village of Lysebotn, at the end of the Lysefjorden. It is one of the two churches for the Forsand parish which is part of the...
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    city. There are several villages in the rural parts of the municipality including Hommersåk, Høle, Foss-Eikeland, Stokka, Forsand, Lysebotn, and Vatne....
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    located at the village of Frafjord in the municipality of Gjesdal. It flows west to Dirdal and then heads northwards. At the village of Forsand, the Lysefjord...
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    erected in the town Langeskov in Denmark to commemorate its twin town of Forsand. In the final scene of the final episode of the second season of Vikings...
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    Hjelmeland, Strand, Kvitsøy, the eastern island portion of Stavanger, and the Forsand part of Sandnes. There are no large cities in Ryfylke, but there are two...
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    Kjeragbolten (category Forsand)
    a popular site for BASE jumping. The boulder is just southwest of the village of Lysebotn, just south of the Lysefjorden. Rogaland lies in a weak tectonic...
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    distances the residents had to travel to get to the nearby Forsand Church. In 1903, the village received permission to build an annex chapel. The new chapel...
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    January 2020, the northwestern part of Forsand municipality was transferred to Strand (while the rest of Forsand was merged with Sandnes). The municipality...
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    along the Høgsfjorden in Høle municipality (population: 37) the parts of Forsand municipality south and east of the Frafjorden including Dirdal, Frafjord...
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    present Ryfylke prosti. In 2020, the parishes in the former municipality of Forsand were moved from here to the neighboring Sandnes prosti. This deanery (Norwegian:...
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    source of herring, and the town grew accordingly. Despite being barely a village back then, King Harald Fairhair lived at Avaldsnes, very close to the modern...
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    Church was erected. This building still stands today. On 18 July 1798, the village of Egersund was established as a ladested with its own customs office....
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    (in Norwegian). KirkeKonsulenten.no. Retrieved 17 November 2019. Borgen Førsand, Finn. "Bø kyrkje og kyrkjegard" (in Norwegian). Fylkesarkivet. Retrieved...
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    and about 25 kilometres (16 mi) southwest of the town of Haugesund. The village of Veavågen lies immediately to the northeast of Åkrehamn. The 4.35-square-kilometre...
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    administrative centre of Suldal is the village of Sand i Ryfylke (prior to that it was the village of Suldalsosen). Other villages in Suldal include Haugsland,...
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    acres) and 1,800 residents living in the neighboring municipality. The village of Bryne was founded as Thime Stasjon, since this was the location of the...
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    municipality is the city of Sauda, where most of the population lives. Other villages in the municipality include Saudasjøen and Amdal. Despite being in the...
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    The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Hjelmelandsvågen. Other villages in the municipality include Fister, Årdal, and Jøsenfjorden...
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    Dalane. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Hauge. Other villages in Sokndal include Li, Rekefjord, Sogndalsstranda, and Åna-Sira...
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    factory (closed in 1979) and it is among Norway's biggest fishing ports. The villages of Helleland, Hellvik, and Hestnes are also in Eigersund. The island of...
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    Dalane. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Moi. Other villages in Lund include Eik and, Heskestad. European route E39 and the...
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