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Eidsberg is a municipality

Municipalities of Norway

||}Norway is divided into 19 administrative regions, called county , and 430 municipality . The capital city Oslo is considered both a county and a municipality....
in Østfold

Østfold

is a Counties of Norway in southeastern Norway, bordering Akershus and southwestern Sweden , while Buskerud and Vestfold is on the other side of Viken....
county

Counties of Norway

||-||}Norway is divided into 19 subnational, called county . The counties form the primary first-level subdivisions of Norway and are further divided into 431 Municipalities of Norway ....
, Norway

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a constitutional monarchy in Northern Europe that occupies the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula....
. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town

List of cities in Norway

This is a list of cities in Norway.The Norwegian name for city is by. Cities were formerly categorized as kj?pstad or ladested , each with special city rights....
of Mysen

Mysen

Mysen is a town in the municipalities of Norway of Eidsberg in the counties of Norway of ?stfold in Norway.Between 1920 and 1961, it was a separate municipality....
. Neighboring municipalities are Rakkestad

Rakkestad

Rakkestad is a Municipalities of Norway in ?stfold Counties of Norway, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Rakkestad....
, Askim

Askim

is a List of cities in Norway and a Municipalities of Norway in ?stfold Counties of Norway, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Askim....
, Skiptvet

Skiptvet

Skiptvet is a Municipalities of Norway in ?stfold Counties of Norway, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Meieribyen....
, Trøgstad

Trøgstad

Tr?gstad is a Municipalities of Norway in ?stfold Counties of Norway, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Skj?nhaug....
, and Marker

Marker

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in Østfold, and Aurskog-Høland

Aurskog-Høland

Aurskog-H?land is a Municipalities of Norway in Akershus Counties of Norway, Norway. It is part of the Romerike Districts of Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Bj?rkelangen....
in Akershus

Akershus

is a Counties of Norway in Norway, bordering Hedmark, Oppland, Buskerud, Oslo and ?stfold; it has also a short border with Sweden . Akershus is the second largest county by population after Oslo, with more than half a million inhabitants....
.

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

Formannskapsdistrikt

Formannskaps-distrikt was the name for a Norway 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 Charles XIV John of Sweden 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.

municipality (originally the parish

Parish

A parish is a local church; it is an administrative unit typically found in Roman Catholic, Anglican, United Methodist, and Presbyterianism churches....
) is named after the old Eidsberg farm (Old Norse

Old Norse

Old Norse is a North Germanic languages that was spoken by inhabitants of Scandinavia and inhabitants of their overseas settlements during the Viking Age, until about 1300....
: Eiðsberg), since the first church was built here.

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Eidsberg is a municipality

Municipalities of Norway

||}Norway is divided into 19 administrative regions, called county , and 430 municipality . The capital city Oslo is considered both a county and a municipality....
in Østfold

Østfold

is a Counties of Norway in southeastern Norway, bordering Akershus and southwestern Sweden , while Buskerud and Vestfold is on the other side of Viken....
county

Counties of Norway

||-||}Norway is divided into 19 subnational, called county . The counties form the primary first-level subdivisions of Norway and are further divided into 431 Municipalities of Norway ....
, Norway

Norway

List of cities in Norway

This is a list of cities in Norway.The Norwegian name for city is by. Cities were formerly categorized as kj?pstad or ladested , each with special city rights....
of Mysen

Mysen

Rakkestad

Rakkestad is a Municipalities of Norway in ?stfold Counties of Norway, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Rakkestad....
, Askim

Askim

is a List of cities in Norway and a Municipalities of Norway in ?stfold Counties of Norway, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Askim....
, Skiptvet

Skiptvet

Skiptvet is a Municipalities of Norway in ?stfold Counties of Norway, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Meieribyen....
, Trøgstad

Trøgstad

Tr?gstad is a Municipalities of Norway in ?stfold Counties of Norway, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Skj?nhaug....
, and Marker

