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Arvidsjaur Municipality is a Municipality in northern Sweden where the City Arvidsjaur is the seat of government. Download high resolution version (372x854, 19 KB) Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ...
Location Northern Europe, Scandinavian Peninsula, bordering the Baltic Sea, Gulf of Bothnia, Kattegat, and Skagerrak, between Finland and Norway. ...
City Arms of Arvidsjaur , Sweden Found on http://www. ...
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The city Arvidsjaur has 5,100 inhabitants.
Geography
Arvidsjaur is located about 110 km south of the Arctic Circle, in the center of the northernmost district Norrland. It is also part of the geographic area Laplandia, which consists of the northern parts of Sweden, Norway and Finland and is populated by Lapps, or as they are more commonly known, the Sami people. They are a minority people who mainly live by herding reindeer. Arvidsjaur still holds several Sami villages, and as a tribute to the Sami people a reindeer is the basis for the City Arms. Arctic Circle - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins/monobook/IE50Fixes. ...
Norrland is a historical land of Sweden. ...
Laponia, or Lappland, was a historical Province or landskap in the extreme north of Sweden. ...
Sami flag The Sami People (there are other names and spellings including Sámi, Saami and Lapp) 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 The reindeer, known as caribou in North America, is an Arctic-dwelling deer (Rangifer tarandus). ...
History Arvidsjaur was for a long time only inhabited by the Sami people. They were back then a hunting people, living of the plenty of fish and wildlife in the area. Archeological discoveries suggest that people have been moving through the area for several thousands years. The name Arvidsjaur itself comes from a Sami word – the word Arvidsjaur means generous water, and was originally the name of the adjecent lake.
In the 14th and 15th century, some farmers settled down in the area. They acquired furs and skins from the hunters, and traded them off to southern regions, allegedly in vast numbers.
The Christianization of Arvidsjaur was slow, as it was in Norrland as a whole, because of the low population, the harsh climate and the large distances. It was also commonly believed that Norrland was inhabited by magicians.
Not until 1577 did the first settler, Per Käck, settle in Arvidsjaur. The settlers built the first chapel at the market place at the time, in 1560. The first church was inaugurated in 1604.
The Swedish minister and missionary Petrus Laestadius (1802-1841; brother of Lars Levi Laestadius, founder of largest Christian revival movement in Norrland) collected old stories and myths in the area in the 19th century which create the basis for our knowledge from that time. Lars Levi Laestadius (1800-1861) Lars Levi Læstadius (October 1, 1800 - February 21, 1861) was a Swedish Lutheran pastor of Sami ancestry. ...
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See also Arvidsjaur Lapland Court District, or Arvidsjaurs lappmarks tingslag, was a district of Laponia in Sweden. ...
External links - Arvidsjaur (http://www.arvidsjaur.se) - Official site
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