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Virum
Sign in to saveVirum is a mostly residential, suburban neighbourhood in Lyngby-Taarbæk Municipality, located on both sides of Lyngby Kongevej, approximately 15 km north of central Copenhagen, Denmark. The neighbourhood is bordered by Lake Furesø to the west, Holte in Rudersdal Municipality to the north, Brede to the east and Kongens Lyngby and Sorgenfri to the south.
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- Virum
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- Neighbourhood
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- Virum Square
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- Denmark Capital Region
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- above
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- Location in the Capital Region of Denmark
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- Denmark
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- Capital Region
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- Municipality
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- Lyngby-Taarbæk
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- +1
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Virum is a mostly residential, suburban neighbourhood in Lyngby-Taarbæk Municipality, located on both sides of Lyngby Kongevej, approximately 15 km north of central Copenhagen, Denmark. The neighbourhood is bordered by Lake Furesø to the west, Holte in Rudersdal Municipality to the north, Brede to the east and Kongens Lyngby and Sorgenfri to the south.
==History== thumb|200px|Virum (Wyrum) seen on a map from 1780 The village of Virum is first mentioned in a papal letter from 1186 but is no doubt considerably older. The name "an open place which is easy to defend" ( vigi: "easily defendable place" and -rum: open place). In the letter, Pope Clement III gives the Virum as well as many other villages in the area to Bishop Absalon. Absalon soon ceded the villages to the Bishopric of Roskilde.