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Source: Statistics Norway. Fana is a borough of the city of Bergen in Vestland county, Norway. The borough makes up the southeastern part of the municipality of Bergen. The borough was once part of the historic municipality of Fana which was incorporated into Bergen in 1972. The old municipality was much larger than the present-day borough of Fana.
- 150.99 km² (58.30 sq mi)
- Vestland
Fana, section of the city of Bergen, Hordaland fylke (county), southwestern Norway, opposite Store Sotra Island. Raune Fjord and its smaller branches, especially Fana Fjord, cut into Fana’s irregular coastline. Most of the settlements in Fana date to the early European Middle Ages, when the area was an agricultural hinterland of Bergen. By ...
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Fana is a former municipality in the old Hordaland county in Norway. The municipality was located in the central part of the Bergen Peninsula, south of the city of Bergen. The administrative centre of the municipality was the village of Nesttun. The roughly 200-square-kilometre (77 sq mi) municipality existed from 1838 until 1972 when it had ...
- 1 Jan 1838
- Hordaland
Fana Church ( Norwegian: Fana Kirke) is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Bergen Municipality in Vestland county, Norway. It is located in Fanahammeren, a village in the borough of Fana in the city of Bergen. It is one of the two churches for the Fana parish which is part of the Fana prosti ( deanery) in the Diocese of Bjørgvin.
- 450
- Church of Norway
- c. 1153
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Mar 25, 2016 · Fantoft Stave Church haniyarae (Atlas Obscura User) (Used with Permission) Located in the Fana borough in Bergen, Norway, is a blackened stave church that is nearly a millennium old. Or it would ...
Fana, Norway. Fana Church history is long and complicated. Historians assert that the church has been rebuilt and enlarged several times. Fana Church was mentioned in writings for the first time in 1228, when Pope Gregory IX released a conscription to the vicar and brothers at 'the holy cross church and hospital in Fana'.
