Børsa
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Børsa is a village and a former municipality in Sør-Trøndelag
Sør-Trøndelag
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 county, Norway
Norway
Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

. The former municipality of Børsa encompassed most of the northern part of the present-day municipality of Skaun
Skaun
Skaun is a municipality in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. It is part of the Orkdalen region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Børsa. Other villages include Buvik, Eggkleiva, Melby, Skaun, and Viggja....

, and historically also included the Geitastrand
Geitastrand
Geitastrand is a former municipality in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. The municipality of Geitastrand encompassed the coast along the Trondheimsfjord from Orkanger to Agdenes. The district is thinly populated, and has no significant villages. Byneset in Trondheim is located across the Korsfjord...

 area in Orkdal
Orkdal
Orkdal is a municipality in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. It is part of the Orkdalen region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Orkanger. Other villages in the municipality include Kjøra, Geitastrand, Gjølme, Thamshavn, Fannrem, Vormstad, Svorkmo, and...

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The village of Børsa is also the administrative centre of the municipality of Skaun
Skaun
Skaun is a municipality in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. It is part of the Orkdalen region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Børsa. Other villages include Buvik, Eggkleiva, Melby, Skaun, and Viggja....

. The 1.11 square kilometres (274.3 acre) village has a population (2009) of 1,213. The population density
Population density
Population density is a measurement of population per unit area or unit volume. It is frequently applied to living organisms, and particularly to humans...

 is 1093 PD/km2. Børsa Church
Børsa Church
Børsa Church is a parish church in the municipality of Skaun in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. It is located in the village of Børsa. The wooden building was designed by the architect Christian Heinrich Grosch, and it was completed in 1857....

 is located in the village, just north of the European route E39
European route E39
E 39 is the designation of a 1330 km long north-south road in Norway and Denmark, running from Klett just south of Trondheim to Aalborg, via Orkanger, Vinjeøra, Halsa ... Straumsnes, Krifast, Batnfjordsøra, Molde ... Vestnes, Skodje, Ålesund ... Volda ... Nordfjordeid ... Sandane, Førde,...

 highway.

History

The municipality of Børsa was established 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...

). On 1 January 1890, the municipality was divided into two: Børseskognen
Skaun
Skaun is a municipality in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. It is part of the Orkdalen region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Børsa. Other villages include Buvik, Eggkleiva, Melby, Skaun, and Viggja....

 (population: 1,410) in the south and Børsa (population: 2,300) in the north. On 1 January 1905, the area of northwest of the Orkdalsfjord became the new municipality of Geitastrand
Geitastrand
Geitastrand is a former municipality in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. The municipality of Geitastrand encompassed the coast along the Trondheimsfjord from Orkanger to Agdenes. The district is thinly populated, and has no significant villages. Byneset in Trondheim is located across the Korsfjord...

 (population: 674) and the area southeast of the fjord remained as Børsa with a population of 1,420. On 1 January 1965, Børsa, Skaun
Skaun
Skaun is a municipality in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. It is part of the Orkdalen region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Børsa. Other villages include Buvik, Eggkleiva, Melby, Skaun, and Viggja....

, and Buvik
Buvik
Buvik is a former municipality in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. The administrative centre was located in the village of Buvika. Buvik encompasses the extreme northeastern part of the present-day municipality of Skaun...

 were merged together to form the new, larger municipality of Skaun
Skaun
Skaun is a municipality in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. It is part of the Orkdalen region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Børsa. Other villages include Buvik, Eggkleiva, Melby, Skaun, and Viggja....

. Before the merger, Børsa had a population of 1,476.
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