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Hurdal kommune
—  Municipality  —
Coat of arms of Hurdal kommune
Coat of arms
Official logo of Hurdal kommune
Akershus within
Norway
Hurdal within Akershus
Hurdal within Akershus
Coordinates: 60°24′57″N 11°0′31″E / 60.41583, 11.00861
Country Norway
County Akershus
District Romerike
Municipality ID NO-0239
Administrative centre Hurdal
Government
 - Mayor (2003) Jorunn Larsen Glosli (SV)
Area (Nr. ||} Norway is divided into 19 administrative regions called counties ( fylker, singular fylke) and 430 municipalities ( kommuner, cf Norway ( Norwegian: Norge ( Bokmål) or Noreg ( Nynorsk) officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Constitutional ||-||} Norway is divided into 19 administrative regions, called counties ( Norwegian: singular fylke, plural fylker ( Bokmål is a county in Norway, bordering Hedmark, Oppland, Buskerud, Oslo and Østfold. Norway is divided into a number of traditional Districts Many districts have deep historical roots and only partially coincide with today's administrative units of counties Romerike is a traditional district located north-east of Oslo, in what is today south-eastern Norway. ISO 3166-2NO is an ISO standard which defines Geocodes it is the subset of ISO 3166-2 which applies to Norway. The Socialist Left Party ( Sosialistisk Venstreparti or SV is a Norwegian Political party founded in 1975 Area is a Quantity expressing the two- Dimensional size of a defined part of a Surface, typically a region bounded by a closed Curve. 284 in Norway)
 - Total 285 km² (110 sq mi)
 - Land 261 km² (100. Square Kilometre ( US spelling square kilometer) symbol km2, is a decimal multiple of the SI unit of The square mile is an imperial and US unit of Area equal the area of a square of one statute mile. 8 sq mi)
Population (2004)
 - Total 2,679
 - Density 10/km² (25. Population density (in agriculture standing stock and Standing crop) is a measurement of Population per unit area or unit volume 9/sq mi)
 - Change (10 years) 5. 4 %
 - Rank in Norway 292
Time zone CET (UTC+1)
 - Summer (DST) CEST (UTC+2)
Official language form Bokmål
Demonym Hurdaling or Hurdøling[1]
Data from Statistics Norway
Website: www.hurdal.kommune.no

Hurdal is a municipality in the county of Akershus, Norway. Central European Time ( CET) is one of the names of the Time zone that is 1 hour ahead of Coordinated Universal Time. UTC+1 is used in the following locations Central European Time West Africa Time Western European Summer Time Daylight saving time ( DST Central European Summer Time ( CEST) is one of the names of UTC+2 Time zone, 2 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time. UTC+2 corresponds to the following Time zones Eastern European Time Egypt Standard Time Central Africa Time Norwegian ( norsk) is a North Germanic Language spoken primarily in Norway, where it is an official language Bokmål (lit "book language" or Dano-Norwegian is the most commonly used of the two official Norwegian written Standard languages the other A demonym or gentilic is a word that denotes the members of a People or the inhabitants of a place Norway ( Norwegian: Norge ( Bokmål) or Noreg ( Nynorsk) officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Constitutional

Hurdal was established as a municipality January 1, 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt). Formannskaps-distrikt was the name for a Norwegian local self-government districts put into force in 1838. Feiring separated from Hurdal January 1, 1870. Feiring is an area in the Eidsvoll municipality of Norway. It has around 1000 inhabitants

It is located about 70 km north of Oslo, along the lake "Hurdalsjøen". (called Christiania from 1624 to 1878 and Kristiania from 1878 to 1924 is the Capital and largest city of Norway. About 2 km north of the centre "Auto'n", there's a ski resort.

The name

The name (Norse Urðardalr and Hurðardalr) is an old district name. The North Germanic languages or Scandinavian languages make up one of the three branches of the Germanic languages, a sub-family of the Indo-European languages (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'). Scree, also called talus and detritic cone, is a term given to broken rock that appears at the bottom of Crags mountain Cliffs or (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".

Famous People

Coat-of-arms

The coat-of-arms is from modern times (1988). It shows a cone of spruce. Spruce refers to Trees of the genus Picea, a genus of about 35 species of Coniferous Evergreen trees in the Family Pinaceae


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