- Spøttrup Municipality
Until
January 1 ,2007 Spøttrup municipality was a municipality (Danish, "kommune") in the formerViborg County on the Salling Peninsula, a part of the largerJutland peninsula in northwestDenmark . The municipality covered an area of 189 km², and had a total population of 7,902 (2005).Spøttrup municipality ceased to exist as the result of "Kommunalreformen" ("The Municipality Reform" of 2007). It was merged with Sallingsund, Skive, and Sundsøre municipalities to form the new Skive municipality. This created a municipality with an area of 682 km² and a total population of 48,368 (2005). The new municipality belongs to
Region Midtjylland ("Mid-Jutland Region").The municipality was named after Spøttrup Castle ("Spøttrup Borg").
External links
* [http://www.skivekommune.dk/ Skive municipality's official website (Danish only)]
References
*Municipal statistics: [http://www2.netborger.dk/Kommunefakta/ NetBorger Kommunefakta] , delivered from [http://www.kmd.dk/ KMD] aka Kommunedata (Municipal Data)
*Municipal mergers and neighbors: [http://kommune.eniro.dk/region/media/nyekommuner.shtml Eniro new municipalities map]
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