Marker

Aurskog-Høland

Akershus

Formannskapsdistrikt

General information

Name

The municipality (originally the parish

Parish

Old Norse

Genitive case

In grammar, the genitive case or possessive case is the grammatical case that marks a noun as modifying another noun. It often marks a noun as being the possessor of another noun but it can also indicate various relationships other than possession; certain verbs may take argument in the genitive case; and it may have adverbial uses ....
of eið which means "path around a waterfall

Waterfall

A waterfall is usually a geology geologic formation resulting from water, often in the form of a stream, flowing over an erosion-resistant rock formation that forms a nickpoint, or sudden break in elevation....
" and the last element is berg which means "mountain

Mountain

A mountain is a landform that stretches above the surrounding land in a limited area usually in the form of a peak. A mountain is generally steeper than a hill....
". Prior to 1847, the name was spelled "Edsberg".

Coat-of-arms

The coat-of-arms

Coat of arms

A coat of arms, more properly called an armorial achievement, armorial bearings or often just arms for short, in European tradition, is a design belonging to a particular person and used by them in a wide variety of ways....
is from modern times. They were granted on 16 March 1962. The arms show a bear

Bear

Bears are mammals of the family Ursidae. Bears are classified as caniforms, or doglike carnivorans, with the pinnipeds being their closest living relatives....
, which is taken as a symbol for Arnbjørn Jonsson, who lived in Eidsberg. The bear is canting

Canting arms

Canting arms is a technique used in European heraldry whereby the name of the individual or community represented in a coat of arms is "translated" into a visual pun or rebus....
for Bjørn . He was a well known warrior in during the civil war era

Civil war era in Norway

The Civil war era of Norway history is a term used for the period between 1130 and 1240 in the history of Norway. During this time, a series of civil wars were fought between rival kings and pretenders to the throne of Norway....
under King Håkon Håkonsson

Haakon IV of Norway

Haakon Haakonsson , also called Haakon the Old, was List of Norwegian monarchs of Norway from 1217 to 1263. Under his rule, medieval Norway reached its peak....
, until his death in 1240.

Sister cities

Eidsberg is twinned

Town twinning

Town twinning, also known as sister cities, is a concept whereby towns or city in geographically and politically distinct areas are paired, with the goal of fostering human contact and cultural links between their inhabitants....
with the following towns: - Brønderslev, Region Nordjylland

Region Nordjylland

Region Nordjylland is an administrative region of Denmark established on January 1, 2007 as part of the 2007 Danish Municipal Reform, which replaced the traditional counties of Denmark with five larger regions....
, Denmark

Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in northern Europe and the senior member of the Kingdom of Denmark. It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries....
- Kasese

Kasese

Kasese is a town in western Uganda, lying north of Lake George . It originally grew around the copper mining at Kilembe, while attention later turned to cobalt mining....
, Kasese District

Kasese District

Kasese is a Districts of Uganda in southwestern Uganda and was formed in 1974, named after its main municipal centre, Kasese. The district is located along the Equator and borders the districts of Kabarole and Bundibugyo in the north, Lake George and Kamwenge district in the east, Bushenyi district and Lake Edward in the south and the Democ...
, Uganda

Uganda

The Republic of Uganda is a landlocked country in East Africa. It is bordered on the east by Kenya, on the north by Sudan, on the west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, on the southwest by Rwanda, and on the south by Tanzania....
- Nässjö

Nässjö

N?ssj? is a town in Sm?land, Sweden, and the seat of N?ssj? Municipality in J?nk?ping County. It has a population of 16,463 .N?ssj? was for a long time only a rural village with agriculture as the dominant occupation....
, Jönköping County

Jönköping County

J?nk?ping County is a Counties of Sweden or l?n in southern Sweden. It borders the counties of Halland County, V?stra G?taland County, ?sterg?tland County, Kalmar County and Kronoberg County....
, Sweden

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic countries on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden has land borders with Norway to the west and Finland to the northeast, and it is connected to Denmark by the ?resund Bridge in the south....

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Statistics Norway

Statistics Norway is the Norway statistics bureau. It was established in 1876.Relying on a staff of about 1000, Statistics Norway releases more than 800 Norwegian statistical publications every year on its web site....