- Ålen
Ålen is the administrative centre of
Holtålen municipality inSør-Trøndelag county,Norway .It is also a former municipality, created in 1855 by a split from Holtaalen. At that time Ålen had a population of 1.487. An uninhabited part of Ålen was moved to
Røros in 1875. The remaining part of Holtålen changed its name toHaltdalen in 1937.On
1 January 1972 Ålen was merged with Haltdalen to once again form the municipality Holtålen. Prior to the merger Ålen municipality had a population of 1.944.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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