Telemark

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|1961|149943 	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	
|1971|156778  	  	  	 	 	  	  	  	 	  	    	  	  	  	  	  	
|1981|162050  	  	  	  	  	  	  	 	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	 	
|1991|162869  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	 	  	  	  	  	  	
|2001|165595 	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	 	  	  	  	  	  	 	  	  	  	
|2011|169185	
|2021?|180966
|2031?|191552	  	  	  	  	  	
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 is a coonty in Norawa, borderin Vestfold, Buskerud, Hordaland, Rogaland an Aust-Agder. The coonty admeenistration is in Skien. Till 1919 the coonty wis kent as Bratsberg amt.

 Location 
The coonty is locatit in sootheastren Norawa, extendin frae Hardangervidda tae the Skagerrak coast. The coastline extends frae Langesundsfjorden to Gjernestangen at the border tae Aust-Agder. Telemark haes a vera braken an heterogeneous landscape, includin mony hills an valleys.

 Infrastructur 
The internaitional road E18 goes through the soothren pairts o Telemark, namely Grenland an the municipality o Kragerø. European route 134, anither important motorwa an the fastest route atween Oslo an Bergen, goes through the municipalities o Vinje, Tokke, Kviteseid, Seljord, Hjartdal an Notodden. RV36, stretchin frae Porsgrunn to Seljord, links the E18 an E134 motorwas.

Telemark is well servit bi railweys. The Sørlandsbanen runs through the traditional destricts o Vestmar an Midt-Telemark, servin the municipalities o Drangedal, Nome, Bø and Sauherad. Grenland is primarily servit bi Vestfoldbanen, but haes connections through Bratsbergbanen which runs atween Skien an Notodden an aw.

Geiteryggen Airport in Skien affers flichts tae Bergen an Stockholm.

Frae Langesund, Kystlink operates ferry services tae Swaden an Denmark.

The main bus lines in the coonty are operatit bi Telemark Bilruter, servin wastren an middle pairts o the coonty, an Nettbuss which serves the middle, eastren an soothren pairts o the coonty. Drangedal Bilruter serves the Vestmar region.

 Population 
The lairgest population centres are Skien, Porsgrunn, Notodden, Rjukan an Kragerø. Ither important places are Bø, Fyresdal an Vinje.

 The name 
The Norse form o the name was Þelamǫrk. The first element is the genitive plural case o þelir, the name o an auld Germanic tribe. The last element is mǫrk 'firthland, borderland, march'. (See an aw Hedmark and Finnmark.)

Till 1919 the coonty wis cried Bratsberg amt. The amt wis namit efter the ferm Bratsberg (Norse Brattsberg), syne this was the seat o the amtmann ('govrenor'). The first element is the genitive case o brattr m 'steep montain', the last element is berg n 'mountain'. (The name is referrin tae a steep muntainside ahint the ferm.)

Telemark lent its name tae Telemark skiin, a style inventit bi Sondre Norheim, an the characteristic Telemark landin o ski jumpin.

 Coat-o-airms 
The coat-o-airms is frae modren times (1970). It shows an auld type o battle axe, significant for the coonty.

 History 
Some historians uised tae believe that Telemark haed been a petty kinrick in the early Viking Age, prior tae the reign o Harald Fairhair. This assertion, housomeivver, is unfoondit. 

The film The Heroes of Telemark is loosely based on the Norse hivy watter sabotage, a raid on a hivy water plant at Rjukan durin Warld War II. Ray Mears made a documentary titled The Real Heroes of Telemark'' as a response tae the inaccuracies o the film, givin an accoont mair focused on the ootdoor skills that wur required for the operation (spendin months in the muntains an remote cabins).

 Destricts 
The coonty is conventionally dividit intae traditional destricts. These are Grenland, Vest-Telemark, Midt-Telemark, Øst-Telemark an Vestmar.

 Municipalities 

 Rank  Name Inhabitants
  Area km²  20px|Skien kommune Skien    20px|Porsgrunn kommune Porsgrunn    20px|Bamble kommune Bamble    20px|Notodden kommune Notodden    20px|Kragerø kommune Kragerø    20px|Nome kommune Nome    20px|Tinn kommune Tinn    20px|Bø i Telemark Bø    20px|Sauherad kommune Sauherad    20px|Drangedal kommune Drangedal    20px|Vinje kommune Vinje    20px|Seljord kommune Seljord    20px|Kviteseid kommune Kviteseid    20px|Siljan kommune Siljan    20px|Tokke kommune Tokke    20px|Hjartdal kommune Hjartdal    20px|Nissedal kommune Nissedal    20px|Fyresdal kommune Fyresdal   Total 20px|Telemark fylke Telemark|bgcolor="pink" align="right"| |bgcolor="pink" align="right"| '''

 Freemit airtins 

 Hamepage o Telemark Coonty 

 References 


Category:Petty kinricks o Norawa
Category:Umwhile coonties o Norawa