- Høland
Høland is a former municipality in
Akershus county, Norway.It was created in 1837 as Høland
formannskapsdistrikt . The districtSetskog was separated from Høland to form a separate municipality January 1, 1905. The split left Høland with 4,928 inhabitants.Høland municipality existed until
1 July 1924 , when it was split to form the two new municipalitiesNordre Høland andSøndre Høland . Before the partition Høland had a population of 5,294.The origins of the name
The name is first mentioned in 1348 ("a Høylandum").fact|date=October 2008 It is an old district name (the name of the church site is Løken). The first element is "høy" '
hay ', the last element is "land" 'land' (originally in plural).fact|date=October 2008(See also the names of
Hølonda andHøylandet .)References
*cite paper | author=Dag Jukvam / Statistics Norway | title=Historisk oversikt over endringer i kommune- og fylkesinndelingen | date=1999 | url=http://www.ssb.no/emner/00/90/rapp_9913/rapp_9913.pdfl
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