- This page deals with both Arjeplog Municipality and the urban area (tätort) Arjeplog
Arjeplog Municipality is a municipality in Norrbotten County, in northern Sweden, where Arjeplog is the seat with 2,000 inhabitants. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (372x840, 21 KB) Location of Arjeplog Municipality in Sweden File links The following pages link to this file: Arjeplog Municipality ...
The Municipalities or Kommuner represent the local level of self government in Sweden. ...
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A county, or län, is an administrative and political subdivision of Sweden. ...
Norrbotten County (Norrbottens län) is a Swedish county or län in the extreme north of Sweden. ...
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Lappland is the name of a geographical region in Sweden and Finland which can refer to: Laponia, or Lappland - a historical Province of Sweden and Finland Lapland, or Lappi/Lappland - a current Province and Region of Finland Part of Norrbotten County or Norrbottens län - a current County of Sweden Part...
This is a listing of the municipalities of Sweden by the land area as of 2005. ...
This is a listing of the municipalities of Sweden by the land area as of 2005. ...
This is a listing of the municipalities of Sweden by the population size as of 2005. ...
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This is a listing of the municipalities of Sweden by the population density using the land area, as of 2005. ...
The Municipalities or Kommuner represent the local level of self government in Sweden. ...
Norrbotten County (Norrbottens län) is a Swedish county or län in the extreme north of Sweden. ...
Arjeplog is Sweden's fourth largest municipality, but the fourth least populated. It is located by the shores of lake Hornavan, Sweden's deepest lake and one of its largest. The municipality is popular because of the scenery of lake Hornavan, but also of its other untouched nature. Hornavan in Sweden Hornavan [′hu|rna|van] is a lake in northern Sweden. ...
Geography Arjeplog municipality consists of a terrain dominated by the Scandinavian mountain range and many water areas. It boasts an unparallelled 8,000 lakes and streams, with three main rivers being the Pite River, Skellefte River and Lais River. The Skellefte River attaches south from lake Hornavan, and extends south-east to Skellefteå and the Gulf of Bothnia on the east coast. The Scandinavian Mountains, or Skanderna, Kölen or Fjällen, are a mountain range that runs through the Scandinavian Peninsula. ...
Outlining Pite River and the seat of municipalities it crosses. ...
The Skellefte River (or Skellefteälven in Swedish) is a river in northern Sweden; one of the major Norrland rivers. ...
Skellefteå Municipality is a Municipality in northern Sweden where the City Skellefteå is the seat of government with 35,000 inhabitants. ...
The Baltic Sea The Gulf of Bothnia (Fin. ...
About 80 kilometers north of the town Arjeplog one finds the national parks Padjelanta and Sarek, both being situated in the western parts of the municipality of Jokkmokk. Looking down People walking in snow The Sarek National Park is a national park in Jokkmokk Municipality, in the province Lappland in northern Sweden. ...
Jokkmokk is a Municipality in Norrbotten County, in northern Sweden. ...
Arjeplog also has 13 nature reserves, mostly mountain moor, where endagered plants grow. Mountain Galtispuoda, with a height of 800 meters, is both a popular place of outlook, a nature reserve, and in the winter a popular place for skiing. A nature reserve is an area of importance for wildlife, flora, fauna or features of geological or other special interest, which is reserved and managed for conservation and to provide special opportunities for study or research. ...
Heaths are anthropogenic habitats found primarily in northern and western Europe, where they have been created by thousands of years of human clearance of natural forest vegetation by grazing and burning on mainly infertile acidic soils. ...
History
There lived people in the municipality as early as 10,000 years ago, following the end of the last ice age. For a long time it was only populated by a fishing and hunting people, the Sami people, who who have their own language and breed reindeers in northern Sweden, and today have special rights as a Swedish minority group. The Wisconsin (in North America), Weichsel (in Scandinavia), Devensian (in the British Isles), Midlandian (in Ireland) or Würm glaciation (in the Alps) is the most recent period of the Ice Age, and ended some 10,000 BC. The Wisconsin/Weichsel/Devensian/Midlandian/Würm glaciation began about 70,000...
The Sami people (also Sámi, Saami, Lapps and Laplanders) are an indigenous people of northern Sweden, Norway, Finland and Russia, covering a total area in the Nordic countries corresponding to the size of Sweden. ...
Binomial name Rangifer tarandus (Linnaeus, 1758) For the musician, please see Caribou (musician). ...
The population in Arjeplog was only a few hundred people in the 17th and 18th century, most of them Sami, and the rest of Sweden did not know much of them. Not only 1640 did the Swedish Queen Christina of Sweden order a church to be built in order to Christianize the Sami people in Arjeplog. The church was inaugerated in 1642. At first the deceased were buried under the earthern floor in the church, but eventually the stench became unbearable and the procedure had to end. Christina (1626-1689) or Kristina, later known as Maria Christina Alexandra and sometime Count Dohna, was Queen of Sweden from 1632 to 1654, was the daughter of King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden. ...
The municipality in its current borders was, although yet unconfirmed, created with the municipal reform of 1971. Its coat of arms seems to depict horns of a reindeer and a half moon.
Silver The interest in Arjeplog had been sparked when silver was found in the area in the 1620's, and a mining industry was established there 1635-1659. It has been estimated that the amount of silver mined was 36 kilos per year.
In August 1659, the Danes and Norwegians – who were in the Denmark-Norway union – attacked and burned down the mining village. The mining industry was then stalled for 120 years. The Kingdom of Denmark-Norway, consisting of Denmark and Norway, including Norways possessions Iceland, Greenland and the Faroe Islands, is a term used for the two united kingdoms after their amalgamation as one state in 1536. ...
It was once again taken up in 1719, probably as a means of supporting the war of King Charles XII of Sweden. The mining was upheld until 1810, when the low profits, harsh climate and the long distances led to its closure. There are still remains from that time in the village Adolfström. Carl XII, Karl XII or Carolus Rex, (June 17, 1682 – November 30, 1718), the Alexander of the North, nicknamed in Turkish as DemirbaÅŸ Åžarl (Charles the Habitue), was a King of Sweden from 1697 until his death in 1718. ...
There are also many names in the area such as "Silverroad" and "Silverstrait" reminding of its silver history. When a Sami museum was built in the city Arjeplog in 1965, it was appropriately named Silvermuseum. It is filled with Sami photos and artifacts.
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See also Arjeplog Lapland Court District, or Arjeplogs lappmarks tingslag, was a district of Laponia in Sweden. ...
External links - Arjeplog - Official site
- The Arjeplog map
- The Silvermuseum Swedish and English version
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