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Bodo - History |
Bodo is a port and the administrative centre for Nordland fylke (county), north-central Norway. It is located at the northern entrance to Salt Fjord. It is a relatively fast growing city with some 40,000 inhabitants. Bodø was founded by Trondheim merchants and chartered in 1816. A commercial-fishing centre specializing in cod drying, it also has ship repair yards and a brewery. In World War II much of the town was destroyed by German air and ground action, but it has been completely rebuilt and enlarged. Reconstruction included a large airport and the extension of the North Norway Railway to Bodø from Lønsdal to the south. Bodø had arms and flag approved 24 July 1959: A yellow sun on red. The designer was the grand old man of Norwegian heraldry, Hallvard Trætteberg. He took an element - the sun - from the arms Bodø had used since 1889. These arms also included a boat on the sea in front of a range of mountains (really the profile of an island off the coast of the city). Bodø is the first Norwegian city north of the Arctic Circle, and so the sun represents the midnight sun. |
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