Editing Arjeplog (section)

== History ==
The name, first recorded in 1636 as the name of the [[Sámi peoples|Sami]] village and in 1640 as the church and marketplace, is a Swedish adaptation of ''Árjepluovve''.<ref>"Arieploo" – Länsräkenskaper 1631–1820, Norrlands län 1635: Mantalslängd för Pite lappmark 1636, fol. 195. Riksarkivet, Stockholm.</ref><ref>"AriePlogh" – Bergskollegii arkiv: Registratur 1640 under d. 22 juli, fol. 117. Riksarkivet, Stockholm.</ref> The suffix is ''pluovve'', meaning 'wet marsh,' while the prefix contains the genitive of (''h'')''árijje'', meaning 'ridge'.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Svenskt ortnamnslexikon {{!}} WorldCat.org |url=https://search.worldcat.org/title/962181095 |access-date=2024-08-01 |website=search.worldcat.org |language=en}}</ref>

Arjeplog is known for, among other things, "the Lapland doctor" Einar Wallquist's creation, the Silver Museum, which was inaugurated in 1965. Arjeplog is a church village in the Arjeplog parish that, when the 1862 municipal reform was implemented in Lapland, formed Arjeplog Rural Municipality in 1874. The Rural Municipality was, in 1971, transformed without changes into [[Arjeplog Municipality]] with Arjeplog as the central locality.