 tysfjord (norwegian) or divtasvuodna (lule sami) is a municipality in nordland county, norway. it is part of the traditional district of ofoten. the administrative centre of the municipality is the village of kjÃ¸psvik. other villages include drag, hundholmen, korsnes, musken, rÃ¸rvika, skarberget, and storÃ¥. tysfjord has a very large population of lule sami people. the Ãrran lule sami center is located in the village of drag. with the norwegian language and lule sami language both as official languages of the municipality, tysfjord is the only municipality in norway where speakers of lule sami should theoretically be able to speak that language with officials, although this has not come completely to fruition. ==general information== thumb|left|stetind mountain and the fjord the municipality of tysfjord was established on 1 january 1869 when it was separated from the municipality of lÃ¸dingen. initially, the population of tysfjord was 1,402. on 1 january 1964, the tysnes and molvik village areas (population: 33) was transferred from hamarÃ¸y to tysfjord. ===name=== the municipality is named after the tysfjorden (the fjord that the municipality surrounds). tysfjord is a norwegianized form of the lule sami name divtasvuodna (first recorded around 1520 as "tyttisfiorden"). the meaning of the first element divtas is unknown. (a popular belief, and common interpretation, is that the first element should be the genitive case of the name of the norse god tÃ½r - but this does not fit either with the sami form or t
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