Editing Nesna Municipality (section)

==General information==
[[File:Tomma001.JPG|thumb|left|375px|View of the island of [[Tomma]]]]
Nesna was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 (see [[formannskapsdistrikt]] law). The western island district of Nesna Municipality (population: 1,348) was separated from Nesna Municipality on 1 July 1888 to form the new [[Dønnes Municipality]]. This left Nesna Municipality with 2,958 residents. On 1 January 1919, the [[Bardalssjøen]] farm (population: 4) was transferred from [[Hemnes Municipality]] to Nesna Municipality. In 1945, a small area of southern Nesna Municipality (population: 26) was transferred to [[Leirfjord Municipality]].

During the 1960s, there were many municipal mergers across Norway due to the work of the [[Schei Committee]]. On 1 January 1962, the part of the island of [[Løkta]] (population: 80) belonging to Nesna Municipality was transferred to the new [[Dønna Municipality]]. The part of the island of [[Tomma]] (population: 80) belonging to [[Dønnes Municipality]] was transferred to Nesna Municipality. Then on 1 January 1964, the [[Bardalssjøen]] area of Nesna Municipality (located south of the [[Ranfjorden]]), was transferred to [[Leirfjord Municipality]]. On that same date, the part of Nesna around the inner part of the [[Sjona]] fjord was transferred to [[Rana Municipality]].<ref name="Dag">{{Cite web |last=Jukvam |first=Dag |year=1999 |title=Historisk oversikt over endringer i kommune- og fylkesinndelingen |url=http://www.ssb.no/emner/00/90/rapp_9913/rapp_9913.pdf |publisher=[[Statistics Norway|Statistisk sentralbyrå]] |language=no |isbn=9788253746845}}</ref>

===Name===
The municipality (originally the [[prestegjeld|parish]]) is named after the old ''Nesna'' farm ({{langx|non|Nesnar}}) since the first [[Nesna Church]] was built there. The name is derived from the word {{wikt-lang|non|nes}} which means "[[headland]]".<ref>{{Cite book |last=Rygh |first=Oluf |author-link=Oluf Rygh |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K21BAAAAIAAJ |title=Norske gaardnavne: Nordlands amt |publisher=W. C. Fabritius & sønners bogtrikkeri |year=1905 |edition=16 |location=Kristiania, Norge |pages=119 |language=no}}</ref> Historically, the name of the municipality was spelled ''Nesne''. On 6 January 1908, a [[royal decree|royal resolution]] changed the spelling of the name of the municipality to ''Nesna''.<ref>{{Cite journal |year=1908 |title=Norsk Lovtidende. 2den Afdeling. 1908. Samling af Love, Resolutioner m.m |url=https://www.nb.no/items/URN:NBN:no-nb_digitidsskrift_2015110481021_001 |journal=[[Norsk Lovtidend]] |language=no |location=Kristiania, Norge |publisher=Grøndahl og Søns Boktrykkeri |page=24}}</ref>

===Coat of arms===
The [[coat of arms]] was granted on 23 June 1989. The official [[blazon]] is ''"[[Per chevron]] inverted [[Or (heraldry)|Or]] and [[Azure (heraldry)|Azure]]"'' ({{langx|no|Delt av gull og blått ved omvendt sparresnitt}}). This means the arms have a [[field (heraldry)|field]] (background) that is [[Line (heraldry)|divided by a line]] in the form of an inverted [[Chevron (heraldry)|chevron]] pattern. The background above the line has a [[tincture (heraldry)|tincture]] of [[Or (heraldry)|Or]] which means it is commonly colored yellow, but if it is made out of metal, then gold is used. The background below the line has a tincture of [[azure (heraldry)|azure]]. The arms are a [[canting arms|canting]] of the name of the municipality (''Nesna'' comes form ''nes'' which means [[headland]] in Norwegian). The arms show a yellow-colored "headland" or peninsula surrounded by blue water. The arms were designed by Jarle E. Henriksen.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Civic heraldry of Norway - Norske Kommunevåpen |url=https://www.heraldry-wiki.com/heraldrywiki/index.php?title=Nesna |access-date=2023-02-04 |publisher=Heraldry of the World}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Nesna, Nordland (Norway) |url=https://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/no-18-28.html |access-date=2023-02-04 |website=Flags of the World}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=1989-09-09 |title=Godkjenning av våpen og flagg |url=https://lovdata.no/dokument/LF/forskrift/1989-06-23-593 |access-date=2023-02-04 |website=Lovdata.no |publisher=Norges kommunal- og arbeidsdepartementet |language=no}}</ref><ref name="snl">{{Cite web |last=Store norske leksikon |author-link=Store norske leksikon |title=Nesna – Kommune i Nordland |url=http://snl.no/Nesna/kommune_i_Nordland |access-date=2012-01-24 |language=no}}</ref>

===Churches===
[[File:Church of Nesna.JPG|thumb|left|[[Nesna Church]]]]
The [[Church of Norway]] has one parish ({{lang|no|sokn}}) within Nesna Municipality. It is part of the [[Nord-Helgeland prosti]] ([[deanery]]) in the [[Diocese of Sør-Hålogaland]].

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
|+ style="font-size:medium"|'''''Churches in Nesna'''''
!Parish ({{lang|no|sokn}})!!Church name!!Location of the church!!Year built
|-
|rowspan="3"|Nesna||[[Nesna Church]]||[[Nesna (village)|Nesna]]||1880
|-
|[[Handnesøya Chapel]]||[[Saura, Nordland|Saura]]||1969
|-
|[[Husby Chapel]]||[[Husby, Norway|Husby]]||1905
|}