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Fosnes is a municipality
Municipalities of Norway

||}Norway is divided into 19 administrative regions, called county , and 430 municipality . The capital city Oslo is considered both a county and a municipality....
 in Nord-Trøndelag
Nord-Trøndelag

is a Counties of Norway in the central Norway regions of Norway called Tr?ndelag....
 county
Counties of Norway

||-||}Norway is divided into 19 subnational, called county . The counties form the primary first-level subdivisions of Norway and are further divided into 431 Municipalities of Norway ....
, Norway
Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a constitutional monarchy in Northern Europe that occupies the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula....
. It is part of the Namdalen
Namdalen

Namdalen is a Districts of Norway in the central part of Norway, consisting of the municipalities Namsos, Grong, Overhalla, R?yrvik, Fosnes, N?r?y, H?ylandet, Namdalseid, Flatanger, Leka, Norway, Namsskogan and Vikna, all in Nord-Tr?ndelag county, and in addition Bindal, which lies in Nordland....
 region
Districts of Norway

Norway is divided into a number of districts. Many districts have deep historical roots, and only partially coincide with today's administrative units of counties of Norway and municipalities of Norway....
. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Jøa. Fosnes is situated north of Namsos
Namsos

is a town and Municipalities of Norway in Nord-Tr?ndelag Counties of Norway, Norway. It is part of the Namdalen Districts of Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Namsos....
. The municipality includes the island Jøa
Jøa

J?a is an island in Fosnes municipality, Nord-Tr?ndelag county, Norway. It has an area of 55,3 km2. The Norwegian writer Olav Duun was born here. The highest point is Moldvikfjellet at 297 m....
 and the second deepest lake in Europe, Salsvatnet.

Fosnes was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt
Formannskapsdistrikt

Formannskaps-distrikt was the name for a Norway local self-government districts put into force in 1838. This system of municipality was created in a bill approved by the Storting and signed into law by King Charles XIV John of Sweden on 14 January 1837....
). Two other municipalities were later separated from it: Flatanger
Flatanger

Flatanger is a Municipalities of Norway in Nord-Tr?ndelag Counties of Norway, Norway. It is part of the Namdalen Districts of Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Flatanger....
 in 1871 and Otterøy
Otterøy

Otter?y is a former municipality in Nord-Tr?ndelag county, Norway.It was created by a split from Fosnes on 1 January 1913. At that time Otter?y had a population of 1.631....
 in 1913.

municipality (originally the parish
Parish

A parish is a local church; it is an administrative unit typically found in Roman Catholic, Anglican, United Methodist, and Presbyterianism churches....
) is named after the old Fosnes farm (Old Norse
Old Norse

Old Norse is a North Germanic languages that was spoken by inhabitants of Scandinavia and inhabitants of their overseas settlements during the Viking Age, until about 1300....
: Fólsknnes), since the first church was built there.






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Fosnes is a municipality
Municipalities of Norway

||}Norway is divided into 19 administrative regions, called county , and 430 municipality . The capital city Oslo is considered both a county and a municipality....
 in Nord-Trøndelag
Nord-Trøndelag

is a Counties of Norway in the central Norway regions of Norway called Tr?ndelag....
 county
Counties of Norway

||-||}Norway is divided into 19 subnational, called county . The counties form the primary first-level subdivisions of Norway and are further divided into 431 Municipalities of Norway ....
, Norway
Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a constitutional monarchy in Northern Europe that occupies the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula....
. It is part of the Namdalen
Namdalen

Namdalen is a Districts of Norway in the central part of Norway, consisting of the municipalities Namsos, Grong, Overhalla, R?yrvik, Fosnes, N?r?y, H?ylandet, Namdalseid, Flatanger, Leka, Norway, Namsskogan and Vikna, all in Nord-Tr?ndelag county, and in addition Bindal, which lies in Nordland....
 region
Districts of Norway

Norway is divided into a number of districts. Many districts have deep historical roots, and only partially coincide with today's administrative units of counties of Norway and municipalities of Norway....
. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Jøa. Fosnes is situated north of Namsos
Namsos

is a town and Municipalities of Norway in Nord-Tr?ndelag Counties of Norway, Norway. It is part of the Namdalen Districts of Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Namsos....
. The municipality includes the island Jøa
Jøa

J?a is an island in Fosnes municipality, Nord-Tr?ndelag county, Norway. It has an area of 55,3 km2. The Norwegian writer Olav Duun was born here. The highest point is Moldvikfjellet at 297 m....
 and the second deepest lake in Europe, Salsvatnet.

Fosnes was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt
Formannskapsdistrikt

Formannskaps-distrikt was the name for a Norway local self-government districts put into force in 1838. This system of municipality was created in a bill approved by the Storting and signed into law by King Charles XIV John of Sweden on 14 January 1837....
). Two other municipalities were later separated from it: Flatanger
Flatanger

Flatanger is a Municipalities of Norway in Nord-Tr?ndelag Counties of Norway, Norway. It is part of the Namdalen Districts of Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Flatanger....
 in 1871 and Otterøy
Otterøy

Otter?y is a former municipality in Nord-Tr?ndelag county, Norway.It was created by a split from Fosnes on 1 January 1913. At that time Otter?y had a population of 1.631....
 in 1913.

General information


Name

The municipality (originally the parish
Parish

A parish is a local church; it is an administrative unit typically found in Roman Catholic, Anglican, United Methodist, and Presbyterianism churches....
) is named after the old Fosnes farm (Old Norse
Old Norse

Old Norse is a North Germanic languages that was spoken by inhabitants of Scandinavia and inhabitants of their overseas settlements during the Viking Age, until about 1300....
: Fólsknnes), since the first church was built there. The first element is fólskn which means "hiding place" and the last element is nes which means "headland
Headland

A headland is land surrounded by water on three sides.Headland can also refer to:*Headlands and bays*headLand, an Australian television series...
". (The first element is referring to an inlet
Inlet

An inlet is a narrow body of water between islands or leading inland from a larger body of water, often leading to an enclosed body of water, such as a Sound , bay , lagoon or marsh....
 behind the farm, where ships could not be seen from the main fjord
Fjord

Geologically, a fjord or fiord is a long, narrow inlet with steep sides, created in a valley carved by Glacier....
.)

Coat-of-arms

The 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....
 is from modern times. They were granted on 13 November 1992. The arms show a black oarlock from a rowing boat on a yellow background. Fosnes is a coastal municipality and rowing boats were the main form of transportation in the former centuries.

The first proposal for arms of Fosnes were taken in 1989, when the council launched a contest to develop arms. Several proposals were received but none was acceptable to or the council, or the Norwegian Heraldic Society, as the proposals were not made according to heraldic rules. Finally the Society proposed the above arms, which were acceptable to the council.

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