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Eidsberg was a municipality in Østfold county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality was the town of Mysen. In 2020, Eidsberg was absorbed into the Indre Østfold municipality.

Key facts

Kommune.name
Eidsberg
Kommune.former
yes
Kommune.idnumber
0125
Kommune.county
Østfold
Kommune.district
Smaalenene
Kommune.capital
Mysen
Kommune.demonym
Eidsberging
Kommune.language
Bokmål
Kommune.coatofarms
Eidsberg komm.svg
Kommune.munwebpage
www.eidsberg.kommune.no
Kommune.mayor
Knut Jørgen Herland
Kommune.mayor_party
Sp
Kommune.mayor_as_of
2003
Kommune.area_rank
311
Kommune.area_total_km2
236
Kommune.area_land_km2
229
Kommune.area_water_percent
0.07
Kommune.population_as_of
2004

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Eidsberg was a municipality in Østfold county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality was the town of Mysen. In 2020, Eidsberg was absorbed into the Indre Østfold municipality.

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

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Eidsberg Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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