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Eastern Norway, Norway • http://www.vinje.kommune.no

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Vinje is a municipality in county, . It is part of the traditional region of Vest-Telemark. The administrative center of the municipality is the village of Åmot.

The municipality of Vinje (originally the parish) is named after the old Vinje farm (Old Norse: Vinjar), since the first church was built here. The name is the plural form of vin which means "meadow" or "pasture".The coat-of-arms is from modern times. They were granted on 16 November 1990. The arms show a silver goat on a blue background. It is a symbol for the goat- and sheep farming in the municipality.

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