 vanylven is a municipality in mÃ¸re og romsdal county, norway. it is part of the sunnmÃ¸re region. the administrative centre is the village of fiskÃ¥bygd. other villages in the municipality include Ãheim, Ãram, rovdane, slagnes, and myklebost. ==general information== thumb|left|map of the municipality  vanelven was established as a municipality on 1 january 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt). the spelling was later changed to vanylven. on 1 july 1918, the area around the syvdsfjorden was separated to become the new syvde municipality. this left vanylven with 1,848 residents. then on 1 january 1964, syvde municipality and the rovdestranda area of rovde municipality were both merged into vanylven municipality. this gave vanylven a new population of 3,897. on 1 january 2002, the mainland Ãram area north of fiskÃ¥bygd (population: 380) was transferred from sande municipality to vanylven municipality. ===name=== the municipality is named after vanylvsfjorden (old norse: vaniflir). the meaning of the first element is unknown, but the last element (-iflir) is also found in the names sunnylven and sykkylven and it probably means "fjord".{{cite book|title=norske gaardnavne: romsdals amt|edition=13|authorlink=olu
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