Karasjok (village)

Karasjok (Northern Sami: Kárášjohka [ˈkʰaːraːʃˌjohka];[3] Kven: Kaarasjoki) is a municipality in Troms og Finnmark county, Norway.

Karasjok kommune
Kárašjoga gielda
Kaarasjoki
Municipality
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Troms og Finnmark within
Norway
Karasjok within Troms og Finnmark
Coordinates: 69°28′55″N 25°06′18″E
CountryNorway
CountyTroms og Finnmark
Established1 Jan 1866
Administrative centreKarasjok
Government
 • Mayor (2015)Svein Atle Somby (Ap)
Area
 • Total5,452.95 km2 (2,105.40 sq mi)
 • Land5,209.46 km2 (2,011.38 sq mi)
 • Water243.49 km2 (94.01 sq mi)  4.5%
Area rank2 in Norway
Population
 (2020)
 • Total2,628
 • Rank245 in Norway
 • Density0.5/km2 (1/sq mi)
 • Change (10 years)
−5.8%
Demonym(s)Karasjoking[1]
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
ISO 3166 codeNO-5437
Official language formBokmål and
Northern Sami[2]
Websitekarasjok.kommune.no
Data from Statistics Norway

The municipality (of which the urban area is a part,) has Sami and Norwegian as official languages.

The municipality is one of two in Norway where the majority of inhabitants speak Sami and have it as their main language.[4]

History

Before the beginning of the 1700s, there might not have been a permanent population there.[5] However the area was used by nomads.[5]

World War II

During World War II a Nazi concentration camp was built in Karasjok: Lager IV Karasjok (German for "Karasjok Camp No.4", Norwegian: Karasjok fangeleir).[6][7] The camp was run by SS, and it was among[8] the first four Nazi concentration camps in Northern Norway.

In July 1943, 374 political prisoners and POWs prisoners [mostly Yugoslav,] were brought to the concentration camp. They were tasked with widening the road to Karigasniemi, Finland.[9] After four or five months, only 111 of these prisoners were still alive.[9] At the end of the prisoners' stay in Karasjok, before transportation out of Karasjok, 45 prisoners were massacred by the firing of small arms.[9] At least one former prisoner is (as of 2013) still alive.[10]

After World War II

In 2015 the second edition of Sapmi Pride, the LGBT pride festival, was held in Karasjok.[11] To protest homosexuals attending the Karasjok Church, and to protest that a female priest held the services, Norges Samemisjon cancelled one of their radio broadcasts. [11]

Education

Main language of students at secondary school

The Sami secondary school, is one of two in Norway (as of 2014);[12] 73% of the schools students say that Sami is their main language; 27% say that Sami is their second language (as of the school year that started in [August] 2009 and ended in [June] 2010);[13] That school is run by the government.

References
  1. "Navn på steder og personer: Innbyggjarnamn" (in Norwegian). Språkrådet.
  2. "Forskrift om målvedtak i kommunar og fylkeskommunar" (in Norwegian). Lovdata.no.
  3. "Stadnamn og rettskriving" (in Norwegian). Kartverket. Archived from the original on 2018-07-01. Retrieved 2018-07-13.
  4. ÁVJOVÁRRI URFOLKSREGION I ET SAMISK PERSPEKTIV. page 19
  5. Dalfest, Terje; Askheim, Svein (19 January 2019). "Karasjok" – via Store norske leksikon.
  6. Sigurd Bakke Styrvold, "Heil og Sæl. Jeg er utdannet morder!" - Den norske SS Vaktbataljon 1942 – 45" (PDF), MA in history - University of Oslo (in Norwegian), p. 14
  7. Timm C. Richter. Krieg und Verbrechen: Situation und Intention: Fallbeispiele. 2006. p. 114
  8. Sigurd Bakke Styrvold, "Heil og Sæl. Jeg er utdannet morder!" - Den norske SS Vaktbataljon 1942 – 45" (PDF), MA in history - University of Oslo (in Norwegian), p. 14, Det fantes på forskjellige tidspunkter flere serberleire i Norge, men de norske vaktene gjorde bare tjeneste i de fire første; Lager I Beisfjord, Lager II Elsfjord, Lager III Rognan (også kjent som Botn) og Lager IV Karasjok
  9. Disse fangene bygget «blodveien» – og så ble de henrettet - De jugoslaviske fangene som var i Karasjok under andre verdenskrig skulle bare bygge veien til Finland, og deretter skulle de ikke eksistere mer. [These prisoners built 'the blood road' - and then they were executed - The Yugoslavian prisoners that were in Karasjok during World War Two, were only to build a road to Finland, and thereafter they were not to exist anymore]
  10. Larsen, Dan Robert (24 May 2013). "Følelsesladet møte med Karasjok". NRK.
  11. Larsen, Dan Robert (2 June 2016). "Flytter Sápmi Pride til Kautokeino". NRK.
  12. Fornyings-, administrasjons-og kirkedepartementet (20 August 2018). "Fakta om samiske språk". Regjeringen.no.
  13. "Urbefolkningen i tall - samisk statistikk". ssb.no.
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