- Aurskog
Aurskog is a former municipality in
Akershus county,Norway . The administrative centre wasAursmoen .The parish of "Urskog" was established as a municipality January 1, 1838 (see
formannskapsdistrikt ). On1 July 1919 the district ofBlaker was separated to form a municipality of its own. The split left Aurskog with a population of 3.102.On
1 January 1966 Aurskog was merged withNordre Høland ,Søndre Høland andSetskog to form the new municipalityAurskog-Høland . Prior to the merger Aurskog had a population of 3.129.The name
The municipality (originally the parish) is named after the old farm Ør (Norse "Aurr" 'gravel'), since the first church was built here. The last element is "skog" (Norse "skógr") 'wood' - and the meaning of the full name is 'the woods around the farm Aurr'.
Until 1918 the name was written "Urskog".
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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