Eidsberg is a municipality

Municipalities of Norway

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 in Østfold

Østfold

is a county in southeastern Norway, bordering Akershus and southwestern Sweden , while Buskerud and Vestfold is on the other side of the bay. The seat of the county administration is Sarpsborg, and Fredrikstad is the largest city.Many manufacturing facilities are situated here. Moss and...

 county

Counties of Norway

Norway is divided into 19 administrative regions, called counties . The counties form the primary first-level subdivisions of Norway and are further divided into 430 municipalities...

, Norway

Norway

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. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Mysen

Mysen

Mysen is the administrative center of the municipality of Eidsberg in the county of Østfold in Norway.Between 1920 and 1961, it was a separate municipality. Mysen became an independent municipality on 1 July 1920 when it was spun off from Eidsberg. On 1 January 1961 Mysen was merged again with...

. Neighboring municipalities are Rakkestad

Rakkestad

Rakkestad is a municipality in Østfold county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Rakkestad. It is divided into the parishes of Rakkestad, Degernes, and Os. The municipality is the county's second largest by area and one of Norway's largest agricultural...

, Askim

Askim

is a town and a municipality in Østfold county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Askim. Askim was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 ....

, Skiptvet

Skiptvet

Skiptvet is a municipality in Østfold county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Meieribyen. Skiptvet was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 .-Name:...

, Trøgstad

Trøgstad

Trøgstad is a municipality in Østfold county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Skjønhaug. The municipality is divided into the parishes of Trøgstad and Båstad...

, and Marker

Marker, Norway

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 in Østfold, and Aurskog-Høland

Aurskog-Høland

Aurskog-Høland is a municipality in Akershus county, Norway. It is part of the Romerike traditional region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Bjørkelangen.- Name :...

 in Akershus

Akershus

- Geography :The county is conventionally divided into the traditional districts Follo and Romerike, which fill the vast part of the county, as well as the small exclave west of Oslo that consists of Asker and Bærum...

.

Eidsberg was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt

Formannskapsdistrikt

Formannskapsdistrikt was the name for a Norwegian local self-government districts put into force in 1838. This system of municipality was created in a bill approved by the Storting and signed into law by King Carl Johan on 14 January 1837...

). The town of Mysen was separated from Eidsberg to form a municipality of its own on 1 July 1920, but it was merged back into the municipality of Eidsberg on 1 January 1961.

Name

The municipality (originally the parish

Parish

A parish is a territorial unit historically under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of one parish priest, who might be assisted in his pastoral duties by a curate or curates - also priests but not the parish priest - from a more or less central parish church with its associated organization...

) is named after the old Eidsberg farm (Old Norse

Old Norse

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: Eiðsberg), since the first church was built here. The first element is the genitive case

Genitive case

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 of eið which means "path around a waterfall

Waterfall

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" and the last element is berg which means "mountain

Mountain

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". Prior to 1847, the name was spelled "Edsberg".

Coat-of-arms

The coat-of-arms

Coat of arms

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 is from modern times. They were granted on 16 March 1962. The arms show a bear

Bear

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, which is taken as a symbol for Arnbjørn Jonsson, who lived in Eidsberg. The bear is canting

Canting arms

Canting arms are heraldic bearings that represent the bearer's name in a visual pun or rebus. The term cant came into the English language from Anglo-Norman cant, meaning song or singing, from Latin cantāre, and English cognates include canticle, chant, accent, incantation and recant.Canting arms –...

 for Bjørn . He was a well known warrior in during the civil war era

Civil war era in Norway

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 under King Håkon Håkonsson

Haakon IV of Norway

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, until his death in 1240.

Twin towns — Sister cities

Eidsberg is twinned

Town twinning

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 with the following towns: - Brønderslev, Region Nordjylland

Region Nordjylland

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, Denmark

Denmark

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 - Kasese

Kasese

Kasese is a town in Western Uganda, lying north of Lake George. It originally grew around the copper mine at Kilembe, while attention later turned to cobalt mining. It is the 'chief town' of Kasese District and the district headquarters are located there...

, Kasese District

Kasese District

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, Uganda

Uganda

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 - Nässjö

Nässjö

Nässjö is a locality and the seat of Nässjö Municipality, Jönköping County, Sweden with 16,463 inhabitants in 2005.-History:Nässjö was for a long time only a rural village with agriculture as the dominant occupation. The turning point was the construction of the Swedish railway system. The southern...

, Jönköping County

Jönköping County

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, Sweden

Sweden

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External links

• Municipal fact sheet from Statistics Norway
  Statistics Norway
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