Bjerkreim is a municipality in the Rogaland county, Norway.

The municipality ( originally the parish ) is named after the old Bjerkreim farm ( Old Norse: Bjarkarheimr ), since the first church was built there.

( In Norwegian place names the Old Norse word heimr is often weakened to just-um ,-eim ,-im, or even just-m. See for instance Bærum, Elverum, Modum, Sørum, Bjerkreim, Askim and Sem.

Dalane is a traditional district in the south-western part of Norway, consisting of the municipalities Lund, Sokndal, Eigersund and Bjerkreim.

Nature has been generous in giving Bjerkreim many idyllic places, making Bjerkreim a good place to live by living in a countryside environment, but still relatively close to a major city, Stavanger.

The two and a half thousand inhabitants in Bjerkreim have a total area of 585 km² at their disposal.

In the northwest the municipality borders Sandnes, to the north Forsand, to the east Sirdal, to the south Bjerkreim, and to the west Time.

Gjæsdal was established as a municipality in 1838, and in 1965 it was merged with parts of Bjerkreim, Forsand, and Høle.

On 1 January 1965, Gjestal ( pop: 3, 353 ) was merged with Frafjord, Dirdal, Byrkjedal, Øvre Maudal and Østabødal districts of Forsand ( pop: 621 ), Nedre Maudal of Bjerkreim ( pop: 40 ) and Oltesvik of Høle ( pop: 37 ), greatly increasing the area of the municipality.

Released just before the tow aircraft crashed, the second glider spiralled out of control and crash-landed in the mountains between Helleland and Bjerkreim.

* Betty Ann Bjerkreim Nilsen ( b. 1986 ), Norwegian orienteering competitor and cross country skier

The political unrest of the late 1920s led to the victory of Republican candidates in local council elections throughout the country, and the abdication of King Alfonso XIII.

The construction boom has raised many environmental concerns and both the local autonomous government and city council are under scrutiny by the European Union.

Angus () is one of the 32 local government council areas of Scotland, a registration county and a lieutenancy area.

Within 2 weeks of the Golden Gate Yacht Club winning the America's Cup, Alameda city council with local support sent a unanimous letter of support to hold AC 34 in San Francisco Bay Area.

The parish council, which has 15 members who are elected for four years, is responsible for local issues, including setting an annual precept ( local rate ) to cover the council ’ s operating costs and producing annual accounts for public scrutiny.

The parish council evaluates local planning applications and works with the police, district council officers, and neighbourhood watch groups on matters of crime, security, and traffic.

Sedgemoor is responsible for local planning and building control, local roads, council housing, environmental health, markets and fairs, refuse collection and recycling, cemeteries and crematoria, leisure services, parks, and tourism.

Until the formation of a national council in 1961, supporters and local groups had no formal voice in the national organisation, which until then had been led by the self-appointed executive committee.

The emblem of Dimona ( as a local council ), adopted 2 March 1961, appeared on a stamp issued on 24 March 1965.

The Communist Party of Britain and The Socialist Workers Party, neither of which have any considerable power or influence, with not one seat in Parliament nor in a local council, both criticise the European Union from an ultra-left perspective and their " scepticism " is a form of left-wing euroscepticism although its adherents may reject the term.

In 2011, all the municipalities held local elections, and in Geneva there were 80 spots open on the municipal council.

The Granville Municipality was formed in 1885 and the council carried on the local government of the area until 1948, when it became part of an enlarged City of Parramatta.

In the 2004 local elections at county level it increased its number of councillors from 8 to 18 out of 883 and at town council level its number of councillors increased from 5 to 14 out of 744.

In the period after the Flanders Campaign which led to the French occupation of the Netherlands from 1794-1815, Haarlem's economy was severely depressed and the city council sought a local hero.

At the local level, the island's 22 provinces are administered by a governor and provincial council.

Since local government reorganisation, the unit in England, Northern Ireland and Wales is known as a district, and in Scotland as a council area.

Malta is divided into 68 elected local councils, with each council responsible for the administration of cities or regions of varying sizes.

The more visited eastern part of the park is managed by Narok County Council and the western part, known as the Mara Triangle, by the Trans-Mara county council, which is contracting management to the Mara Conservancy, a local nonprofit organization formed by the local Maasai that contains several anti-poaching units.

A. Hort and Adolf Harnack argued that the Nicene creed was the local creed of Caesarea ( an important center of Early Christianity ) brought to the council by Eusebius of Caesarea.

-- liberal considers that the need for a national economy with controls that will assure his conception of social justice is so great that individual and local liberties as well as democratic processes may have to yield before it.

He is a Craig's wife who agonizes about tobacco ash on the living room rug and he is a forgetful genius who goes boating with the town baker when dignitaries from the local university have come to call.

In this domain the simple fact of coexistence in the same local, national, and world community is enough to guarantee that we cannot refrain from having some effect, large or small, upon Gentile-Jewish relations.

This is not to deny the existence of pogroms and ghettos, but only to assert that these horrors have had an effect on the nerves of people who did not experience them, that among the various side effects is the local hysteria of Jewish writers and intellectuals who cry out from confusion, which they call oppression and pain.

Through all this raving, Krim is performing a traditional and by now boring rite, the attack on intelligence, upon the largely successful attempt of the magazines he castigates to liberate American writing from local color and other varieties of romantic corn.

A road block to desirable local or borough improvements, heretofore dependent on the pocketbook vote of taxpayers and hence a drag on progress, is removed by making these a charge against the whole city instead of an assessment paid by those immediately affected.

As a source of investment capital, the system is beneficial to local communities and encourages the development of industries in rural areas.

This problem of fair and equitable assessment of value is a difficult one to solve in that the determination of fair valuation is dependent on local assessors, who in general are non-professional and part-time personnel taking an individualistic approach to the problem.

This condition will undoubtedly continue until such time as a state uniform system of evaluation is established, or through mutual agreement of the local assessing officials for a method of standard assessment practice to be adopted.

The Federal Government is aiding local governments in several places to survey residential, commercial and industrial buildings to determine what fallout protection they would provide, and for how many people.

In the event that agreement is not reached on the use of the rupees for grant or loan purposes within six years from the date of this Agreement, the Government of the United States of America may use the local currency for any purposes authorized by Section 104 of the Act.

A minor is subject to tax on his own earnings even though his parent may, under local law, have the right to them and might actually have received the money.

and it is to be noted also that confidence should grow from remembering that great men often appeared in the past to turn local catastrophe into future good for all mankind.

Having a boat financed through a local bank is done much the same way as an automobile loan is extended.

It is always wise to consult your marine dealer, local yacht or boat club secretary, or local law enforcement officers if you are not positive what the regulations are.

However, there is also much to be gained by making use of the abilities of the local people who are available and interested in recreation.

Not a year goes by but what several local companies in the U.S. and Canada, even overseas, write to Fueloil & Oil Heat to inquire if it's feasible and where it is being done.

For this first development the supplier signing the lease is a major oil company but in turn the deal is being transferred for operation to its local fueloil distributor.

Oddly enough, this is an amulet against housebreakers, presented to the mem and me by a local rajah in 1949.