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![[Flag of Lavangen]](../images/n/no-19-20.gif)
image by Tomislav Šipek, 25 February 2017
Here is flag and coat of arms of Lavangen. Administrative center is
Tennevoll.
Source:
https://lovdata.no/dokument/OV/forskrift/1987-12-18-1075?q=flagg
Tomislav Šipek, 03 December 2015
![[Flag of Lavangen]](../images/n/no)19-20.gif)
image by Tomislav Šipek, 03 December 2015
Blazon: I rødt tre gull bjørkeblad forent i trepass. In English: Gules three
birch leaves or in pall stems conjoined.
Approved by the royal resolution of 18 December 1987 after a drawing by Øystein
Hermod Skaugvolldal. [c2j88]
The Wikipedia
https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavangen explains the arms symbolising the
three ethnic communities in the municipalities, the Norwegians, Kvens and Sami.
Kvans are a minority people in Norway descended from Finnish peasants and
fishermen who migrated to North Norway in the 18th and the 19th century.
The
http://www.ngw.nl/heraldrywiki/index.php?title=Lavangen provides similar
explanation, but also without providing a source.
Željko Heimer, 05 December 2015
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