• Thumbnail for Jæren
    Jæren is a traditional district in Rogaland county, Norway. The other districts in Rogaland are Dalane, Ryfylke, and Haugalandet. Jæren is one of the...
    7 KB (656 words) - 15:19, 1 March 2023
  • Forum Jæren is a 65,5 meters (67,7 meters at the very top) high skyscraper in the city of Bryne, Norway. The tower has 20 floors and contains offices...
    2 KB (221 words) - 08:44, 23 August 2022
  • Jæren Sparebank is a Norwegian savings bank, headquartered in Bryne, Norway. The bank's main market is Rogaland. The bank is one of the owners of Eika...
    1 KB (42 words) - 23:59, 24 April 2021
  • Jærens rev (Jæren's reef) is the westernmost sandbank on the coast of Jæren, located approximately 3 miles (4.8 km) off Reve in Klepp municipality, between...
    7 KB (819 words) - 00:08, 25 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Jæren Line
    The Jæren Line (Norwegian: Jærbanen) 74.7-kilometer (46.4 mi) long railway line between Stavanger and Egersund in Jæren, Norway. The name is no longer...
    48 KB (5,638 words) - 23:03, 8 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of churches in Rogaland
    from "Jæderen prosti" to "Jæren prosti". In 1988, the parishes of Randaberg and Høle transferred from Ryfylke prosti to Jæren prosti and the Ogna parish...
    26 KB (1,322 words) - 14:08, 25 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Kitty Kielland
    painting daily. In 1876, Kielland visited Jæren in southern Norway. Kielland's former teacher Hans Gude had visited Jæren in 1869 and 1872 and upon his return...
    7 KB (653 words) - 02:53, 8 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Rogaland
    the most important region for oil and gas exploration in Norway, and the Jæren district in Rogaland is one of the country's most important agricultural...
    21 KB (1,344 words) - 13:40, 15 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Jæren District Court
    Jæren District Court (Norwegian: Jæren tingrett) was a district court in Rogaland county, Norway. The court was based at the Sandnes Courthouse located...
    5 KB (478 words) - 04:46, 8 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Jæren Commuter Rail
    The Jæren Commuter Rail (Norwegian: Jærbanen) is a commuter train service operated along the westernmost part of the Sørland Line in Jæren, Norway. It...
    37 KB (3,875 words) - 03:47, 7 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for Erik the Red
    his hair and beard. According to Icelandic sagas, Erik was born in the Jæren district of Rogaland, Norway, as the son of Thorvald Asvaldsson; to which...
    21 KB (2,228 words) - 13:55, 21 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Stavanger
    Stavanger (category Jæren)
    000 years ago. A number of historians have argued convincingly that North-Jæren was an economic and military center as far back as the 9th and 10th centuries...
    109 KB (9,950 words) - 14:02, 5 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Klepp stasjon
    village is named after the Klepp Station, a station on the Jæren railway line. When the Jæren Line was constructed in 1878, the village of Kleppe was somewhat...
    2 KB (140 words) - 04:54, 12 March 2020
  • Thumbnail for Jærhøns
    domestic chicken in Norway. It is named for the traditional district of Jæren in the county of Rogaland. The Jærhøns was the principal chicken breed of...
    7 KB (579 words) - 09:00, 8 August 2023
  • (Kavlifondet). It was founded in 2000 and operates two dairies; Jæren Gårdsmeieri located in Jæren and Gausdalmeieriet located in Gausdal. The two dairies process...
    2 KB (112 words) - 21:52, 21 May 2022
  • Eirik Bjodaskalle Kåresson, av Obrestad (Obrestad på Jæren, Hå, Rogaland, 902 - Obrestad på Jæren, Hå, Rogaland, 964) and wife, by whom he already had...
    3 KB (362 words) - 23:50, 6 March 2024
  • Løkke Rasmussen, attended the funeral. Ueland was buried on 21 January in Jæren, Norway. The Norwegian Minister of Health, Bent Høie, and the Moroccan Ambassador...
    19 KB (1,822 words) - 12:57, 25 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Kolumbus
    buses. There are local trains Stavanger - Sandnes and Stavanger - Egersund (Jæren Commuter Rail). In 2003 the first PSO contracts were awarded to in Greater...
    6 KB (798 words) - 12:15, 5 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for List of nominees for the Nobel Prize in Literature
    1914, 1915, 1916, 1917, 1918, 1919, 1920 Arne Garborg January 25, 1851 Jæren, Norway January 14, 1924 Asker, Norway 1902, 1916, 1917, 1920, 1921 1903...
    396 KB (12,634 words) - 22:12, 10 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Coastline of Norway
    mainland is exposed to the open sea along the coast: at Lindesnes, Lista, Jæren, Stad, Hustadvika, and Folda in Trøndelag, and along the Varanger Peninsula...
    3 KB (348 words) - 23:00, 4 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for North Germanic languages
    dialect (Bergen) Haugesund dialect [no] (Haugesund) Jærsk dialect [no] (Jæren district) Karmøy dialect [no] (Karmøy) Nordmøre dialects [no] (Nordmøre)...
    57 KB (5,429 words) - 10:22, 25 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Stavanger Peninsula
    Stavanger Peninsula is occasionally used interchangeably with North Jæren (Norwegian: Nord-Jæren), but the former is a geographical region, while the latter is...
    2 KB (164 words) - 18:05, 17 February 2023
  • Thumbnail for Dalane
    districts in Western Norway. It sits to the southeast of the very flat Jæren region and south of the moorland of Ryfylke. The 1,786-square-kilometre...
    3 KB (231 words) - 17:44, 10 November 2021
  • Thumbnail for Sylvia Earle
    February 25, 2024. Dr Sylvia Earle receives Rachel Carson Award 2017 - Jaeren Coast Hope Spot, retrieved February 25, 2024 "Sylvia A. Earle, Ph.D." Academy...
    45 KB (4,056 words) - 13:33, 3 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Høle
    89556; 6.00917 Country Norway Region Western Norway County Rogaland District Jæren City Sandnes Area  • Total 101.4 km2 (39.2 sq mi) Elevation 22 m (72 ft)...
    4 KB (158 words) - 06:16, 2 January 2023
  • Thumbnail for Ryfast
    side of the fjord. This tunnel reduced travel time between the Northern Jæren and Ryfylke districts in Rogaland county. Ryfylke officially opened to traffic...
    6 KB (611 words) - 19:52, 31 May 2023
  • Thumbnail for NSB Class 72
    and 2005, the four-car units operate on the Oslo Commuter Rail and the Jæren Commuter Rail. The trains have a capacity of 310 passengers and the 2,250...
    15 KB (1,789 words) - 21:20, 21 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Kingdom of Norway (872–1397)
    peace and Icelandic laws, and basically it was so. Erik the Red lived in Jæren, but he and his father were exiled from Norway due to murder, and settled...
    48 KB (5,255 words) - 20:20, 26 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Forage harvester
    chopping corn A parked Serigstad tractor-drawn grass forage harvester in Jæren, Norway New Holland Self-propelled FR9000 Forage Harvester Forage-bagging...
    6 KB (652 words) - 09:59, 21 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for History of Norway
    especially in the fertile areas around the Oslofjord, Trondheimsfjord, Mjøsa and Jæren. Some yields were so high that it allowed farmers to trade furs and skins...
    84 KB (9,820 words) - 01:20, 29 March 2024