Þingeyjarsveit
65.722777777778 - 17.359444444444Koordinaten: 65 ° 43 ' N, 17 ° 22 ' W
Þingeyjarsveit ( in transliteration Þingeyjarsveit ) is an Icelandic community and in the region Norðurland eystra.
On 1 January 2009 the municipality had 948 inhabitants, of whom 116 lived in Laugar.
Geography
The elongated, water- rich community area on both sides of the river Skjálfandafljót stretches from the coast of the Skjálfandi bay with the island Flatey in the north to the glaciers Tungnafellsjökull in the highlands in the south. The municipal area is the waterfall Goðafoss and the birch forest Vaglaskógur, which runs along the river Fnjóská.
South of the Skjálfandi Bay is the area Aðaldalshraun and the Aðaldalur and Laxárdalur the River Laxa. The capital of the province, Laugar, lays a little further west, south of the Vestmannsvatn. West of Laugar is the Goðafoss, west of Ljósavatn, southeast of the town of Másvatn and further south the Kálfborgarárvatn. The area south of Laugar east of Skjálfandafljóts means Fljótsheiði. Further south lie the lakes Svartárvatn and the slightly larger Íshólsvatn. In the southwest of the municipality are the lakes Vegamótavatn and Fjórðungsvatn. In the southeast of the municipality is the Vatnajökull glacier. The shield volcano Trölladyngja located on the municipal boundary with Skútustaðahreppur to the east in the area of the large lava field Ódáðahraun.
South of Þingeyjarsveit are the communities Skaftárhreppur and Ásahreppur, Eyjafjarðarsveit west, northwest and Svalbarðsstrandarhreppur Grýtubakkahreppur, in the north- east, the municipality Norðurþing and east Skútustaðahreppur.
History
The community Þingeyjarsveit was on 15 November 2001 by the merger of rural communities Háls ( Hálshreppur ) Ljósavatn ( Ljósavatnshreppur ) Bárðdælahreppur and Reykdælahreppur formed.
26 April 2008 Aðaldalur ( Aðaldælahreppur, community number 6609 ) was incorporated into Þingeyjarsveit. Aðaldalur had issued an incorporation to Húsavík in a referendum on October 8, 2005, a cancellation.
Attractions
The Torfhof Grenjaðarstaður is opened museum since 1958.
Population Development
As now most areas except the southwest of Iceland around the capital Reykjavík, the area of Þingeyjarsveit of strong rural exodus was affected. From 1997 to 2005, the population decline was 16%. 2006 was recorded an increase in population, which in 2007 turned round again.
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Sons and daughters
- Múli: Jón Magnússon (1859-1926), Icelandic Prime Minister
- Sílalækur: Guðmundur Friðjónsson (1869-1944), Icelandic writer
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