Editing Sandnes (section)

==History==
[[File:Bilde 2.png|thumb|left|Map of the Stavanger/Sandnes region]]
[[File:Hommersåk sentrum.JPG|thumb|left|View of the village of [[Hommersåk]] ]]
The small port village of Sandnes was granted ''[[List of towns and cities in Norway|ladested]]'' (small seaport city) status in 1860. On 6 April 1861, the small city was separated from the municipality of [[Høyland]] to form a separate self-governing municipality of its own. Initially, the municipality had 440 residents.

On 1 July 1957, a small part of Høyland municipality (population: 18) was transferred to the city of Sandnes.<ref name=":0" />

During the 1960s, there were many municipal mergers across Norway due to the work of the [[Schei Committee]]. On 1 January 1965, the city and municipality of Sandnes (population: 3,961) was merged with the municipality of Høyland (population: 20,353) and parts of the municipalities of [[Høle (municipality)|Høle]] (population: 926) and [[Hetland]] (population: 2,077).<ref name=":0">{{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}}</ref>

In 2014, the [[Storting]] decided that the number of municipalities in Norway would be lowered. If the municipalities of Sandnes, Stavanger and Sola were to merge, a new municipality would be formed called Nord-Jæren, after the name of the geographical location the municipalities are located in. After the city council said no to the merge, proposals for [[Forsand]] to merge with Sandnes were enacted instead.

On 1 January 2017, a small {{convert|350|daa|acre|lk=on|adj=on}} area on the southwestern edge of the village of [[Solakrossen]] was transferred from Sandnes municipality to the neighboring municipality of [[Sola, Norway|Sola]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Vedtak om endring av kommunegrensen mellom Sandnes og Sola kommuner, Rogaland |url=https://lovdata.no/dokument/OV/forskrift/2015-12-22-1664 |access-date=2 November 2017 |publisher=Lovdata.no |language=no}}</ref>

On 1 January 2020, most of the neighboring municipality of Forsand was merged with Sandnes to form one large municipality called Sandnes.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Kommunereformen |url=https://www.forsand.kommune.no/kommunereform.335270.nn.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181122040354/http://www.forsand.kommune.no/kommunereform.335270.nn.html |archive-date=22 November 2018 |access-date=4 November 2017 |website=Forsand kommune |language=no}}</ref>

===Name===
The municipality (and city) is named after an old {{Lang|no|Sandnæs}} farm, since the city was built on its grounds. The first element is {{wikt-lang|no|sand}} which means '[[sand]]' or 'sandy beach' and the last element is {{wikt-lang|no|nes}} which means '[[headland]]'. The farm was located at the end of the [[Gandsfjorden]] where the city centre is located today.<ref name="snl">{{Cite web |last=Store norske leksikon |author-link=Store norske leksikon |title=Sandnes |url=https://snl.no/Sandnes |access-date=7 April 2016 |language=no}}</ref>

===Coat of arms===
[[File:Sandnes_edit.JPG|left|thumb|View of the city in 2008]]
The [[coat of arms]], granted on 21 April 1972, shows a white piece of [[pottery]] against a green background. Pottery was chosen since it was one of the main industries in the late 18th century. The symbol is a {{Lang|no|leirgauk}}, which in English would be a [[ceramic]] [[cuckoo]] bird ({{Lang|no|leir(e)}}, '[[clay]], ceramic' and {{Lang|no|gauk/gjøk}}, 'cuckoo bird'). The ceramic Sandnes cuckoo ({{langx|no|sandnesgauk}}) is an [[ocarina]] or simple flute which was made by the potteries in Sandnes and used to advertise their products. Later it also became a nickname for people from Sandnes.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Civic heraldry of Norway – Norske Kommunevåpen |url=http://www.ngw.nl/heraldrywiki/index.php?title=Sandnes |access-date=2016-04-07 |publisher=Heraldry of the World}}</ref>