, , or is a village in

Alta Municipality Alta (; ; ; ) is the most populated List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Finnmark Counties of Norway, county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the Alta (town), town of Alta. Some of the main villages in the ...

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. It is located on the western shore of the

Altafjorden The Altafjord (; ; ) is a fjord in Alta Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. The long fjord stretches from the town of Alta in the south to the islands of Stjernøya and Seiland. The long river Altaelva empties into the fjord at the tow ...

, along the

European route E6 European route E6 (, , or simply E6) is the main north–south thoroughfare through Norway as well as the west coast of Sweden. It is long and runs from the southern tip of Sweden at Trelleborg, into Norway and through almost all of the countr ...

highway. The village has a population (2023) of 291 and a

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of .

History

The village is an old Norwegian trading centre since the 1600s.

Talvik Church Talvik Church () is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Alta Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. It is located in the village of Talvik, along the Altafjorden and the European route E06 highway. It is main church for the Talvik parish ...

is located in the village. The village of Talvik was the

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of the old municipality of Talvik from 1863 until 1964 when it was merged into Alta municipality.

Name

The village is named after the old ''Talvik'' farm since the first

was built there. The first element of the name is rather uncertain. If the first element was of

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origin then it is derived from the word which means "

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" (due to the large number of pine trees in the area). The other explanation is that it is a corruption of the

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word or the longer name (historic spelling) which translates as "fog" or "fog bay". The early Norwegian settlers would have translated that as (meaning "fog bay") and this could have been corrupted from to . The last element of the name is which means "inlet" or "cove". Historically, the name was spelled ''Talvig'' using the old Danish spelling, and later it was "Norwegianized" to ''Talvik''.

Media gallery

Talvik - panoramio.jpg, Winter view of the village 24. juli 2006 Norge, Frokostpause i Talvik.jpg, View of the village in 2006 Finnmark zwischen Alta und Mageröya 2.JPG, Summer view of the harbor Talvik church 2.jpg, View of the local church

References

External links

* * {{authority control Alta, Norway Populated places of Arctic Norway