Høland

Høland

Høland is a former municipality in Akershus county, Norway.

It was created in 1837 as Høland formannskapsdistrikt. The district Setskog 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 municipalities Nordre Høland and Søndre 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 and Høylandet.)

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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