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Thomas Fasting (25 February 1769 – 21 November 1841) was a Norwegian Naval officer and government minister.

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15-719: Fasting was born at Lista in Lister , Norway. He was the son of Lieutenant Colonel Soren Christian Fasting (1729–1782) and Benedicte Tyrholm (1734–1774). He started serving in the Royal Dano-Norwegian Navy in 1785. He became captain of the warship «Ærøe» in 1795, stationed in the Danish West Indies . He was also fighting in the Battle of Copenhagen in 1801. In the Gunboat War from 1807 to 1814, he

30-486: A base for offshore operations. Lista is located on a large peninsula along the Listafjorden and is home to the villages of Vestbygd and Vanse and the town of Farsund . The municipality of Vanse was established on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt law). According to the 1835 census, the municipality had a population of 4,213. On 1 January 1903, an area with 99 inhabitants was transferred from Vanse to

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60-440: Is vin which means " meadow " or " pasture ". On 3 November 1917, a royal resolution changed the spelling of the name of the municipality to Lista . This was changed to bring back a modern version of the historical name for the area. The new name comes from the local peninsula called Lista ( Old Norse : Listi ). The name comes from the word listi which means "border" or "edge", likely signifying its location on

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90-505: The Realm ( Riksrett ) in 1821. This article about a Norwegian politician born in the 1760s is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Lista Lista is a former municipality located in the old Vest-Agder county in Norway . The 193-square-kilometre (75 sq mi) municipality existed from 1838 until its dissolution in 1965. The administrative centre was

105-603: The 💕 [REDACTED] Look up vin  or VIN in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Vin or VIN may refer to: Abbreviations and codes [ edit ] Arts, entertainment, and media [ edit ] Vos Iz Neias? , American Jewish online news site Coastal radio station VIN Geraldton (callsign), a station in the former Australian coastal radio service Places [ edit ] Havryshivka Vinnytsia International Airport (IATA code), Vinnytsia, Ukraine Saint Vincent and

120-408: The merger, Lista had a population of 4,544. The municipality (originally the parish ) was originally named after the old Vanse farm ( Old Norse : Vanesyn ) since the first Vanse Church was built there. The meaning of the first element is uncertain. It is possible that the first element is derived from the plural of vanr which means " Vanir ", a group of Old Norse gods. The last element

135-478: The neighboring town of Farsund . Again in 1948, another area with 64 inhabitants was transferred from Lista to the town of Farsund. During the 1960s, there were many major municipal mergers across Norway due to the work of the Schei Committee . On 1 January 1965, the municipalities of Lista, Herad , and Spind were merged with the town of Farsund to create a new, larger municipality of Farsund . Prior to

150-827: The next 24 years he was Secretary of the Naval administrative. He served as a member of the Council of State Division in Stockholm for six periods between 1817 and 1836. He was Minister of the Navy in eight periods between 1815 and 1839, as well as head of the Ministry of the Army in 1828 and 1832. Fasting was the first individual ever convicted in an impeachment trial by the Norwegian Constitutional Court of

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180-564: The southern edge of Norway. From 1662 until 1919, Vest-Agder county was named "Lister og Mandals amt " , signifying the significance of the area. (The name Lista was misunderstood by Danish clerks as a plural form and therefore written with the plural ending -er .) While it existed, this municipality was responsible for primary education (through 10th grade), outpatient health services , senior citizen services, unemployment , social services , zoning , economic development , and municipal roads . During its existence, this municipality

195-464: The village of Vanse where Vanse Church is located. Lista municipality was historically known as the municipality of Vanse until 1911. The former municipality's land is now located in the present-day municipality of Farsund in Agder county. Farsund Airport, Lista is located here, but it has not had any regularly scheduled commercial flights since 1999; however, there are discussions to use it as

210-535: Was commander of Fredrikstad Fortress and later captain of the warship Dantzich . Fasting was given command of the Royal Norwegian Navy after the union with Denmark ended in the spring of 1814, and was the commander of the navy during the war with Sweden . By fall of that year, he was a member of the interim government. In 1815, he was appointed minister in the Department of the Navy, and for

225-460: Was governed by a municipal council of directly elected representatives. The mayor was indirectly elected by a vote of the municipal council. The mayors ( Norwegian : ordfører ) of Lista: The municipal council (Herredsstyre) of Lista was made up of representatives that were elected to four year terms. The tables below show the historical composition of the council by political party . vin#Old Norse From Misplaced Pages,

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