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14-422: Stånga is also the name of the larger populated area, socken (not to be confused with parish ). It comprises the same area as the administrative Stånga District, established on 1   January 2016. Stånga is most noted for hosting the annual Stånga Games ( Swedish : Stångaspelen ). Stånga is the name of the locality surrounding the medieval Stånga Church , sometimes referred to as Stånga kyrkby . It

28-633: A location in Gotland County , Sweden is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Socken Socken ( Swedish: [ˈsʊ̌kːɛn] or [ˈsɔ̌kːɛn] ) is the name used for a part of a county in Sweden. In Denmark similar areas are known as sogn , in Norway sokn or sogn and in Finland pitäjä (socken) . A socken is an rural area formed around a church, typically in

42-524: A sovereign state such as the Principality of Monaco , to a small village such as West Hampton Dunes, New York . The territory over which a municipality has jurisdiction may encompass: Powers of municipalities range from virtual autonomy to complete subordination to the state . Municipalities may have the right to tax individuals and corporations with income tax , property tax , and corporate income tax , but may also receive substantial funding from

56-501: Is also the name of the socken as well as the district. Stånga is located in the southeast part of Gotland. As of 2019, Stånga Church belongs to Stånga-Burs parish in Burs pastorat , along with the church in Burs . One of the asteroids in the asteroid belt , 10131 Stånga , is named after this place. The Stånga Games ( Stångaspelen ), also referred to as the "Gotland Olympic Games",

70-801: Is an annual sports competition in Stånga. The first games were concluded on 27 July 1924. The games are held during five days around the second weekend in July and gathers about 2000 participants. Competitions are held in various Gutnish disciplines, some dating back to the Viking Age . The sports include Varpa , Pärk , Caber toss , Gutnish pentathlon , Pillow fight on a pole ( Herre på stång ), Leg hook ( Rövkrok ), Hobble kick ( Sparka Bleistre ), Tug of war , eight-man teams ( Dragkamp ), Two-men tug of war, facing ( Att dra hank ), Two-men tug of war, back to back ( Att täme stäut ) etc. This article about

84-657: Is derived from French municipalité , which in turn derives from the Latin municipalis , based on the word for social contract ( municipium ), referring originally to the Latin communities that supplied Rome with troops in exchange for their own incorporation into the Roman state (granting Roman citizenship to the inhabitants) while permitting the communities to retain their own local governments (a limited autonomy). A municipality can be any political jurisdiction , from

98-516: Is typically named after the main village and the original church. Socken, in old Swedish sokn (compare: Danish and bokmål sogn , nynorsk sokn ) is an archaic name for the original country church parishes, kyrksocken . It also describes a secular area, a sockenkommun ("rural area locality") or a taxation area, a jordbokssocken . In the Nordic countries a socken was an administrative area consisting of several villages or localities in much

112-404: Is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term municipality may also mean the governing body of a given municipality. A municipality is a general-purpose administrative subdivision, as opposed to a special-purpose district . The English word

126-570: The Fastighetsdatareformen ("Reform for registration of real property") 1976–1995 was complete. No further alterations to the sockens was made after this. On 1   January 2016, a new administrative division and area for statistics , registration districts or simply districts, was introduced in Sweden. Geographically, the districts correspond with the parishes of the Church of Sweden as of 31   December 1999. About 85% of

140-647: The Middle Ages. A socken originally served as a parish . Later it also served as a civil parish or an administrative parish , and became a predecessor to today's municipalities of Sweden , Finland , Norway and Denmark . Today it is a traditional area with frozen borders, in Sweden typically identical to those of the early 20th century rural parishes. The socken also served as a registration unit for buildings, in Sweden recently replaced by identical districts as registration unit. A socken consists of several villages and industry localities ( company towns ), and

154-534: The community living in the area and the common interest. These include terms: The same terms "Gemeente" (Dutch) or "Gemeinde" (German) may be used for church congregations or parishes, for example, in the German and Dutch Protestant churches. In Greece, the word Δήμος ( demos ) is used, also meaning 'community'; the word is known in English from the compound democracy (rule of the people). In some countries,

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168-443: The old sockens corresponds with the new districts. Even though the term socken is no longer used administratively in Sweden, it is still used for cataloging and registering historical archives ( Swedish National Heritage Board ), botany , dialect research, toponymy and by local historical societies. Socken is a convenient parameter for these purposes since it does not change with time. Municipality A municipality

182-511: The same way as the civil parishes in England , but the concept is not used in reference to towns. A socken had a socken church, it was governed by a socken council and it was the predecessor to modern municipalities In 1862, the kyrksockens ("church socken") and the sockenkommuns ("rural area locality") in Sweden were abolished as administrative areas during municipality reforms. The jordbrukssocken ("taxation area") remained in use until

196-478: The state. In some European countries, such as Germany, municipalities have the constitutional right to supply public services through municipally-owned public utility companies . Terms cognate with "municipality", mostly referring to territory or political structure, are Spanish municipio (Spain) and municipalidad (Chile), Catalan municipi , Portuguese município . In many countries, terms cognate with "commune" are used, referring to

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