Editing Tana Municipality (section)

==History==
[[File:River boats Tana.jpg|thumb|left|View of the local river boats]]
On 1 January 1864, the large [[Lebesby Municipality]] was divided into two. The eastern part (population: 1,388) became the new Tane Municipality and the rest remained as Lebesby. Initially, Tana Municipality included all the land on both sides surrounding the [[Tanafjorden]] and the [[Tana River (Norway)|Tana River]].<ref name="Dag" />

On 1 January 1914, the municipality of Tana was divided into three parts. The southern part (population: 1,426) remained as (a smaller) Tana Municipality. The northern part of the municipality was divided by the Tanafjorden with the western side becoming [[Gamvik Municipality]] (population: 1,374) and the eastern side becoming [[Berlevåg Municipality]] (population: 784). On 1 January 1964, the neighboring [[Polmak Municipality]] (population: 1,072) was merged into Tana. (Polmak was originally part of [[Nesseby Municipality]] before 1 January 1903 when it became a separate 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}}</ref>

Tana Municipality marks the furthest Soviet advance into Nazi-occupied Norway.

On 1 January 2020, the municipality became part of the newly formed [[Troms og Finnmark]] county. Previously, it had been part of the old [[Finnmark]] county.<ref name="snl5">{{Cite encyclopedia |title=Troms og Finnmark |encyclopedia=[[Store norske leksikon]] |publisher=[[Kunnskapsforlaget]] |url=https://snl.no/Troms_og_Finnmark |access-date=2019-12-26 |date=2019-12-24 |editor-last=Mæhlum |editor-first=Lars |language=no}}</ref> On 1 January 2024, the [[Troms og Finnmark]] county was divided and the municipality once again became part of [[Finnmark]] county.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-07-05 |title=Fylkesinndelingen fra 2024 |url=https://www.regjeringen.no/no/tema/kommuner-og-regioner/kommunestruktur/fylkesinndelingen-fra-2024/id2922222/ |publisher=Regjeringen.no |language=no}}</ref>

===Name===
The municipality (originally the [[prestegjeld|parish]]) was originally named ''Tanen'', a Norwegianized form of the [[Northern Sami language|Northern Sami]] name for the area, {{lang|se|Deanu}}. The Sami name is identical to the [[genitive case]] of Sami word {{wikt-lang|non|deatnu}} which means "great [[river]]" or "large river", referring to the main river ([[Tana River (Norway)|Tana River]]) which runs through the municipality. Historically, the name of the municipality was spelled ''Tanen''. On 3 November 1917, a [[royal decree|royal resolution]] changed the spelling of the name of the municipality to ''Tana''.<ref>{{Cite journal |year=1917 |title=Norsk Lovtidende. 2den Afdeling. 1917. Samling af Love, Resolutioner m.m |url=https://www.nb.no/items/URN:NBN:no-nb_digitidsskrift_2015102381014_001 |journal=[[Norsk Lovtidend]] |language=no |location=Kristiania, Norge |publisher=Grøndahl og Søns Boktrykkeri |pages=1057-1065}}</ref>

On 1 September 1992, the name of the municipality was changed to "Deatnu-Tana" to symbolize the two official languages in the municipality.<ref name="Dag" /><ref>{{Cite web |date=5 July 2002 |title=Ot.prp. nr. 111 (2001-2002) |url=http://www.regjeringen.no/nb/dep/fad/dok/regpubl/otprp/20012002/Otprp-nr-111-2001-2002-.html?id=125740 |language=no}}</ref> Then in 2005, the name was again changed such that either ''Deatnu'' or ''Tana'' can be used.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Endring av skrivemåten for tospråklige kommuner. |url=http://www.lovdata.no/cgi-wift/wiztldles?doc=/usr/www/lovdata/for/lf/ov/ov-20041210-1636.html |language=no}}</ref> The Sami language name spelling changes depending on how it is used. It is called {{lang|se|Deatnu}} when it is spelled alone, but it is {{lang|se|Deanu gielda}} when using the Sami language equivalent to "Deanu municipality".<ref name="sami name" />

===Coat of arms===
The [[coat of arms]] was granted on 11 May 1984. The official [[blazon]] is ''"[[Gules]], three boats [[Or (heraldry)|Or]] in [[Pale (heraldry)|pale]]"'' ({{langx|no|I rødt tre gule båter}}). This means the arms have a red [[field (heraldry)|field]] (background) and the [[charge (heraldry)|charge]] is three [[riverboat]]s. The riverboat 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 red and yellow colors in the arms were chosen to mimic the Norwegian national arms. The three riverboats were chosen because boats like this have been used in the area for centuries. There are three boats to symbolize the three ethnic groups in the border municipality: the [[Sámi people|Sámi]], [[Kven people|Kven]]s, and [[Norwegians]]. The arms were designed by Arvid Sveen.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Civic heraldry of Norway - Norske Kommunevåpen |url=https://www.heraldry-wiki.com/heraldrywiki/index.php?title=Tana |access-date=2023-01-21 |publisher=Heraldry of the World}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Tana, Finmark (Norway) |url=https://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/no-20-25.html |access-date=2023-01-21 |website=Flags of the World}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=1984-07-15 |title=Godkjenning av våpen og flagg |url=https://lovdata.no/dokument/LF/forskrift/1984-05-11-1104?q=flagg |access-date=2023-01-21 |website=Lovdata.no |publisher=Norges kommunal- og arbeidsdepartementet |language=no}}</ref>