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| Coordinates:69°26′37″N23°40′01″E / 69.44361°N 23.66694°E /69.44361; 23.66694 | |
| Country | Norway |
| Region | Northern Norway |
| County | Finnmark |
| District | Vest-Finnmark |
| Municipality | Kautokeino |
| Elevation | 282 m (925 ft) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| Post Code | 9525 Maze |
Masi (Norwegian) orMáze (Northern Sami) orMaasi (Finnish) is a village inKautokeino Municipality inFinnmark county,Norway.
The village is by a river calledKautokeinoelva, which is part of the Alta river. It's about 60 kilometers south of a town calledAlta and also about 60 kilometers north of another village calledKautokeino. Most of the people in the village areSami, who are native to the Fennoscandinavian peninsula and not from Norway.[2]
Masi Church has been there since the 1600s. The church now is a new one because the old one got burned down by German soldiers during World War II.
In the late 1970s, the Norwegian government wanted to build a big power station downstream from Masi. They thought this would flood Masi, the area around Kautokeino, and where reindeer graze. People protested against this, and it became known as theAlta controversy.
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