Bodø

Bod? is a city and municipality in the county of Nordland, Norway.

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Bod? was granted township status in 1816 and is now county capital of Nordland. Most of Bod? was destroyed during a German attack 27th of May 1940. In 1940 6000 people lived in Bod?, after the German attack 3500 people had lost their houses. But only 15 people lost their life during the air-attack (2 British soldiers and 13 Norwegians). In the summer of 1940 Bod? suffered an acute lack of housing. Therefore the Swedes helped building 107 apartments in the winter of 1941. These houses were built tight together just outside the town of 1940. Thus this small area, today in the heart of Bod?, is still called "svenskebyen:" the Swedish town. No more buildings were built during the war, due to severe lack of wood and other resources

Municipality: A municipality or "general-purpose district" (compare with: "special-purpose district") is an administrative local area generally composed of a clearly defined territory and commonly referring to a city, town, or village government....

County: Originally, in continental Europe, a county was the land under the jurisdiction of a count. Counts are called "earls" in post-Celtic Great Britain and Ireland - the term is from Old Norse jarl and was introduced by the Vikings - but there is no correlation between "county" and "earldom." Rather, t...

Nordland: Nordland is a county in Norway, bordering Troms and Nord-Tr?ndelag. The county administration is in Bod?. The island of Jan Mayen is also administrated from Nordland....