Hurdal
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| County | Akershus | |
| District | Romerike | |
| Municipality | NO-0239 | |
| Administrative centre | Hurdal | |
| Mayor (2003) | Jorunn Larsen Glosli (SV) | |
| Official language form | Bokmål | |
| Area - Total - Land - Percentage |
Ranked 284 285 km² 261 km² 0.09 % |
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| Population - Total (2004) - Percentage - Change (10 years) - Density |
Ranked 292 2,679 0.06 % 5.4 % 10/km² |
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| www.hurdal.kommune.no |
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Hurdal is a municipality in the county of Akershus, Norway. It is located about 70 km north of Oslo, along the lake "Hurdalsjøen". About 2 km north of the centre "Auto'n", there's a ski resort.
[edit] The name
The name (Norse Urðardalr and Hurðardalr) is an old district name. (The name of the church site is Gjøing.) The first element is the genitive case of a disappered rivername (later called Gjøingelva 'Gjøing river'), probably *Urð 'stony river' (from urð f 'scree'). (The sideform Hurðardalr has an addition of a false /h/.) The last element is dalr m 'valley, dale'.
Until 1918 the name was written "Hurdalen".
[edit] Coat-of-arms
The coat-of-arms is from modern times (1988). It shows a cone of spruce.
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Asker | Aurskog-Høland | Bærum | Eidsvoll | Enebakk | Fet | Frogn | Gjerdrum | Hurdal | Lørenskog | Nannestad | Nes | Nesodden | Nittedal | Oppegård | Rælingen | Skedsmo | Ski | Sørum | Ullensaker | Vestby | Ås |
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