Stjørna is a former municipality in Sør-Trøndelag

Sør-Trøndelag

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 county, Norway

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

. It encompassed the land around the Stjørnfjord

Stjørnfjord

The Stjørnfjord or Stjørnfjorden is an arm of Trondheimsfjord that flows through the municipalities of Bjugn, Ørland, and Rissa in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. The long fjord stretches southwest from the mouth of the Nordelva river near the village of Råkvåg to the Trondheimsfjord near Brekstad...

. The administrative centre of Stjørna was the village of Husbysjøen

Husbysjøen

Husbysjøen is a village in the municipality of Rissa in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. It was the administrative centre of the former municipality of Stjørna prior to its merger into neighboring Rissa in 1964....

, which today is located in Rissa

Rissa, Norway

Rissa is a municipality in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. It is part of the Fosen region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Årnset...

. The municipality of Stjørna also included the villages of Høybakken

Høybakken

Høybakken is a village in the municipality of Bjugn in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. It is located along the Stjørnfjord, about south of the municipal center of Botngård. The area was once part of the municipality of Stjørna. The village is home to the Heggvik church....

, Råkvåg

Råkvåg

Råkvåg or Råkvågen is a village in the municipality of Rissa in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. It is located at the inner part of the Stjørnfjord in the northern part of Rissa. It is about north of Husbysjøen and about east of Høybakken in Bjugn. The Ramsvik Church lies just south of the...

, and Fevåg.

History

The municipality of Skjørn was established on 1 January 1899 when the old municipality of Bjugn

Bjugn

Bjugn is a municipality in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. It is part of the Fosen region. The village of Botngård is the administrative centre of Bjugn municipality...

 was split into three: Bjugn

Bjugn

Bjugn is a municipality in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. It is part of the Fosen region. The village of Botngård is the administrative centre of Bjugn municipality...

, Skjørn, and Nes

Nes, Sør-Trøndelag

Nes is a former municipality in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. It is also a village in the present-day municipality of Bjugn. Nes is located about east of the Tarva islands and about west of Botngård...

. Initially, Skjørn had a population of 2,166. In 1918, the spelling of the name was changed from Skjørn to Stjørna. On 1 January 1964, the northern part of the municipality (Nord-Stjørna) (population: 676) was merged back into Bjugn

Bjugn

Bjugn is a municipality in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. It is part of the Fosen region. The village of Botngård is the administrative centre of Bjugn municipality...

 while the southern part (Sør-Stjørna) (population: 1,868) became a part of Rissa

Rissa, Norway

Rissa is a municipality in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. It is part of the Fosen region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Årnset...

to the south.