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unusual facts about Vang, Oppland


Vang stave church

The church is a four-post single-nave stave church originally built around 1200 in the parish of Vang in the Valdres region of Norway.


1989–90 FIS Cross-Country World Cup

The 1989–90 FIS Cross-Country World Cup started at Soldier Hollow, USA, on 9 December 1989 and finished in Vang, Norway, on 17 March 1990.

1991–92 FIS Cross-Country World Cup

The 1991–92 FIS Cross-Country World Cup took place in Silver Star, Canada, from 8 December 1991 and finished in Vang, Norway, on 14 March 1992.

Ådal

Vestre Ådal is the site of Viker Church and the Ådal Mountains (Ådalsfjellene), a small mountain range which stretches from Ådal to Vassfarfoten on the border with Vassfaret and Sør-Aurdal in Oppland.

Begna River

The Norwegian writer, Mikkjel Fønhus lived much of his life and located most of his novels along the Begna in Oppland.

Billingsdal

The Billingsdal is a valley in the municipality of Skjåk, Oppland county, Norway.

Dovrefjell–Sunndalsfjella National Park

It occupies 1,693 km² and encompasses areas in three Norwegian counties: Oppland, Sør-Trøndelag, and Møre og Romsdal and includes large parts of the mountain range of Dovrefjell.

Empty Cities of the Full Moon

This organization Tetragammaton and these characters (Dr. Vang, Michael Dalke, and Martin Kong) have appeared in previous Hendrix novels involved in the long-term survival of humanity through the creation of mind-machine interfaces.

Espen Berntsen

Espen Berntsen (born 12 May 1967) is a Norwegian football referee from Vang outside of the Norwegian municipality of Hamar.

Eva Kløvstad

She was born in Vang, Hedmark, a daughter of Frithjof Georg Jørgensen and Thorbjørg Jenny Godager.

Frederick C. Finkle

His father and grandparents emigrated to the U.S. in 1850 from Vestre Slidre in the Oppland, Norway.

Gjende

In the Vang dialect the lake is called Gjendin, which is the form you find in Henrik Ibsen's name for what is now called Besseggen, formerly Gjendineggen, or Gendineggen in the older orthography.

Høre stave church

Høre stave church (Høre Stavkyrkje) is a stave church located at Ryfoss in Vang municipality, Valdres, Norway.

Jan Økseter

Jan Økseter (born 19 February 1945 in Aurdal, Oppland) is a retired Norwegian handball player who competed in the 1972 Summer Olympics.

Johannes Skraastad

Johannes Skraastad (1648–1700) was a Norwegian artist from Vang.

La Vang

Though there is no official Vatican recognition of this event as a Marian apparition, on June 19, 1988, Pope John Paul II publicly recognized the importance of Our Lady of La Vang and expressed desire to rebuild the La Vang Basilica in commemoration of the 200th anniversary of the first vision.

May Song Vang

In 2012, she attended the official dedication of Vang Pao Elementary School in the southeast section of Fresno, California.

Oppland

Valdres includes the area extending from Jotunheimen down to Bagn at Begna river.

Sörla saga sterka

Sörli the Strong is a son of the king of Oppland, and is at feud with Halfdan Brana's Foster Son (now king of Sweden).

Supercentenarian

Norwegian Church records, the accuracy of which is subject to dispute, also show what appear to be several supercentenarians who lived in the south-central part of present-day Norway during the 16th and 17th centuries, including Johannes Torpe (1549–1664), and Knud Erlandson Etun (1659–1770), both residents of Valdres, Oppland, Norway.

Tor Jonsson

His birthplace and childhood home was in Boverdal valley in Lom, Oppland, Norway; it is now part of the Lom District Museum.

Torstein Seiersten

Torstein Seiersten (born 22 February 1931 in Brandbu, Oppland) is a Norwegian speed skater.

Trond-Arne Bredesen

Trond-Arne Bredesen (born February 4, 1967 in Gran, Oppland) is a Norwegian nordic combined from 1986 to 1991, representing Gran I.L. in Hadeland.

Turid Thomassen

Since 1999 she has been a member of Lillehammer city council and at the Norwegian parliamentary election in 2009 she was her party's first candidate on the county ballot for Oppland.

Vang, Hedmark

About 70 persons found refuge in the Norwegian resistance Milorg's district 77 rural huts.

Vang, Oppland

The ancient church of Vang was the site of a legal court (thing) held by King Haakon VI in 1368.

Vassfaret

Vassfaret is a desolate mountain valley in southern Norway, bordering Flå, Nes, Ringerike and Sør-Aurdal municipalities and Oppland and Buskerud counties.

Vietnamese dragon

In 1010, King Lý Thái Tổ moved the capital from Hoa Lư to Đại La, which decision was explained in his Chiếu dời đô (Royal proclamation of moving capital): he saw a Rồng vàng (yellow dragon) fly around on the clear blue sky, so he changed the name of Đại La to Thăng Long, meaning "Vietnam's bright and developed future".


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