Arvidsjaur Municipality

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Arvidsjaur Municipality

Arvidsjaur Municipality (Swedish

Swedish language

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: Arvidsjaurs kommun) is a municipality

Municipalities of Sweden

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in Norrbotten County

Norrbotten County

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in northern Sweden

Sweden

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. Its seat is located in Arvidsjaur

Arvidsjaur

Arvidsjaur is a urban areas in Sweden in Lapland, Sweden and the seat of Arvidsjaur Municipality, Norrbotten County.If things go according to plan, Arvidsjaur will be the site of the front legs of the world's largest moose – Stoorn – a tourist attraction planned to be built spanning from Arvidsjaur into Skellefte? in V?sterbott...
.

dsjaur Municipality was for a long time only inhabited by the Sami people

Sami people

The S?mi people, are the indigenous people Indigenous peoples of Europe inhabiting S?pmi , which today encompasses parts of northern Sweden, Norway, Finland and the Kola Peninsula of Russia....
. They were back then a hunting

Hunting

Hunting is the practice of pursuing living animals for food, recreation, or trade. In present-day use, the term refers to lawful hunting, as distinguished from poaching, which is the killing, trapping or capture of the hunted species contrary to law....
people, living off the abundance of fish

Fish

A fish is any marine biology vertebrate animal that is typically ectothermic , covered with scale , and equipped with two sets of paired fins and several unpaired fins....
and wildlife

Wildlife

Wildlife includes all non-domesticated plants, animals, and other organisms. Domesticating wild plant and animal species for human benefit has occurred many times all over the planet, and has a major impact on the environment, both positive and negative....
in the area.

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Arvidsjaur Municipality (Swedish

Swedish language

Municipalities of Sweden

The municipalities of Sweden are the local government entities of Sweden. The current 290 municipalities are organized into 21 Counties of Sweden ....
in Norrbotten County

Norrbotten County

Norrbotten County is a Counties of Sweden or l?n in the extreme north of Sweden. It borders to V?sterbotten County and the Gulf of Bothnia....
in northern Sweden

Sweden

Arvidsjaur

History

Arvidsjaur Municipality was for a long time only inhabited by the Sami people

Sami people

Hunting

Fish

A fish is any marine biology vertebrate animal that is typically ectothermic , covered with scale , and equipped with two sets of paired fins and several unpaired fins....
and wildlife

Wildlife

Archaeology

Archaeology, archeology, or arch?ology is the science that studies Homo cultures through the recovery, documentation, analysis, and interpretation of material remains and environmental data, including architecture, Artifact , features, Biofact s, and cultural landscape....
discoveries suggest that people have been moving through the area for several thousands of year

Year

A year is the time between two recurrences of an event related to the orbit of the Earth around the Sun. By extension, this can be applied to any planet: for example, a "Martian year" is the time in which Mars completes its own orbit....
s. The name Arvidsjaur itself comes from a Sami

Sami languages

Sami or Saami is a general name for a group of Uralic languages spoken by the Sami people in parts of northern Finland, Norway, Sweden and extreme northwestern Russia, in Northern Europe....
word which means "generous water" and was originally the name of the adjacent lake

Lake

A lake is a terrain feature , a body of liquid on the surface of a world that is localized to the bottom of basin and moves slowly if it moves at all....
.

In the 14th and 15th century some farmer

Farmer

A farmer is a person who raises living organisms for food or raw materials....
s settled in the area. They acquired fur

Fur

Fur is a Hair of any non-human mammal, also known as the pelage. It may consist of short ground hair, long guard hair, and, in some cases, medium awn hair....
s and skin

Skin

The skin is the outer covering of the body, also known as the epidermis. It is the largest organ of the integumentary system made up of multiple layers of epithelial biological tissue, and guards the underlying muscles, bones, ligaments and organ s....
s from the hunters, and traded them off to southern regions, allegedly in vast numbers.

