Ski, Norway

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Ski, Norway

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 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....
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....
. It is part of the traditional region

Districts of Norway

Norway is divided into a number of districts. Many districts have deep historical roots, and only partially coincide with today's administrative units of counties of Norway and municipalities of Norway....
of Follo

Follo

Follo is one of three Districts of Norway in the county of Akershus, Norway. It is located between Oslo and ?stfold and includes the southwestern part of the county's area east of Oslo, namely the municipalities Frogn, Oppeg?rd, Ski, Norway, Vestby, ?s, Nesodden, and Enebakk ....
. 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 Ski. Ski was separated from the municipality of Kråkstad

Kråkstad

Kr?kstad is a village and former municipality in Ski, Norway municipality, Akershus county, Norway.The parish of Kraakstad was established as a municipality January 1, 1838 ....
on 1 July 1931 to form a separate municipality. The rest of Kråkstad was merged into Ski on 1 January 1964.

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 Ski 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....
: Skeiði).

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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 Akershus

Akershus

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

Districts of Norway

Follo

List of cities in Norway

Kråkstad

General information

Name

The municipality (originally the parish

Parish

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....
: Skeiði). The word skeiði is a sideform to skeið which means "running track for horse racing

Horse racing

Horse racing is an equestrianism sport that has been practiced over the centuries; the chariot racing of Ancient Rome are an early example, as is the contest of the steeds of the god Odin and the giant Hrungnir in Norse mythology....
". Hence, it is not linked to the sport of skiing

Skiing

Snow skiing is a group of sports using skis as primary equipment. Skis are used in conjunction with ski boots that connect to the ski with use of a ski bindings....
.

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 19 December 1986. The arms are based on a logo used by the municipality since 1979. Since the name Ski is derived from the old Norse word meaning a field used for horse racing, the arms are 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....
. The arms show three silver horse

Horse

The horse is a hoofed mammal, a subspecies of one of seven extant species of the family Equidae. The horse has evolution of the horse over the past 45 to 55 million years from a small multi-toed creature into the large, odd-toed ungulate animal of today....
heads arranged in a triskelion

Triskelion

A triskelion or triskele is a symbol consisting of 3 #In human culture interlocked spirals, or three bent human legs, or any similar symbol with three protrusions and a threefold rotational symmetry....
on a blue background.

Geography

Ski is located southeast of Oslo

Oslo

is the Capital and largest List of cities in Norway in Norway.Metropolitan Oslo or the Greater Oslo Region makes up the third largest urban area in Scandinavia after Metropolitan Stockholm and Metropolitan Copenhagen....
. Ski has the administrative status of a town/city , and can be divided into a centre ("Ski Sentrum") surrounding Ski railroad station and the suburban/rural villages of Kråkstad

Kråkstad

Kr?kstad is a village and former municipality in Ski, Norway municipality, Akershus county, Norway.The parish of Kraakstad was established as a municipality January 1, 1838 ....
, Langhus

Langhus

Langhus is a village in the municipality of Ski, Norway in Norway with a population of about 13,000.Langhus includes the local areas of B?ler?sen, Vevelstad and Langhus....
, and Siggerud

Siggerud

Siggerud is a village in the municipality of Ski, Norway, Norway, just a few kilometres away from the border of the municipality of Oslo where most of Siggerud's population work....
. Ski is the trade and commercial centre of the Follo

Follo

Shopping mall

File:Nordstrom wing , Pentagon City Mall.jpgA shopping mall or shopping centre is a building or set of buildings which contain retail units, with interconnecting walkways enabling visitors to easily walk from unit to unit....
containing shops, cafés, and a cinema

Movie theater

A movie theater, movie theatre, picture theatre, film theater or cinema is a venue, usually a building, for viewing film ....
complex. The mall was built in 1994, replacing some of the oldest buildings of Ski centre. Outside of the centre, Ski is largely an area of forestry

Forestry

Forestry is the art and science of managing forests, tree plantations, and related natural resources. Silviculture, a related science, involves the growing and tending of trees and forests....
and agriculture

Agriculture

Agriculture refers to the production of food and goods through farming and forestry. Agriculture was the key development that led to the rise of civilization, with the animal husbandry of domestication animals and plants creating food surpluses that enabled the development of more Population density and Social stratification societies....
. Ski can be described as an exurb

Commuter town

A commuter town is an urban community that is primarily residential, from which most of the workforce commuting out to earn their livelihood. Many commuter towns act as Suburb of a nearby metropolis that workers travel to daily, and many suburbs are commuter towns....
of Oslo.

Ski, as most of Follo, lies on ancient rock foundations. Throughout the local area from east to west there is a moraine

Moraine

A moraine is any glacially formed accumulation of unconsolidated glacial debris which can occur in currently glaciated and formerly glaciated regions, such as those areas acted upon by a past ice age....
left from the Ice age

Ice age

The general term "ice age" or, more precisely, "glacial age" denotes a geological period of long-term reduction in the temperature of the Earth's surface and atmosphere, resulting in an expansion of continental ice sheets, polar ice sheets and alpine glaciers....
. Stone age

Stone Age

The Stone Age is a broad prehistory time period during which humans widely used Rock for toolmaking.Stone tools were made from a variety of different kinds of stone....
tools are still being found when fields are ploughed, and Ski has more than 300 registered ancient historical artifacts

Artifact (archaeology)

In archaeology, an artifact or artefact is any object made or modified by a human archaeological culture, and often one later recovered by some archaeological endeavor....
. Remains from the Iron age

Iron Age

In archaeology, the Iron Age was the stage in the development of any people in which tools and weapons whose main ingredient was iron were prominent....
can also be seen here. In Kråkstad and Ski are two stone churches from medieval times.

External links

from Statistics Norway
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....
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