The Christianization

Christianization

The historical phenomenon of Christianization, the religious conversion of individuals to Christianity or the conversion of entire peoples at once, also includes the practice of converting native Paganism practices and culture, pagan religious imagery, pagan sites and the pagan calendar to Christian uses, due to the Christian efforts at Ch...
of Arvidsjaur Municipality was slow, as it was in Norrland

Norrland

Norrland is one of the three lands of Sweden , the northern part, consisting of nine Provinces of Sweden. The term Norrland is not used for any administrative purpose, but it is common in everyday language, e.g....
as a whole, because of the low population, the harsh climate and the long 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

Chapel

A chapel is a building used as a place for fellowship and of worship for Christians. It may be attached to an institution such as a large Church , a college, a hospital, a palace, a prison or a cemetery, or may be an entirely free-standing building, sometimes with its own grounds....
at the marketplace

Marketplace

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at the time, in 1560. The first church was inaugurated in 1604.

The Swedish minister

Minister

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and missionary

Missionary

A 'missionary' is a member of a religion who works to convert those who do not share the missionary's faith; someone who Proselytism. The word "mission" is derived from the Latin missioninimus...
Petrus Læstadius (1802-1841; brother

Sibling

A sibling is a brother or a sister; that is, any person who shares the same parents.In most societies throughout the world, siblings usually grow up together and spend a good deal of their childhood with each other....
of Lars Levi Læstadius

Lars Levi Læstadius

Lars Levi L?stadius was a Sweden Lutheran pastor of partly Sami people ancestry. From the mid 1840's and onward he became the leader of the Laestadian movement....
, founder of the 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.

Geography

Arvidsjaur Municipality is located about 110 kilometres south of the Arctic Circle

Arctic Circle

The Arctic Circle is one of the five major circle of latitude that mark maps of the Earth. It is the parallel of latitude that runs 66degree 33'39? north of the Equator....
, in the center of the northernmost land

Lands of Sweden

File:Sverigekarta-Landsdelar, namn och landskap.svgThe lands of Sweden are three unofficial parts, essentially three collectives of provinces of Sweden, in Sweden....
, Norrland

Norrland

Geography

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area Sápmi, which consists of the northern parts of Sweden, Norway

Norway

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and Finland

Finland

Finland , officially the Republic of Finland , is a Nordic countries situated in the Fennoscandian region of northern Europe. It borders Sweden on the west, Russia on the east, and Norway on the north, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland....
and is populated by the Sami people

Sami people

Minority group

A minority or subordinate group is a group that does not constitute a politically dominant voting majority of the total population of a given society....
who mainly live on breeding reindeer

Reindeer

The reindeer , also known as the caribou when wild in North America, is an Arctic and Subarctic-dwelling deer, widespread and numerous across the northern Holarctic....
s. Arvidsjaur Municipality still holds several Sami village

Village

A village is a clustered human settlement or Residential community, larger than a hamlet , but smaller than a town or city. Though generally located in rural areas, the term urban village may be applied to certain urban area neighbourhoods, such as the West Village in Manhattan, New York City and the Saifi Village in Beirut, Lebanon....
s, and as a tribute to the Sami people a reindeer is the basis for the municipal coat of arms

Coat of arms

A coat of arms, more properly called an armorial achievement, armorial bearings or often just arms for short, in European tradition, is a design belonging to a particular person and used by them in a wide variety of ways....
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Localities

There are three localities

Urban areas in Sweden

Urban area is a common English language translation of the Swedish language term t?tort. The official term in English, used by Statistics Sweden, is, however, locality....
(or urban areas) in Arvidsjaur Municipality:

#	Locality	Population
1	Arvidsjaur Arvidsjaur Arvidsjaur is a urban areas in Sweden in Lapland, Sweden and the seat of Arvidsjaur Municipality, Norrbotten County.If things go according to plan, Arvidsjaur will be the site of the front legs of the world's largest moose – Stoorn – a tourist attraction planned to be built spanning from Arvidsjaur into Skellefte? in V?sterbott...	4,644
2	Glommersträsk	306
3	Moskosel	299

The municipal seat in bold

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